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GAIN - Green Aquaculture Intensification in Europe

Lead Institute SF Institute of Sea Fisheries
Involved Institutes FI Institute of Fisheries Ecology
Netcages for Atlantic Salmon production off the West coast of Ireland
© Thünen-Institut/Cornelia Kreiss
Floatable frame structure with nets (net cages) to produce Atlantic salmon off the West coast of Ireland. Through the black supply pipes, which are connected to an automatic feeding system, the feed is introduced into the net cages.

There are several reasons why aquaculture in Europe is only growing slowly. One reason is the low economic efficiency of several production system and an eco-intensification could improve it.

Background and Objective

GAIN (Green Aquaculture Intensification in Europe) aspires to facilitate the paradigm-shift of ecointensification in European aquaculture to meet the required annual growth in aquatic product volume (4.5%), by developing and validating innovative production tools and knowledge at end-user level, and consequently to market, while meeting environmental impact/climate-change related goals, and simultaneously increasing health and welfare for both farmed animals and consumers.

We will achieve this by focusing on

  • (i) the primary sector of aquaculture production, through improved feed design, and use of sensors and Big Data for precision aquaculture;
  • (ii) the secondary sector of production, through innovative approaches to re-use and valorisation of by-products and side-streams; and
  • (iii) analysis and proposals for policy improvements, to address the challenges of the circular economy.

We will evaluate the relative role of the various components, from the standpoints of economic impact, improved animal welfare, and environmental and social sustainability, in the eco-intensification of European aquaculture.

Target Group

Policy makers, Aquaculture Sector, Associations, Scientific Community and Public

Thünen-Contact

Dr. Ralf Döring

Telephone
+49 471 94460 378
ralf.doering@thuenen.de
SF Institute of Sea Fisheries

Involved Thünen-Partners

Involved external Thünen-Partners

Funding Body

  • European Union (EU)
    (international, öffentlich)

Duration

5.2018 - 10.2021

More Information

Funding program: EU – Horizon 2020 – Societal Challenge "Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy"
Project status: finished

Publications

  1. 0

    Kreiß C, Edebohls I, Brüning S, Döring R (2023) Green Aquaculture INtensification in Europe (GAIN). Bremerhaven: Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, 2 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/21a, DOI:10.3220/PB1678715731000

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn066117.pdf

  2. 1

    Kreiß C, Edebohls I, Brüning S, Döring R (2023) Ökologische Intensivierung der Aquakultur in Europa (GAIN). Bremerhaven: Thünen-Institut für Seefischerei, 2 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2023/21, DOI:10.3220/PB1678715269000

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn066116.pdf

Downloads

  • Project Brief: GAIN Cornelia Kreiss, Imke Edebohls, Simone Brüning, Ralf Döring (Project Brief 2023/21a): Green Aquaculture INtensification in Europe (GAIN) 563 KB
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