GLORiA-TOOLS: GLObal change Resilience in Aquaculture – Tools for Long-term Sustainability
Pleamar program
Following the identification in the GLORiA and GLORiA2 projects of the hotspots related to fish escapes and their environmental and socio-economic interactions, as well as the proposal of suitable traceability markers for escaped fish, GLORiA-TOOLS will develop tools and prototypes that will be useful for the management of fish escapes from aquaculture facilities. These tools will cover environmental modelling in GIS environment to estimate the risk of escape, socio-economic tools that will allow us to evaluate the document “Contingency plan against mass leaks: basic elements and application”, as well as traceability tools using biosensors, genetic analysis and machine learning, whose usefulness has already been demonstrated in previous projects. The purpose of the project is to offer tools in beta version, ready to make the leap to the testing phases in real-world environments.
Line of action:
Marine ecosystemsStatus:
En ejecuciónExecution date:
2024End date:
2026Project web page:
https://www.programapleamar.es/proyectos/gloria-tools-global-change-resilience-aquaculture-tools-long-term-sustainabilityGLORiA-TOOLS has the general objective of creating and transferring tools and technologies that have the potential to improve the resilience and environmental and socioeconomic sustainability of fish farming in the open ocean in the face of Global Change and the impact of escapes on the end consumer. The specific objectives are as follows:
- To create tools for modelling and spatio-temporal prediction of the risk of escape and its impact on the environment, integrated into a web application, favouring informed decision-making by all parties involved.
- To deepen the study of the socio-economic effects of leaks, evaluating their management measures and creating tools and methodologies for training and transfer to the actors involved.
- Design a biosensor prototype that uses the selected traceability biomarkers to identify farmed and wild fish, assessing their accuracy in relevant environments.
- Identify genetic markers for traceability of farmed and wild fish, and propose the best genetic tools for the identification of escapes.
- Design a prototype for the recognition and identification of farmed and wild species using artificial vision for realistic environments and with non-expert users.
- Encourage the evaluation by the end user of the tools and prototypes created during the project, in order to prepare the leap to the next levels of technological maturity, in addition to transferring knowledge to the actors involved.
Pablo de Olavide University
Polytechnic University of Cartagena
GLORiA-TOOLS: GLObal change Resilience in Aquaculture – Tools for Long-term Sustainability
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