We bid farewell to 2021 with a new chapter of a Low Trophic Life webinar focused on the possibility to feed abalone with macroalgae in an IMTA system. As part of AquaVitae project, Ben Opara delivered his master’s thesis in Marine Biotechnology earlier this year at UiT The Arctic University
Arapaima gigas is one of the world’s largest freshwater fish. It is a promising candidate for freshwater aquaculture development in Brazil due to its high growth rate and meat quality. But the lack of reproductive control in captivity has limited the expansion of Arapaima farming. Can
Low Trophic Life Webinar: “Enhancing oyster production with artificial intelligence & new protocols”
The hurdles facing the oyster industry in Scandinavia are mainly related to the occurrence of multiple oyster species in the sea (of which only one is desired for production) and the need for suitable collectors for small scale, emerging industries. AquaVitae aims to help the industry tackle these hurdles. In
21 May, 2021
PhD student Emmanuel Falade has worked with Wild Coast Abalone, the 3rd largest abalone farm in South Africa and AquaVitae partner, to optimise the co-production of abalone and macroalgae in integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) systems. In this live webinar, he gave an insight into some preliminary
25 March, 2021
Photos in collage by Kristina Svedberg, and submarine mussel lines by Daniel Taylor, DTU. How many mussels can you spot in the photo? Fouling is what hides them: all the species that latch to any surface in the ocean, including the (hidden) mussels in the image. As
19 February, 2021
AquaVitae case study on “Offshore macroalgae cultivation” celebrated a stakeholder workshop with the objective of: technically demonstrate offshore and sustainable seaweed cultivation by optimised logistics,re-use of aquaculture equipment,optimal site selection,development of bio-secure storage methods for seaweed to use as feed for abalone. The event took place on February 10th from 13:00 to
A new chapter of the Low Trophic Life series focused on the life-cycle assessment (LCA) of low-trophic species aquaculture. Jean-Baptiste Thomas is a postdoc at KTH in Sweden. He presented a life cycle assessment of low trophic species in aquaculture, with a particular focus on seaweed. His
26 January, 2021
AquaVitae series Low Trophic Life second webinar was focused on experiments on IMTA carried out at UFSC combining seaweed, mullet, and shrimp cultivation in biofloc system – an IMTA approach. The recording of the webinar contains presentations by Esmeralda Chamorro and Mateus Martins. Chamorro presented the results
5 January, 2021
The first webinar in the AquaVitae series Low Trophic Life, “Seaweeds as key components in pond IMTA systems” took place on 26 November from 14:00-14:30 CET. Stefany Almeida Pereira is a marine biologist at Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) and with a master in aquaculture at the
An introduction to AquaVitae work and contributions to both Galway and Belèm Statements was part of a workshop by the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance (AORA) held in Iceland on the 22- 24 October. Download File: [AquaVitae_AORA_ Workshop_19]
16 October, 2019
Philip James, project coordinator, presented AquaVitae’s ambitions and expected outcomes in the EU EATIP Day at Aquaculture Europe, joining representatives of the European Commission, EATIP and sectoral stakeholders. The session was focused on new aquaculture value chains, especially those that include species from the lowest levels
