WP6 - Marine Technologies for Precision and Sustainable Aquaculture (TECMAPS)

The WP6 (TECMAPS) focuses all its efforts on developing tools, applications, and management strategies that contribute to precision and environmentally sustainable marine aquaculture. The tasks carried out in this working group revolve around two main areas. First, to develop technologies that enable better real-time monitoring and supervision of facilities, based on sensor networks, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Secondly, to create tools for assessing, modeling, and mitigating environmental risks and interactions, from site selection to product traceability. This working group encompasses both cutting-edge engineering applications for open-sea aquaculture operations and data analysis and modeling with state-of-the-art techniques for environmental and socioeconomic applications. Our mission is to foster a more sustainable aquaculture that is resilient to global change.

Objectives

Objective 6.1

Technologically enhance Real-Time Monitoring and Supervision, based on Sensor Networks, IoT, AI and Robotics.

Connection with the lines of action of the national plan

Action 2.11: Improving knowledge on the welfare of cultured fish and developing systems to continuously and reliably monitor (i) new welfare indicators under normal culture conditions and during the slaughter process (where appropriate) and (ii) developing strategies to improve feed intake and utilisation, growth, reproduction and health status (susceptibility to disease) of cultured fish.
Action 2.17: Development and application of new technological solutions (biosensors, IoT, buoys, underwater robots, wireless signal transmission in the marine environment, improved oxygenation and fluid dynamics, passive waste samplers, machine learning, etc.) for the automation of the maintenance of farming infrastructures and the digitisation and modelling of fish and shellfish production in different production systems. It includes i) integration of the results of omics, technological and environmental platforms for a more detailed knowledge of the effects of climate change on farming in order to mitigate carbon emissions, leakages, eutrophication and pollution of the marine environment and ii) proof of concept of new engineering solutions (adapted at regional level) to mitigate the effects of climate change (increased frequency of storms, DANAs, etc.) on aquaculture infrastructures and production.

Tasks

Task 6.1.1: Estimation and control of fish biomass and feeding processes
- In charge: UPV2
- Participants: UPV12, UJI2
- Collaboration: CSIC1
- Associated publication:
  - Impact evaluation of deep learning on image segmentation for automatic Bluefin tuna sizing

Task 6.1.2: Analysis of the soundscape in marine farms and its relationship with fish behavior
- In charge: UPV12
- Participants: UPV2, UJI2

Task 6.1.3: Robotics and sensorization applied to aquaculture facility maintenance

Task 6.1.4: Computational tools applied to the analysis of the hydrodynamic environment of aquaculture facilities and their aeration needs
- In charge: UJI2
- Participants: UPV2, UPV12

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Objective 6.2

Assess, model and mitigate environmental risks and interactions for resilient and sustainable aquaculture: from site selection to product traceability.

Connection with the lines of action of the national plan

Action 2.18: Improving the capacity of aquaculture production to adapt to climate change and strategies to mitigate its effects on the activity in terms of spatial planning, intelligent management of facilities, carrying capacity and monitoring of environmental, socio-economic and production variables.
Action 2.17: Development and application of new technological solutions (biosensors, IoT, buoys, underwater robots, wireless signal transmission in the marine environment, improved oxygenation and fluid dynamics, passive waste samplers, machine learning, etc.) for the automation of the maintenance of farming infrastructures and the digitisation and modelling of fish and shellfish production in different production systems. It includes i) integration of the results of omics, technological and environmental platforms for a more detailed knowledge of the effects of climate change on farming in order to mitigate carbon emissions, leakages, eutrophication and pollution of the marine environment and ii) proof of concept of new engineering solutions (adapted at regional level) to mitigate the effects of climate change (increased frequency of storms, DANAs, etc.) on aquaculture infrastructures and production.

Tasks

Task 6.2.1: Adaptive Spatial Planning
- In charge: UA1
- Participants: UMH3, UJI2
- Associated publication:
  - A proxy for carrying capacity of Mediterranean aquaculture

Task 6.2.2: Environmental and socioeconomic interactions: prevention, contingency, and mitigation
- In charge: UA1
- Participants: UMH3, UA7, CSIC1, UPV1
- Associated publications:

Task 6.2.3: Modeling tools for applications in environmental management of aquaculture in a climate change context
- In charge: UMH3
- Participants: UA7, UA1
- Associated publications:
  - Long-Term Sea Level Periodicities Along the European Coast from Altimetry and Tide Gauge Data
  - Marine heatwaves in the western Mediterranean: Considerations for coastal aquaculture adaptation

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In charge WP

Kilian Toledo

WP6 - Marine Technologies for Precision and Sustainable Aquaculture (TECMAPS)

Objectives

Objective 6.1

Objective 6.2

In charge WP

Kilian Toledo

UA1

Universidad de Alicante

ktoledo@ua.es

Pedro Sanz Valero

UJI2

Universitat Jaume I

sanzp@uji.es

Participants WP

Francisco Montilla Jiménez

UA5

Universidad de Alicante

Mª Isabel Vigo Aguiar

UA7

Universidad de Alicante

Gabriela Andreu García

UPV2

Universitat Politècnica de València

Victor Espinosa

UPV12

Universitat Politècnica de València

Xavier Barber Valles

UMH3

Universidad Miguel Hernández

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