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

WP6 (TECMAPS) focuses all its efforts on developing tools, applications and management strategies that contribute to a marine aquaculture of precision and environmentally energy. The tasks carried out in this working group revolve around two main axes. Firstly, to develop technologies that allow for better real-time monitoring and supervision of the facilities, based on rsensor networks, internet of things, artificial intelligence and robotics. On the other hand, creating tools to evaluate, model and mitigate the risks and interactions environmental, from site selection to traceability of the product. In this working group you can find everything related to the application of cutting-edge engineering to offshore aquaculture operations, such as data analysis and modeling with state-of-the-art techniques to environmental applications and socioeconomic. Our mission is to foster a more sustainable and resilient aquaculture to global change.

Objectives

Objective 6.1

Technologically improve real-time monitoring and supervision based on sensor networks, IoT, AI, and robotics.

  • Action 2.11: Improving knowledge about crop welfare and developing systems that allow for continuous and reliable monitoring of: i) new welfare indicators under normal farming conditions and during the slaughter process (where applicable) and ii) developing strategies to improve feed intake and utilization, growth, reproduction and health status (susceptibility to disease) of farmed specimens.
  • 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 farming infrastructure maintenance and the digitalization and modeling of fish and mollusc production in different production systems. It includes i) integration of the results of omics, technological and environmental platforms for a more detailed understanding of the effects of climate change on farming and thus mitigating carbon emissions, escapes, eutrophication and marine pollution; and ii) proofs of concept of new engineering solutions (regionally adapted) to mitigate the effects of climate change (increased frequency of storms, DANAs, etc.) on aquaculture infrastructure and production.
  • Homework 6.1.2: Analysis of the soundscape in marine farms and its relationship with fish behavior
  • Homework 6.1.4: Computational tools applied to the analysis of the hydrodynamic environment of aquaculture facilities and their aeration needs.

Objective 6.2

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

  • Action 2.18: Improving the adaptability of aquaculture production to climate change and strategies to mitigate its effects on the activity in terms of spatial planning, intelligent facility management, carrying capacity, and monitoring of environmental, socioeconomic, and productive 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 farming infrastructure maintenance and the digitalization and modeling of fish and mollusc production in different production systems. It includes i) integration of the results of omics, technological and environmental platforms for a more detailed understanding of the effects of climate change on farming and thus mitigating carbon emissions, escapes, eutrophication and marine pollution; and ii) proofs of concept of new engineering solutions (regionally adapted) to mitigate the effects of climate change (increased frequency of storms, DANAs, etc.) on aquaculture infrastructure and production.

WP Managers

Kilian Toledo

UA1

University of Alicante

Pedro Sanz Valero

Universitat Jaume I

WP Participants

Francisco Montilla Jiménez

UA5

University of Alicante

Mª Isabel Vigo Aguiar

UA7

University of Alicante

Gabriela Andreu García

Polytechnic University of Valencia

Victor Espinosa

Polytechnic University of Valencia

Xavier Barber Valles

Miguel Hernández University