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• Interfacultary Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Aquaculture
Production
• Groups 7 laboratories and research units
• Distributed over 3 different faculties of Ghent University
• Supported by:
– ~100 researchers
– one Technology Transfer Officer (Dr. M. Drouillon)
• Major projects:
– FP7 Promicrobe project: 3 MEuro
– GOA project: 1.5 MEuro
– IUAP project: 3,4 MEuro
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2. Sustainable aquaculture: the research canvas
Husbandry Nutritional Microbial
Breeding
techniques research management
Challenges for aquaculture industry:
– Sustain yields and increase production
– Reduce quality variability (production related parameters)
– Reduce financial losses through disease

3. Blue biotechnology at work for People, Planet and Profit
Morphological
development
Environmental Aquatic veterinary
monitoring medicine
Industry
Society
 Improved yields
Ugent  Sustainability
 Improved quality
 Food security
 Reduced disease
Aquaculture
Microbial Nutritional
management research
Genomics 3

4. Sustainable aquaculture: the way forward
Current trends & concerns in society:
– Food security (EU imports 63% of its fish consumption)
– Sustainability
Current trend in the industry:
– From empirical farms to knowledge-based industry
– Translating Research to Practice: Multifactorial effects,
solutions: multifactorial  not easily translated to
industry practice
– Breeding techniques: still needs larger penetration in the
industry

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7. Fish farming
Mollusc farming
Macroalgae farming
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8. Source: http://www.awi.de/en/home/
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9. Ugent International
Aquaculture and
biological National Marine
knowledge technology
Sustainable sea farming for
increased European seafood
security
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