Predicting risk and impact of harmful events on the aquaculture sector

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Date of latest update: 2023-03-02

Description

Description (EN):

The aquaculture sector on Europe’s Atlantic Area is negatively impacted by the effects of harmful blooms and microbial pathogens. The PRIMROSE project aims to strengthen risk management systems in order to grow, innovate and generate jobs in the aquaculture sector. This sector relies on sufficient early warning of harmful events, so that mitigation measures can be put in place. PRIMROSE will both develop a transnational short to medium term risk forecast and a long term assessment of climate impact on harmful algal blooms and pathogens. This improved forecast will include microbial risk and climate impacts, in addition to algal bloom predictions. The consortium will benefit from improved spatial resolution utilising new generation Sentinel data products for aquaculture production areas in Ireland, Scotland, England, Spain, Portugal and France. The transnational aspects of PRIMROSE will be developed through the implementation of a portal system using common best practice and methodologies and a joint front end. This new system will develop an easily understandable traffic-light risk index. The market for these products will include policy makers, risk regulators, food safety authorities and the shellfish and fin-fish industry and will exploit existing EU investment in marine observing infrastructure.

Achievements (EN):

The aquaculture industry in the European Atlantic Area is negatively impacted by the effects of harmful bloom events where the sector relies on sufficient early warning of these events so that mitigation measures can be implemented. The PRIMROSE project has exceeded its stated aims and objectives in its deliverables, outputs and activities to strengthen risk management systems in order to grow and innovate within the aquaculture sector. The developed end products implemented have substantially improved the predictive forecasting of Harmful Algal Blooms with a transnational and regional focus in aquaculture locations from the Shetland Islands to the Canary Islands. The end products and activities implemented are in use for these risk management and prediction systems and are available for use of policy makers, risk regulators, food safety authorities, and the seafood industry, who will exploit existing EU investment in marine observing infrastructure. It concerns a transnational regional portal system, proof of concept geoserver, and a bulletin report generator whose national reporting procedures were standardise and partially automated so that expert evaluators have information to make accurate forecasts. New versions of hydrodynamic models were also validated with in situ measurements, satellite images and improved knowledge of particle transport processes in offshore areas to support advice on the risk of toxicity events and microbiological contamination. Common best practices and methodologies for risk assessment were developed and implemented, including the use of an easily understandable traffic light risk index. The project also carried out autonomous methods of water samples monitoring and water collection at aquacultures site using autonomous boats or aircraft. "As shellfish growers we are, more often than not, caught up in day-to-day operational matters at sites, involving harvesting and husbandry activities. Hence, having quick access to our bulletin is treasured by the growers here in the isles, given that it provides easy to read, very important information on bloom activity and subsequent toxin status which can seriously impact business operations. We have appreciated greatly the additional input provided by PRIMROSE to bring enhanced and innovative measures to our forecasts.” Kenny Pottinger Chair of Seafood Shetland shellfish growing committee.

Website: http://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

• Risk assessment, prevention & surveillance actions: developing a single trans-national web based information portal adopting best practices and methodologies approaches to risk assessment. • Planning monitoring & reporting: incorporating operational oceanographic or bespoke products that will allow informed forecasts to be produced. • Response mechanisms to threats: expanding the ASIMUTH (Applied simulations and Integrated modeling for the understanding of toxic and harmful algal blooms) concept to include assessment of other important aquaculture risks: specifically: shellfish vectored microbial risk to humans. • Developing new risk management tools: automating graphical and mapping routines making web based reporting easier & cheaper to produce in a common format. • Early detection & mapping: development of a long terms forecasting product that incorporates climate and environmental change for use by national policy makers, regulators, food safety authorities & the shellfish industry.

Thematic information

Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: Strengthening risks management systems

Thematic Objective: (05) promoting climate change adaptation, risk prevention and management by:

Investment Priority: (05b) promoting investment to address specific risks, ensuring disaster resilience and developing disaster management systems

Partners (10)

Lead Partner: Marine Institute

Address: Oranmore, Ireland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 687 920.00

ERDF budget: EUR 515 940.00

Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer

Name: Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer

Address: Plouzané, France

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 276 084.00

ERDF budget: EUR 207 063.00

Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa

Name: Instituto Superior Técnico / Universidade de Lisboa

Address: Lisbon, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 213 700.00

ERDF budget: EUR 160 275.00

Fundación AZTI – AZTI Fundazioa

Name: Fundación AZTI – AZTI Fundazioa

Address: Sukarrieta, Spain

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 201 148.00

ERDF budget: EUR 150 861.00

INDIGO ROCK MARINE RESEARCH STATION

Name: INDIGO ROCK MARINE RESEARCH STATION

Address: Cork, Ireland

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 106 636.00

ERDF budget: EUR 79 977.00

Instituto Español de Oceanografia

Name: Instituto Español de Oceanografia

Address: A Coruña, Spain

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 323 608.00

ERDF budget: EUR 242 706.00

Agencia de Gestión Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucía

Name: Agencia de Gestión Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucía

Address: El Rompido (Huelva), Spain

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 249 988.00

ERDF budget: EUR 187 491.00

Scottish Association for Marine Science

Name: Scottish Association for Marine Science

Address: Oban, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 309 996.00

ERDF budget: EUR 232 497.00

Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Name: Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Address: Plymouth, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 308 968.00

ERDF budget: EUR 231 726.00

Seafood Shetland

Name: Seafood Shetland

Address: Lerwick, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 51 300.00

ERDF budget: EUR 38 475.00

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Summary

Project name (PT): Previsão de risco e impacto de eventos nocivos no sector da aquacutura

Project name (FR): Prédire du risqué et l'impact des événements néfastes sur le secteur de l'aquaculture

Project name (ES): Prediciendo el riesgo e impacto de eventos nocivos en el sector de la acuicultura

Project name (EN): Predicting risk and impact of harmful events on the aquaculture sector

Project acronym: PRIMROSE

Project start date: 2017-11-13

Project end date: 2020-12-12

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 729 348.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 047 011.00

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 047 011.00.

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2021-08-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

71 / 71 (100%)

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718 / 718 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.atlanticarea.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-03, 2023-02-02 and 2024 01 30. Fields project name and description (from 23 projects) translated from Spanish into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: @BluePortS, 4H-CREAT, ACCESS2SEA, AGEO, AGRITOX, ALERTOX-NET, AtlanticFoodExport, ATLANTIC-KET-MED, AT-VIRTUAL, AYCH, CABFishMAN, CircularSeas, COCKLES, CONSORTEX, FAN-BEST, iFADO, IN 4.0, JONAS, MONITOOL, NANOCULTURE, PROTOATLANTIC, SIRMA and USER-FACTOR.

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