Project description
Growing seaweed and blue mussels within windfarms
As Europe’s offshore renewables sector grows, so does the potential of low trophic aquaculture (LTA) for increasing seafood production. With this in mind, the EU-funded OLAMUR project will bring together key sectors to demonstrate sustainable commercial solutions for both the North and the Baltic Sea. It will establish three pilot demonstration sites where seaweed and blue mussels will be grown within windfarms or in the vicinity of a trout farm. A pilot site will be created off the coast of Germany’s Helgoland island, another in the Baltic Sea at Kriegers Flak on the east coast of Denmark, and a third one off the coast of Estonia near the port of Veere.
Objective
Expansion of low trophic aquaculture (LTA) for increasing seafood production are faced with opportunities in unexploited regions and environments and maximizing benefits of marine space by considering low impact multi-use (MU) of space such as combining wind farm areas and integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA). The main objective of OLAMUR (Offshore Low-trophic Aquaculture in Multi-Use scenario Realisation) is to bring together multi-use low-trophic aquaculture (MU-LTA) related key sectors, to demonstrate sustainable commercial solutions for both the North and the Baltic Sea. OLAMUR will establish three pilot demonstration sites where seaweed and blue mussels will be grown within windfarms or in the vicinity of a trout farm. The wind farm pilot sites are located in the German exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the North Sea north of Helgoland, in the Danish EEZ of the Baltic Sea at Kriegers Flak and the third pilot demonstration site will be next to a trout farm in the Estonian Sea near the Port of Veere. All data, information, products and standards for establishing, operating and evaluating will be monitored, simulated, stored and customized as an “OLAMUR digital MU-LTA farm service”. This will provide a solid basis for MU-LTA upscaling. Through a transdisciplinary holistic approach, OLAMUR will ensure severe contributions towards demonstrating and documenting the possibilities for low impact co-use of the marine space. A data-based service system will be developed for policymakers for knowledge-based decisions, and innovative governance/policy arrangements will be developed towards achieving a holistic, effective and sustainable solution for multiple uses. OLAMUR will focus on 3 pilots that will serve as testing and demonstration sites. An important pathway towards impact in OLAMUR is the science-policy-industry-community interface. With that OLAMUR ensures advancement in developing optimal and carbon-neutral use and enabling a quantum leap towards long term sustainable, healthy and rich European marine spaces.
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5817 Bergen
Norway
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27570 Bremerhaven
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2100 KOBENHAVN
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8000 Aarhus C
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10178 Berlin
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21502 Geesthacht
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7010 Trondheim
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6000 Esbjerg
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8500 Grenaa
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7010 Trondheim
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7052 Trondheim
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27568 Bremerhaven
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5330 Munkebo
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5006 Bergen
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93453 SAAREMAA
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51005 Tartu
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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93437 SAAREMAA VALD
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1165 Kobenhavn
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16154 Genova
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LT-92294 KLAIPEDA
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4031 Angleur
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25924 Emmelsbüll-Horsbüll
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25899 Niebüll
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184 94 Åkersberga
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