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EAT Aquafish & Think BLUEconomy

EGO-CreaNET organizes the meeting:
AQUACULTURE INNOVATION
open debate about the project proposal
EAT Aquafish & Think BLUEconomy

14 December 2016

Incubatore Universitario Fiorentino, via Madonna del Piano 6 – 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI)

SKIPE ADDRESS OF THE CONSENSUS MEETING :   marcello.traversi

Preliminary programme
09:00 ÷ 11:00   workshop
11:00 ÷ 13:00   Skype conference with foreign sites

The time table of the consensus meeifng via skipe is the following :
H,.From 11.00-12.00 –  for speaking about WP1,WP2,WP4,WP6
H,.From 12.00-13.00 – for speaking about WP3/1  and WP3/2
H,.From 13.00-14.00  – For Speaking about  WP5

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Aquaculture has a great growing of consumer expectations focused to give effective solutions for world people future nutrition. An aquaculture development can free the market from super-intensive overfishing in the sea.

In spite of this challenge many members of the public and policy management are not really understand how to improve sustainable seafood sources of the aquaculture innovation, as a conscious consumer-driven development and safe and sustainable foods.

VISION. The increasing diffusion of aquaculture production in the world indirectly acts as a deterrent to the capture of fishing in the sea, promoting a greater safety of the environment and helping to maintain biodiversity. The wild-fish cannot however meet the growing needs of seafoods, because intensive fishing can cause an unsustainable reduction of the fish in the sea.

The meeting organized by Egocreanet will advance the understanding on innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood. The aim is to develop the project proposal “EAT-BLUE: EAT Aquafish & Think BLUEconomy” to be submitted on the Horizon 2020 call BG-08-2017 “Innovative sustainable solutions for improving the safety and dietary properties of seafood” with deadline 4 February 2017.

The meeting will discuss the following topics and objectives, which are the basis for the definition of strategy and models for the development of fish production in aquaculture, ensuring environmental, social and economic sustainability and benefits:

  • eco-sustainable development of production processes,
  • diffusion of technological practices to differentiate productions, increasing the number of farmed species,
  • ability to realize innovative compositions of feed, integrating f microalgae for herbivorous fish and proteins from insects and worms for carnivorous fish, in order to decrease the use of traditional fish’s flour and oil,
  • health and veterinary hygienic aspects of fish welfare, as they affect the quality of the fish and consequently the well-being and human health,
  • understanding of consumers on importance of producing fish and shellfish in aquaculture, freshwater or seawater, in order to mitigate the unsustainable exploitation of fish in the sea.

 

The proposal ” EAT Aquafish & Think BLUEconomy ” will develop an aquaculture innovation, through demonstration for the enhancement of viable and profitable commercial aquaculture production in the Europe aiming at:

  • foster a further extension and support knowledge innovation for aquaculture industry/sme’s development;
  • analyze and compile and test the nutritional composition of potential new feed ingredients (microalgae and insects proteins, healt-probiotics ..etc) for fish meal and fry-feed;
  • improve development of new eco-friendly technologies for fresh-water acquaculture and marine-culture;
  • enhance pilot design and experiments for diversify the aquaculture products;
  • improve consumer perception and awareness of new fish new species in the market;
  • protect the marine environment & maritime heritage and prevent & combat pollution;
  • protect, secure and enhance the marine and coastal environment;
  • improve accessibility and connectivity;
  • improve safety & security at sea and promote blue growth & job creation. Promote entrepreneurship and innovation ;
  • create a socially inclusive and sustainable model of regional development.

For more info to participate to the Egocreanet meeting write to: <EGOCREANET2016@gmail.com>.

Parterns & stakeholders

 

NOTES for the partners:

At the consensus meeting we look to share and approval the key innovation action of the EAT-BLUE, proposal  (*) and to select the more active partners .

(*)-  Key conceps of the AI – EAT BLUE Project :

 

The EU’s Blue Growth Strategy identifies aquaculture — the farming of fish, as a sector which could boost economic growth across Europe and bring social benefits through new jobs. In contrast with other regions of the world, aquaculture production is stagnating in the EU, while imports are rising. At the same time, there is a growing gap between the amount of seafood consumed in the EU, and the amount caught from wild fisheries. The overall methodology of the relevant activities of “EAT-BLUE”  project are focused to give a contribute tho close this gap in the important role to advance in food security as well as its economic growth and favouring the development of environmentally responsible Eu- aquaculture. So that the overall methodology impacts vary with the production of the following distinguishing innovation activities:

1) building a pilot ptoduct of special microalgae to develop algal oil for higher quality of  fish – feed;

2) grow up a prototipe of functional probiotics for fish healt that will be tested on most popular seafood species, such as salmon, sea bass and sea bream, and

3) to make acquaculture more sustainable by means increase productivity and profitability, through  innovation and first market replication of some fish-species ( as pulp vulgaris , greather amberjack or other finfishes ) for improving farming methods and management techniques, tacking into account Regional  locations and local environmental conditions
I hope in your interactive cooperation : Paolo Manzelli (EGOCREANET) (335/6760004)  12/12/2016 Firenze

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