The IDREEM project is investigating the potential for Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) in Europe, the project has seven pilot sites distributed in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea regions of Europe. Established fish farm companies have worked alongside local research organizations, who have provided technical and scientific support to the farmers, with the aim of testingIMTA…
Italian IDREEM partners Chiara Cantore (University of Genoa) and Roberto Co (AQUA s.rl.) were recently invited to present the IDREEM project and the IMTA model applied in Italy in the TV program “Itinerari di Liguria”. Chiara explained how the approach of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture can help increasing the environmental and economic sustainability of the Italian…
Last month in Oban, the Scottish Marine Science Association (SAMS) held a workshop that brought together Europe’s leading seaweed research and development projects. European Seaweed Production and Marketability workshop presented the activities of five different European projects: AT~SEA, EnAlgae, IDREEM, SeaBioPlas and Atlantic Blue Tech. It was organized in conjunction with the GlobalSeaweed network and the Biomarine…
IDREEM project was presented at the EXPO Milan on June 16th, in the framework of the event UNIGE @ EXPO, where selected projects carried out by the University of Genoa regarding food were presented at the Regione Liguria stand. Idreem partners Mariachiara Chiantore and Danilo Pecorino showed the project background, main objectives and some results.…
The European Commission DG Environment has recently published a report about sustainable aquaculture, the latest of its series Future Science for Environment Policy. The document presents an overview of research into aquaculture’s impacts and how it could develop in harmony with environmental goals. Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture is mentioned by the report as one of the measures to achieve…
IDREEM partners Seawave Fisheries and Marine & Environmental Research Lab have deployed green ormers / abalone (Haliotis tuberculata) at Seawave farm in Cyprus. They were deployed in 3 sizes in hanged Ortac baskets from the sea bass cages where they will be fed with macroalgae (mainly Ulva sp.). Some were also put in juvenile sea…