{"id":97861838,"date":"2020-11-16T12:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T11:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundacion-biodiversidad.es\/programa_pleamar\/acuistar-strategies-for-the-valorization-of-the-starfish\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:32:30","slug":"acuistar-strategies-for-the-valorization-of-the-starfish","status":"publish","type":"programa_pleamar","link":"https:\/\/fundacion-biodiversidad.es\/en\/programa_pleamar\/acuistar-strategies-for-the-valorization-of-the-starfish\/","title":{"rendered":"ACUISTAR &#8211; Strategies for the valorization of the starfish."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In Galicia, the shellfish sector, either on foot or afloat, employs approximately 3500 people. Over the years, the excessive proliferation of starfish in Galicia has been a problem due to the predation they exert on the banks of bivalve molluscs, negatively affecting exploitation activities and forcing shellfish gatherers&#8217; guilds and associations to carry out costly activities to remove individuals from the seabed. After extraction, the removed starfish, belonging to the species <em>Marthasterias glacialis <\/em>and<em> Asterias rubens<\/em>, are treated as waste that must be managed by a specialized company, with the consequent cost that this entails, since this resource, at present, does not present any viable use.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Currently, there are several action plans for aquaculture that focus on the need to find alternative raw materials to fishmeal. Specifically, the need to reduce dependence on fishmeal is mentioned within Priority 2 of the EMFF Operational Programme (<em>Promoting sustainable, resource-efficient, innovative, competitive and knowledge-based aquaculture<\/em>), and also appears as an objective to be achieved within the Multiannual Strategic Plan for Spanish Aquaculture (PEAE). Regulation (EU) No. 2017\/1017 on the Catalogue of Feed Materials includes, within category 10 (Fish, other aquatic animals and their derived products), starfish meal as a permitted raw material for the manufacture of animal feed.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The valorisation of this marine resource would open up a new business opportunity for the shellfish sector, helping to revitalise it and create jobs. In addition, it would contribute to the implementation of sustainable aquaculture, making it possible to develop rational exploitation plans that would reduce the overpopulation of stars, thus favouring the sustainability of the coastal marine ecosystems in which shellfish production areas are located, whose biodiversity is affected by the excessive proliferation of stars. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The ACUISTAR project brings together different communities and sectors (research community, shellfish gatherers and social action groups) to value this marine resource, which currently does not have a viable use, thus providing a solution to this problem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.programapleamar.es\/proyectos\/acuistar-estrategias-para-la-valorizacion-de-la-estrella-de-mar\">See the project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22405,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"financiaci_n":[652],"lineas_actuacion_tematicas":[655],"class_list":["post-97861838","programa_pleamar","type-programa_pleamar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","financiaci_n-fondo-europeo-maritimo-de-pesca-en","lineas_actuacion_tematicas-marine-ecosystems"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ACUISTAR - Strategies for the valorization of the starfish. - Fundaci\u00f3n Biodiversidad<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fundacion-biodiversidad.es\/en\/programa_pleamar\/acuistar-strategies-for-the-valorization-of-the-starfish\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACUISTAR - Strategies for the valorization of the starfish. - Fundaci\u00f3n Biodiversidad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Description In Galicia, the shellfish sector, either on foot or afloat, employs approximately 3500 people. 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