Synopsis of FISHERIES & AQUACULTURE research projects in the 6th Framework Programme

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Synopsis of
FISHERIES & AQUACULTURE
research projects
in the 6th Framework
Programme
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Foreword
The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is a dynamic process where several critical issues
are tackled simultaneously. Larger sharing of responsibilities with national govern-
ments and stakeholders, a shift to longer-term management strategies, a move to-
wards fishing effort management and fleet-based management, implementation of
recovery plans for depleted stocks, integration of environmental requirements, devel-
opment of the economic dimension of the CFP, and the strategic plan for aquaculture
are examples of areas which characterize the new orientation of the CFP.
EU fisheries management is facing serious challenges. A large number of stocks are
classified as outside safe biological limits and zero catch has been advised for sev-
eral stocks. Aquaculture has been one of the fastest growing animal production
sectors in Europe and European aquaculture research is worldwide recognised as a
major player. There is, however, often a gap between the knowledge generated
and the ability to translate it into market opportunities.
These new challenges call for higher quality and timely delivery of advice. At the
same time the complexity of the research questions is increasing, in particular with
the integration of environment requirements.
Promoting sustainable fisheries and aquaculture through an integrated approach
combining the latest advances in science, together with environmental and socio-
economical factors is a critical objective of EU research programmes and, in par-
ticular, of the 6th Framework Programme of Research.
FP6 Research in support of Fisheries and Aquaculture focused on the following ob-
jectives:
• Solving policy problems via pragmatic and much more applied research with
shorter timing for individual projects (SSP programme),
• Promoting excellence in science in priority thematic areas of Food quality and
Safety (Priority 5) and Sustainable development, global change and ecosystem
(Priority 6),
• Developing international cooperation activities (Inco programme) and specific
research activities for SMEs,
• Increasing capacity building through mobility of researchers (Marie Curie ac-
tions),
• Promoting coordination of national research programmes among Member
States (ERANET scheme).
Through its funds to European projects and its links to national research activities,
FP6 has strengthened research in fisheries and aquaculture in universities, research
centres and industry. It has backed scientific areas of high priorities such as scien-
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tific basis of fisheries management, fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance,
animal welfare, functional genomics, stress and disease resistance, nutrition and
feeding, husbandry etc. Efforts have also been made to promote dissemination of
results to users through different channels (scientific publications, specific work-
shops, books, international conferences, etc).
The scientific community has provided excellent contribution to the research pri-
orities, thus demonstrating the great interest not only by researchers but also by
industry, policy-makers and stakeholders for this programme. There is now a com-
prehensive portfolio of 159 funded and running projects.
The synopsis provides information on all running projects, classified by specific
programme, scientific keywords, number of contract, acronym and/or country.
Most of them have a website address, which can be easily accessed for further in-
formation on the projects.
We hope that readers will find this publication both interesting and useful. The
synopsis targets a wide audience including not only researchers, but also industry,
public authorities and public at large involved in the fisheries and aquaculture sec-
tors.

Fokion Fotiadis Jose Manuel Silva Rodriguez
Director General Director General
Directorate General for Maritime Directorate General for Research
Affairs and Fisheries
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments are due to Maria Merlo, Tuuli Kytölä, Apostolos Peltekis, Hans
Jellasics, and Annemie Van Vaerenbergh for collecting the information and prepar-
ing the synopsis and to Jacques Fuchs and Stamatis Varsamos for the technical su-
pervision of the document.
Nota Bene
Every care has been taken in the preparation of this synopsis and the information
is provided in good faith. This synopsis is a compilation of abstracts of the projects.
Some abstracts were corrected to create a more uniform presentation. Neverthe-
less, the contents cannot be guaranteed to be accurate or complete, and remains
under the responsibility of the coordinators of these projects. Neither the European
Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission can be held re-
sponsible for the contents or for the use which might be made of them. In all cases
where up-to-date information is sought regarding a particular project, contact
should be made with its coordinator.
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Table of contents
INTroducTIoN 17
Eu coNTAcTs For FP6 FIshErIEs ANd AquAculTurE ProjEcTs 25
Block 1: FocusINg ANd INTEgrATINg EuroPEAN rEsEArch 27
Priority thematic areas 29
Priority 5: Food quality and safety 29
FOOD-1: Total Food Chain 31
SEAFOODPLUS: Health promoting, safe seafood of high eating quality 32
in a consumer driven fork-to-farm concept
FOOD-2: Epidemiology of food-related diseases and allergies 35
ERMES:European Research for Mediterranean seafood 36
FOOD-3: Impact of food on health 39
EPIZONE: Network on epizootic disease diagnosis & control 40
EUROLATSEA: European Research for the Latin American seafood industry 42
FOOD-4: ‘Traceability’ processes along the production chain 45
SUSTAINAQ: Sustainable aquaculture production through the use 46
of recirculation systems
FOOD-5: Methods of analysis, detection and control 49
AQUAGRIS: Environmental management reform for sustainable farming, 50
fisheries and aquaculture
BIOTOX: Development of cost-effective tools for risk management 52
and traceability systems for marine biotoxins in seafood
BIOTOXMARIN: Development of novel analytic tools for the detection 54
of marine biotoxins
DETECTOX: Development of an SPR-based biosensor for the detection 56
of lipophilic phycotoxins in shellfish residues
FOOD-6: Safer and environmentally friendly production and healthier 59
foodstuffs
CONSENSUS: Multi-Stakeholder Platform for Sustainable Aquaculture 60
in Europe
EADGENE: European Animal Disease Genomics Network of Excellence 62
for Animal Health and Food Safety
FEEDING FATS SAFETY: Quality and safety of feeding fats obtained 64
from waste or by-products from the food chain
IMAQUANIM: Improved immunity of aquacultured animals 66
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FOOD-7: Impact of animal feed on human health 69
AQUAMAX: Sustainable aquafeeds to maximise the health benefits 70
of farmed fish for consumers
FOOD-9: Specific Support Actions 73
CODE-EFABAR: Code of Good Practice for Farm Animal Breeding 74
and Reproduction
Priority 6: Sustainable development, global change and ecosystems 77
SUSTDEV-3: Global change and ecosystems 79
SUSTDEV-3.3: Biodiversity and ecosystems 81
BASIN: Resolving the impact of climatic processes on ecosystems 82
of the North Atlantic basin and shelf seas: Integrating and advancing
observation, monitoring, and prediction
COBO: Integrating new technologies for the study of benthic 83
ecosystem response to human activity: towards a Coastal Ocean
Benthic Observatory
DAISIE: Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe 85
ELME: European Lifestyles and Marine Ecosystems 87
ESTTAL: Expressed sequence tags of toxic Algae 89
EUR-OCEANS: EURopean network of excellence for OCean Ecosystems 90
ANalysiS
FISH & CHIPS: Towards DNA chip technology as a standard analytical 93
tool for the identification of marine organisms in biodiversity
and ecosystem science
HABIT: Harmful Algal Bloom species in Thin Layers 95
HERMES: Hotspot Ecosystem Research on the Margins of European 96
Seas
MARBEF: Marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning 98
MARINE GENOMICS: Implementation of high-throughput genomic 100
approaches to investigate the functioning of marine ecosystems
and the biology of marine organisms.
SEED: Life history transformations among HAB species, 102
and the environmental and physiological factors that regulate them
SESAME: Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem 104
Changes
SUSTDEV-3.5: Strategies for sustainable land management, including 107
coastal zones, agricultural land and forests
SPICOSA: Science and Policy Integration for COastal System 108
Assessment
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