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Project acronym: AQUABEST

Project title: Innovative practices and technologies for developing sustainable aquaculture in the Baltic Sea region

Application call: 4

Priority: 3. Baltic Sea as a common resource

Project website: www.aquabestproject.eu

Information Manager:

Summary description of the project:

Aquaculture has been the fastest growing food production sector during the last two decades. In the Baltic Sea region, though, the industry has stagnated or even decreased. The goal for the Aquabest project is to change this trend. However, the future growth in aquaculture production has to be built on sustainable practices and technologies.

Aquabest aims to:

1. Start a self-evaluation of the environmental legislation and licensing system of the Baltic Sea region aquaculture.

2. Demonstrate a spatial planning process for sustainable aquaculture.

3. Close the nutrient loop of Baltic Sea aquaculture through fish feeds based on regional ingredients.

4. Create innovative concepts for land-based farms and transfer the technology throughout the region.

Aquaculture regulations in the Baltic Sea region require new environmental policies and economic incentives. Current licensing systems do not encourage the adoption of eco-efficient technologies and practices.

The aim is to suggest hands-on improvements, alternative policy instruments and incentives. Locally focused control-and-command regulations should be expanded to a sea-wide ecosystem approach, supported by local regulations.

One of Aquabest's objectives is to improve spatial planning to create new sustainable aquaculture. Aquabest will produce a spatial planning manual for aquaculture. The manual, intended for local, regional and national authorities in the region, will show a path to new sustainable, conflict free locations for aquaculture farms. At these newly discovered sites new farming technologies, such as robust offshore cages and mussel farms will be adapted.

Aquabest attempts to close the nutrient loop of the Baltic Sea: turn aquaculture from net ocean nutrient importer to a nutrient-neutral system. This is accomplished by creating incentives and technologies for using regionally produced feed ingredients, such

as detoxified Baltic Sea fish meal, farmed mussel, microbial meal and by-products from crop. The costs and benefits of nutrient recycling will be demonstrated through pilot farming of trout, charr and turbot.

A technological shift in land-based aquaculture is underway in Denmark, and production is increasing with no additional nutrient pollution. This is enabled by the use of a unique recirculation farming concept, which brings major environmental benefits in addition to being economically viable. Aquabest will explore how these technologies could also be used in coastal areas with limited access to fresh water. A feasibility study manual for the Danish farm concept will be produced and field tested. Competitiveness will be tested through economic feasibility calculations. Also an intensive recirculation training course will be arranged.

Aquabest project has 14 partners, consisting of regional authorities, producer organizations, universities and stakeholders from 8 BSR countries.

Achievements of the project so far:

Aquabest has progressed in all four themes towards sustainable aquaculture in the BSR.

Firstly, Code of Conduct for responsible aquaculture in the Baltic Sea Region, a result of a process conducted by flagship project BESTAQ of the EUSBSR, has been printed, published on Aquabest website and delivered to relevant international decision makers such as BALTFISH, HELCOM and EU Commission as well as to national decision makers.

As far as legislative framework is concerned, licensing system is very heterogenous across the BSR. There are only limited amount of incentives in the legislation. Instead, fish farming sector experiences red tape in several countries. To overcome these obstacles, Aquabest is involved in a regional pilot at Åland in a form of a dialogue within their government to introduce incentive elements in the legislation, such as taking into account nutrient recirculation via fish feeds. Changes in legislation are expected to take place already during the project lifespan.

Aquaculture Spatial Planning Manual of Aquabest is being field tested through Jämtland, Kalmar and Åland spatial planning processes. These cases will be throughly evaluated to serve as roadmaps for aquaculture spatial planning in other BSR regions. Regional spatial planning activities are ongoing involving numerous stakeholder consulations, which is an essential part of successful spatial planning. In Jämtland and Kalmar, GIS-based ranking of areas for new aquaculture activities has been prepared. Since spatial planning will show more conflict-free and ecologically less sensitive areas further from the coast towards the harsh open sea conditions, Aquabest has been active in cage farming technology issues. A weather statistic analyses and more site-specific wind and wave condition analyses has been conducted. This report was used by the international market leader in cage farming technology, during their specialists visit at potential new farming sites.

For mussel farming, existing information on technology for especially icy conditions has been reviewed and a collaborative workshop with Submariner-project was organized on the theme. In the four day workshop, two days were devoted to start the series of Aquabest roundtable discussions with the feed industry, fish farmers and decision makers on the Baltic Sea region -sourced fish feed ingredients.

The first pilot farming using regionally sourced feed ingredients has been completed. Rainbow trout performed in net cages in the Baltic Sea equally well in comparison to commercial-type feeds. Full nutrient recirculation at the Baltic Sea level was achieved and 20% of nutrients were recirculated locally using mussel meal and local fish silage in the feed.

To promote adoption of new technologies for the land-based farming, tests to develope nitrogen removal have been started, and preparations for intensive course on the water recirculation technology were initialized.

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