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Spain participates in European project promoting sustainable aquaculture

SPAIN
Thursday, June 21, 2018, 22:10 (GMT + 9)

Through the Galician University Enterprise Foundation (FEUGA) and the Catalan technological centre Leitat, Spain participates in a European initiative aimed at developing innovative technology favouring sustainable production in aquaculture.

This is the Impaqt project (Intelligent Management System Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture), funded by the framework program of the European Commission 'Horizon 2020' with almost EUR 6 million.

The consortium is completed with another 19 participants from the academic and industrial fields of 11 different countries: Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Turkey, France, Portugal, the United Kingdom, Poland, Italy, Ireland and China.

As explained by FEUGA, conventional aquaculture does not adjust to the "increasing pressure" of the market or to the EU requirements in terms of profitability, optimal use of resources and environmental management. In this context, aquaculture from an IMTA approach (integrated multitrophic aquaculture) makes it possible to "more efficiently" farm different species in a shared space, connected by transfer of nutrients and energy through water, Europa Press reported.

Over the next three years, partners will work to develop sensors, data sources and an intelligent management platform for long-term monitoring of this promising concept of aquaculture. The Impaqt prototypes will be validated in six pilot countries (Scotland, the Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey and China).

"This project will facilitate an intensification of the EU aquaculture, with a minimum environmental impact and promising socio-economic results to allow a business model of circular economy", it has been indicated in FEUGA.

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