BlueBRIDGE Survey results now available on Zenodo

02/Oct/2016

BlueBRIDGE survey results on over 200 member of the French Business and Sea Innovation Cluster, the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique, are now available on Zenodo, the research data repository created by OpenAIRE and CERN.

Remote sensing: A suitable technology for assessing damage and loss in fisheries and aquaculture?

30/Jun/2016

Droughts, floods, storms and other disasters triggered by climate or human drivers have risen in frequency and/or severity over the last few decades, and have caused increasing damage to developing countries and to agriculture sectors such as fisheries and aquaculture. A recent study by FAO shows that the agriculture sectors absorbs approximately 22 percent of the economic impact caused by medium- and large scale natural hazards and disasters in developing countries...

What are the main data management challenges for the blue growth sector? Can research support businesses? All the answers in our survey report

22/Jun/2016

BlueBRIDGE aims to deliver tailor made data management services to different communities (aquaculture, ecosystem approach to fisheries and education) and stakeholders (international organisations, research centres, enterprises, etc). What are the challenges faced by these communities in the field of data management? Is there a demand for the services designed by BlueBRIDGE? Are there any gaps in the market of data management services for the marine and aquaculture sector that BlueBRIDGE can fill? Can the BlueBRIDGE innovative technologies support education? We have asked these questions to the members of the French Business and Sea Innovation Cluster, the Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique, through an online survey.

Over 200 responses have been collected and today we would like to share the results with you!

FAO Blue Growth Blog: Developing sustainable aquaculture in Angola

09/May/2016

The latest Blue Growth blog is online with a specific focus developing sustainable aquaculture in Angola. 

You can read the full article here 

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Abstract

Register now to the European Maritime Day conference to participate in the BlueBRIDGE workshop!

31/Mar/2016

The production of maps of natural zones and human activity, together with stock assessment, can enable ecosystem degradation analysis. Services related to investment analysis and the identification of strategic locations in aquaculture can represent a competitive advantage for the aquafarming sector.

Aquaculture operations in floating HDPE cages

23/Nov/2015

Interesting report from FAO on aquaculture operations in floating HDPE cages.

Global aquaculture production has been steadily growing in recent decades, increasingly contributing fish and other edible aquatic organisms of commercial importance entering national, regional and international markets. The growing demand for such products has stimulated the development and expansion of aquaculture production systems both on land and in all waterbodies, covering technologies ranging from the production of seed material to ongrowing structures and other farming support facilities...