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Summary report on Offshore Aquaculture Technology Platform Regional Workshops

Summary report on Offshore Aquaculture Technology Platform Regional Workshops. Arne Fredheim, SINTEF, Norway Rosa Fernandez, Cetmar, Spain Oisin Naughton, Marine Institute, Ireland. Overview. Aiming at all types of stakeholders Regional workshops Presentations

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Summary report on Offshore Aquaculture Technology Platform Regional Workshops

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  1. Summary report on Offshore Aquaculture Technology Platform Regional Workshops Arne Fredheim, SINTEF, Norway Rosa Fernandez, Cetmar, Spain Oisin Naughton, Marine Institute, Ireland

  2. Overview • Aiming at all types of stakeholders • Regional workshops • Presentations • Break-out sessions with round table discussions • Ireland and UK • Spain and Portugal • Scandinavia • Questionnaire • 23 Questions • Four main topics • Vision and Public Perception • Technological development • Environmental concerns and bio-security • Regulation and planning framework

  3. Summary main points • Vision and Public Perception • Offshore Aquaculture can provide a solution to meeting the FAO forecast • Environmental concerns and bio-security • Sustainable development necessary • Escapees a big issue in Scandinavia and Ireland/UK • Technological development • Further development of cages, nets etc • Focus on safety of personnel • Regulation and planning framework • Existing framework adequate? • Length of licensing process • Site designation – marine spatial planning • Industry structure • Large regional differences • More biomass in each cage and each location

  4. Response • Total of 119 answers • Scandinavia 36 • Ireland and UK 44 • Spain and Portugal 39 • Workshop 111 attendants • Scandinavia 26 • Ireland and UK 43 • Spain and Portugal 42 • Good mix of stakeholders • Regional differences • Producers 30% • Professionals 25 – 30%

  5. Vision and Public PerceptionThe world need seafood • Growing gap between supply and demand for seafood products • Aquaculture will be increasingly important (Marra 2005) • Technological development will play a major role in future expansion of the industry • FAO (Subasinghe 2003) • Nearly half the fish consumed as food worldwide are raised on fish farms rather than caught in the wild • FAO (2007)

  6. Vision and Public PerceptionOffshore Aquaculture a possible solution • Could Offshore Aquaculture provide a solution to meeting the FAO forecast? • Total 91% in average agree or strongly agree • Stakeholder perception • Ireland and UK • 50 % of NGO disagree

  7. Challenges for development Technology Safety Cost efficiency Answers more or less independent of region Attention to improve public perception Sustainability Environmental impacts Food safety Answers more or less independent of region Vision and Public PerceptionMain challenges identified

  8. Technological developmentKey issues • Present technology sufficient? • Has been and development • Further development necessary • Identified three areas • Equipment (cages, nets, moorings) • Technology • New species and disease research

  9. Major issues Cage design and equipment Personal training Personal equipment Accident and emergency services Technological developmentSafety requirement in Offshore Aquaculture

  10. Technological developmentEquipment • Five points identified • Cages • Mooring • Nets • Feed barges • Fish handling • But evenly distributed • Development needed!

  11. Not so clear across regions single points Feeding systems Environmental monitoring Automated cleaning systems Stock monitoring equipment Mortality management Technological developmentTechnology

  12. Strong regional differences Sea trout, red sea bream and hake Cod, Common sea bream, Rock Cod Salmon (Scandinavia and Ireland/UK) Turbot (Spain and Portugal) Sea bass and Tuna (Spain and Portugal) Technological developmentPotential new species for OA

  13. Environmental concerns and bio-security issuesMajor impacts • Regional differences • Scandinavia: Escapees • Nutrient loading • Sustainable feed • Ireland and UK: Sustainable feed • Nutrient loading • Escapees • Spain and Portugal: More evenly • Benthic impact • Nutrient loading • Escapees

  14. Environmental concerns and bio-security issuesWill OA mitigate environmental impacts • More than 60% yes • No regional differences • Stakeholder perception • Ireland and UK

  15. Regulation and planning frameworkRegulatory framework • Framework in place? • No clear answer • Regional differences • Licensing process adequate? • No • Need attention • Length of application • Site designation – marine spatial planning

  16. Regulation and planning frameworkImportant factor in spatial planning • Tools to improve the knowledge gap • Predictive modelling • Criteria for best available locations • EU Water directive • Regulate nutrient release • Implications • National Monitoring Programmes

  17. Conclusions • Basis for conclusions for OATP • 119 answers and 111 attendants • Good mix of stakeholders • Offshore Aquaculture can provide a solution • Need for marine protein - meeting the FAO forecast • Mitigate environmental impacts • Need of technological development • Common equipment • Communication • New species • Need of development of legislative framework • Marine spatial planning • Site selection

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