Best Practices in Aquaculture: the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATIP) and the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) Workshop

The development of best practices is an important part of the recently launched European Strategic guidelines for a more sustainable and competitive EU aquaculture. The workshop stimulated the sharing of knowledge and promoted best practice development across aquaculture systems and regions. It provided the participants with a better understanding of how to develop and maintain best practices within the existing boundaries for sharing of data. The workshop also showed examples of good practices and looked into opportunities for guidance and collaborative actions on how to support their development. It was organised jointly by the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATIP) further to an initial approach by the Ocean Best Practices System (OBPS) of The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).