Project description
Innovative device to monitor pathogens in fish farms
Fish farms encounter significant challenges related to fish mortality and disease treatment. So far, no available technologies can fully solve the problem, lacking the capability to continuously and autonomously detect pathogens on site. This leads to considerable costs and production losses ranging from 20 % to 30 %. Aquaculture companies grapple with challenges stemming from their inability to predict pathogen infections, causing fish mortality, increased antibiotic use, heightened production costs, and sustainability concerns. Addressing these critical issues, the EIC-funded KOA project is at the forefront of developing a revolutionary device designed to monitor pathogen concentrations in fish tanks and track their evolution. By providing continuous, on-site pathogen detection capabilities, the KOA device is poised to significantly reduce costs and production losses for aquaculture companies.
Objective
With a growing demand for protein sources, aquaculture is postulated as a sustainable solution to meet this market need. However, fish farms are facing serious problems of fish mortality and/or the need to treat diseases with antibiotics, as there is a lack of technological solutions to anticipate the appearance of infectious pathogens.
Among the different sectors that suffer from this problem, aquaculture is the vertical whose market is estimated to have the greatest growth potential (within the food industry), regardless its little technological development. Current solutions in the market cannot detect pathogens on-site in a continuously and autonomous manner, without giving farmers the chance to prevent undesired bacterial growth, lowering down reaction times. As a result of this lack of capacity to anticipate pathogen infections, aquaculture companies face the following problems:
1. Unwanted fish mortality, due to late diagnosis of infections.
2. The need to use antibiotics, decreasing the quality of the product produced and increasing the environmental impact.
3. Increased production costs due to low productivity and increased technical costs associated with sanitary controls and treatments.
4. Sustainability problems caused by the generation of food waste, loss of animal welfare and the use of chemical products that are harmful to the environment.
All these problemas resut in economic cost of 6 B$/year and losses of between 20% and 30% of production .
In response to these problems, KOA was founded, with the aim to develop an integral device that autonomously monitors pathogen concentrations in fish tanks and keep track of its evolution over time, leading to relevant economic and production savings.
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- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs antibiotics
- agricultural sciences animal and dairy science domestic animals animal husbandry
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HORIZON.3.2 - European innovation ecosystems
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02
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08480 Barcelona
Spain
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