AZTI’s scientists studying the anchovy stock in spring in the Bay of Biscay estimate that the biomass is among the three largest registered ones since the Bioman studies began in 1987. According to data obtained by our scientists, preliminary estimates indicate that the anchovy biomass currently exceeds 120,000 tonnes. Read more →
AZTI, together with a delegation of other seven Basque companies, led by the Basque Energy Cluster, travelled to Ireland from 16 to 18 May to identify possible opportunities for technological and commercial cooperation with Irish institutions and companies of the marine energy sector. Read more →
There are huge untapped resources of protein in the deep sea, but any potential exploitation should be done with caution, states the research community. An international research group, led by AZTI researcher Xabier Irigoien, last year estimated that the so-called twilight zone (200 to 1,000 meters), maintains a community of fish, squid and crustaceans whose biomass far surpasses all the world’s current fisheries. Furthermore, it is currently estimated that there are more than 1 million undescribed species in the twilight zone. According to the study, the twilight zone contains up to 90 percent of the world’s total fish biomass. There are so many creatures here that if estimates hold, it would be equivalent to 1.3 tons of fish biomass per person on earth, and that excludes squid and krill. Read more →
(March 3 2016) The new tool is called NEAT, which stands for Nested Environmental status Assessment Tool. “NEAT allows us to assess the environmental status of Europeanseas in an integrative way”, says Dr Borja of AZTI in Spain, an expert on marine biodiversity and coordinator of the European research project DEVOTES. “This is the result of collaborative effort of 23 partners, distributed across 14 countries, after four years of research in the Baltic, Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Seas” says Dr Borja. “Our research is important for improving the understanding of the effects of human activities on marine biodiversity, as well as variations due to climate change”.
The technology centre AZTI is participating in a project to develop and validate a technology-based sensor system for objectively classifying fish freshness.
This study is funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, and is coordinated by the National Federation of Provincial Fish and Frozen Product Retail Entrepreneurs (FEDEPESCA). Read more →
The presence of pathogenic microorganisms, in other words, those that cause diseases, is one of the main problems fish farms are facing. To look for a solution that does not affect the health of the fish or of consumers, Azti-Tecnalia is coordinating a project to identify bacteriophages, organisms that infect and destroy bacteria; this move is designed to put an end to these pathogens without affecting the communities of environmental and intestinal bacteria in aquaculture. Read more →
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