A new research paper about the development of integrated multi-trophic aquaculture in Europe was published last April by the Aquaculture Environment Interaction Journal. The paper was written by IDREEM coordinator Dr. Adam Hughes and Prof. Kenneth Black, (Scottish Association for Marine Science) and analyzes the trade-offs in implementing IMTA systems in Europe, in contrast with…
A series of briefing documents were published at the beginning of 2016 by Dr. Karen Alexander, SAMS, presenting facts, figures and results from her work in IDREEM, which are relevant for policy makers and regulators in the aquaculture sector. Stakeholder attitudes towards IMTA This briefing discusses stakeholder attitudes to IMTA across six European countries in which…
The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment has recently published an article by IDREEM partners Angelica Mendoza Beltran and Jeroen Guinée form Leiden University, titled “A pseudo-statistical approach to treat choice uncertainty: the example of partitioning allocation methods”. This publication treats methodological aspects of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) relevant for Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) LCAs. We proposed…
The third annual project meeting was held last October in Limassol, Cyprus, hosted by IDREEM partners Marine & Environmental Research Lab Ltd. and Seawave Fisheries Ltd. The three day meeting was an opportunity to discuss the achievements of the project so far and the activitities planned for the final year. During the meeting a delegation of local…
In an article published in Fish Farmer Magazine, Adam Hughes – SAMS, project coordinator, introduced some of the preliminary achievements and results obtained so far by the IDREEM project, now in its final year of activity. We have bridged that gap from experimentation to the beginnings of commercialisation and in doing that we’ve learnt a lot of lessons about…
Last week at AQUA srl in Genoa the first harvest of oysters grown with an IMTA farming system in the Ligurian Sea was successfully achieved. The oysters were initially deployed in June 2013 in lantern nets placed in close proximity of AQUA’s fish cages, feeding exclusively on the nutrients available in these oligotrophic waters and on…