Regions Map
These are the blue bioeconomy within the 9 regions of Blue BioClusters Project
Belgium
Macroalgae: Seaweed seeding lines facilities.
Macroalgae and bivalve: Present technology development for harvesting.
Mussel beds for ecosystem services: For coastal protection, ecosystem reinforcing.
Seaweed cultivation for food industry semi-preps: Food processing on-land tank systems. Recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) mainly red and greens. Net harvested small quantities. Washed and sold fresh. Food whole seaweed.
Marine compounds-bioprospecting: Bio-coating with enzymes, chitin, etc.
France
Portugal
Scotland
Lithuania
Fish:
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Wild harvested – coastal and inland fishery. Sold to Latvia for further processing. Food à Fish meal.
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Wild harvested – open sea fishery. Freezing, landed in Latvia and Denmark for further processing. Food – salted, dried, smoked, canned à Fish meal and oil.
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Aquaculture (carp, arctic char, African catfish, rainbow trout, grass carp, pike, sturgeon). Cleaned. Food – sold fresh or chilled.
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Aquaculture (African catfish, sturgeon, carp, rainbow trout). Cleaned, filleted. Food à fillets, smoked, canned.
Estonia
Mussels: Cultivated on rope. Suitable harvester is under development. Washed in fresh water and cleaned. Ground to form a powder and the meat is removed from the shells. Technology varies in terms of the machinery employed. Potential for the use of meat mass (protein powder). Protein bars/powder/supplements and poultry and/or animal feed. Estonian Maritime Academy of Tallinn University of Technology.
Macroalgae/Seaweed: Wild harvest. Extraction of different compounds from macroalgae. Red colorant (Phycoerythrin), producing different seaweed extracts, compounds for cosmetics producers. Compounds to cosmetics producers.
Seaweed: Wild harvest. Dried and washed. Hot extraction of furcellaran from seaweed, filtering the extract via roller-drying or gel precipitation. Furcellaran can be used as stabilizing, thickening and gelling agent in the food, agricultural, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. Biomass from which furcellaran has been extracted- is used as a fertilizer.
Microalgae: Cultivated. Developing the valorisation of the whole biomass of the seaweed for cosmetics and other industries (e.g., producing different seaweed extracts). Microalgae photobioreactor system, feed/food compounds from microalgae. Cosmetic, pharmaceutical, food/feed producers.
Fish: Aquaculture (rainbow trout ~85%, the European crayfish, tench, eel, African sharp tooth catfish, carp, catfish, sturgeon, grass carp, etc.). Fresh/ cleaned/ filleted. Food à fillets, smoked, canned, fresh.
