Balfegó bluefin tuna ranching

Balfegó and AZTI join forces to promote research and recovery projects for bluefin tuna fishing and aquaculture

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Friday, October 15, 2021, 07:00 (GMT + 9)

    • The technology center and the company sign a collaboration agreement to advance the sustainability of this species and the application of artificial intelligence in production processes
    • The agreement provides for the construction of a joint R&D unit that will define an annual review innovation plan.

The AZTI technology center, an expert in the value chain of the sea and food, and Balfegó, a specialized company and world leader in catching, feeding, studying and marketing bluefin tuna, have signed an agreement of collaboration to jointly promote research, development and valorization of new products related to the aquaculture of this species in the open sea.

Balfegó bluefin tuna vessel

The agreement will allow both organizations to exchange their deep knowledge and share human resources, technologies, scientific instruments and technical infrastructures for the development of different projects. Among other aspects, the agreement foresees to delve into the sustainability and digitization of the bluefin tuna production processes, the quality of the final product, and the authentication and traceability, points in which Balfegó has been a pioneer in the fishing sector. Likewise, this collaboration will also focus on the commercial development of new products and environmental sustainability, as well as research and the application of artificial intelligence in the areas of bluefin tuna fishing and aquaculture.

The agreement also provides for the start-up of a joint R & D & I unit whose main function will be to define an innovation plan where the priority lines of research for the coming months will be defined.

“At Balfegó we work to guarantee the continuity of bluefin tuna for future generations, hence we have not found anyone better than AZTI, a world benchmark in tuna research, to share our knowledge and develop R&D initiatives that benefit the fishing, the species and the quality of our product” indicates Juan Serrano, general director of Balfegó.

For its part, in addition to joint work for the sustainability of the species, AZTI highlights the creation of value and the increase in competitiveness that this alliance will entail in the sector.

According to Rogelio Pozo, CEO of AZTI, “transforming our knowledge into business opportunities and betting on projects with companies as the main way to transfer our scientific results to the industrial fabric is one of the priority lines of action of AZTI's strategy, a technological center that is characterized both by the excellence of its research activity and by its proximity to the business reality”.

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