This report presents the results of the analysis of a portfolio of 841 EU projects - completed or ongoing - relevant to the EU Mission “Restore our Oceans and Waters by 2030”. These projects have been funded by 16 EU programmes in a period of 9 years...
Socioeconomic data are an asset to support Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP). Collecting and analysing these data can offer valuable insights into human activities in marine areas and how MSP may affect or be affected by them. However, the ability to...
To address sustainability challenges and to enable the use of new areas currently inaccessible by the incumbent aquaculture technology, the Norwegian authorities launched in 2015 a new type of innovation policy instrument, known as development...
The Maritime Spatial Planning process is data intensive, having to draw upon the best available data coming from many different sources. There are, therefore, multiple challenges in managing spatial data for inclusion in Marine Plans. These...
Risk-based Approaches (RBA) are increasingly playing an explicit and important role in a number of environmental regulations across Europe and globally. In this paper, the authors summarise a generic RBA developed for the Marine Strategy Framework...
Aquaponics is rapidly emerging as a sustainable aquatic food production system that addresses the many concerns associated with aquaculture, especially those related to environmental footprint. This paper seeks to advance the current understanding...
This article addresses how digital transformation can help support and meet expansion needs of the fisheries/aquaculture industries that includes exploiting and harnessing ICT, IoT, Cloud-edge computing, AI, machine learning, immersive technologies...
This review paper highlights the significance of seaweed farming in global food and nutritional security, mitigation and adaptation to global climate change, and women empowerment within a single frame. This review paper also outlined the major...
An essential aspect of product quality of aquatic foods is the rapid and accurate identification of bacterial species. From this perspective omics technologies prove to be very useful in the assessment of the quality and safety of seafood products...
The aquaculture industry depends on the support of society to maintain and extend its activities. In Norway and elsewhere, such support cannot be taken for granted. The public has diverse expectations of the industry, and attitudes toward the...
