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Intelligent management system for integrated multi-trophic aquaculture

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Creating the foundations for integrated multi-trophic and sustainable aquaculture

Aquaculture is a significant industry in Europe and plays a crucial role in addressing climate change and biodiversity. Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) has emerged as a promising development within the sector, offering improved sustainability and potentially larger yields. However, despite its advantages, the challenge of monitoring, testing and managing IMTA on a large scale has hindered its expansion. The EU-funded IMPAQT project aims to create the foundations for the European aquaculture industry’s transition to sustainability and environmentally friendly solutions. It will seek to achieve this by developing and providing the necessary equipment and platform to address the issues that impede the expansion of IMTA. The project will demonstrate the benefits of IMTA through testing and innovation in six pilot initiatives.

Objective

The Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) is acknowledged as a promising solution for the sustainable development of aquaculture. However, IMTA has been only tested at very small scale in Europe, while management of large-scale IMTA areas remains difficult.
The high level ambition of Impaqt project is to drive a paradigm shift in the EU Industry and its , paving the way to both a more environmentally friendly and more efficient/higher yielding European Industry. To that respect, Impaqt proposes an intelligent management platform for IMTA. Impaqt will develop and deploy novel sensors and data sources, together with smart systems required for long term autonomous monitoring in the field. An advanced IMTA model will be provided which yields spatially explicit information on how the different farm components interact with the environment on the scale of an ecosystem and that can be used for planning decisions by both farmers and regulators. Last but not least, an integrated management system, operating at the scale of an IMTA farm and comprising analytics and decision support functionalities, will be developed to enable enhanced operational decisions for animal welfare, production optimization, environmental protection and food quality assessment.
Impaqt systems and models will be validated in 6 pilots (Scotland, The Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey and China), addressing inland, coastal and offshore aquaculture. Impaqt will demonstrate the eco-intensification of EU aquaculture, by demonstrating the eco-efficiency and the environmental impacts minimized, the socioeconomic benefits and ecosystem services enabled, as well as the transition towards a circular economy business model. Impaqt brings together a considerable range of partners including 14 academic/research organizations, 4 SMEs and 3 large industries, all leaders in their respective fields/business, while aims to effectively transfer the project’s results to relevant stakeholders through training activities.

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MARINE INSTITUTE
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€ 557 907,50
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RINVILLE ORANMORE
H91 R673 Galway
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Ireland Northern and Western West
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