Blue Bio Database - Database of Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology Projects

The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

Acronym
Category
	Aquaculture
Title
Programme
Instrument (FP6) Contact Type (FP7) Strand (Interreg)
Theme (FP7) Activity Area (FP6) Regional Area (Interreg) Action (COST)
Specific Programme (FP7)
Funding source
Coordinator
Coordinator email
Coordinator institution
Institutions involved
	Coastal Research & Management
	Coastal Union Germany
	Kurzeme Planning Region
	Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology
	Maritime Institute in Gdansk
	SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth
	Swedish Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Engineering
	Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
	University of Tartu
Start year
End year
Funding (€)
Website
Summary	"One of the most serious challenges the Baltic Sea is facing is eutrophication, the enrichment of ecosystems by chemical nutrients. The objective of the project is to remove nutrients from the Baltic Sea Region by farming and harvesting blue mussels. This may be a stand-alone measure to counteract eutrophication, but can also become a business model for the feed industry and be used in symbiosis with fish farms. Mussels farmed in Baltic Sea waters are less appropriate for human consumption, mainly due to their small size. Instead, they are used in the feed industry to replace e.g. imported fish and soybean meal. Previous projects have shown that mussel farming in the Baltic Sea is feasible and beneficial to the environment. This project aims to proceed from pilot stage to real cases and build up an awareness and capacity concerning blue growth and mussel farming among the private and public sectors. The project will follow four focus farms and two test farms where environmental, legal, commercial and maritime spatial planning (MSP) issues are clarified. The partners cover the essential target groups needed for such a wide range of interest and competence areas including mussel farmers, authorities, related associations, research organisations and commercial partners. The main outputs of the project will be models and functional decision support tools based on environmental data collated from focus farms. Further outputs are four operational mussel farms, which contribute to business plans and manuals for mussel farmers in general. Different technology for farming mussels in BSR conditions will be tested and collated. A status report on legislation issues for mussel farming will be conducted."
Keywords
	Aquaculture development
	Bivalve
	Economy
	Mollusc
	Mussel
	Open sea aquaculture
	Restoration
	Shellfish
	Spatial planning
	Technology
Marine Region
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; Sound, Belt Sea or Transition Area (27.IIIb,c)
	ATLANTIC NORTHEAST (FAO Area 27); Skagerrak, Kattegat, Sound, Belt Sea and Baltic Sea; West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)

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