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OVERALL OBJECTIVES- To encourage the development towards an environmental sound and healthy, and at the same time economic viable and social accepted freshwater aquaculture.
- To expand the knowledge base and the commercial image of the European freshwater aquaculture farmers by training them in:
| 1. Diversifying their markets/ products/ services (e.g. through diversification of fish species,
innovative by-products as valuable resources for the chemical, the cosmetic, the energy or the food
industry), | | | 2. Improving their product quality (taste and compounds; reduction of medicaments and antibiotics),
and with this consumers’ confidence and acceptance, | | | 3. Improving their production process efficiency and profitability: • Increase the fish performance/output/price per output in relation to a certain investment unit
• Reducing energy costs by an increased energy efficiency and/ or own production
• Reducing wastewater treatment costs by a decreased amount of wastewater volume and waste
discharge
• Reducing costs for fish feed by higher nutrient utilisation efficiency or own production
• Reducing labour costs per produced products
• Reducing transport costs
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- To improve farmers’ ability to compete with low-cost aquaculture products from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.
- To respond to European and national legal and customers’ (supermarkets, individuals) requirements related to product quality, and environmental and health issues.
- To provide a high nutrition value for the consumer (fish quality).
- To create more employment especially in rural areas, and throughout the whole aquaculture production chain.
- To strengthening a sustainable development of rural areas.
SPECIFIC SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES
Sustainable energy management:
- To reduce the necessary energy input as far as possible
- To replace non-renewable energy input as far as possible by sustainable produced renewable energy input.
- To reduce the transport distances (to produce as close as possible near the farm).
Sustainable water management:
- To re-use water as far as possible
- To reduce the amount of wastewater discharge to nearly zero
- To support local climate stabilisation by increasing evapotranspiration: increasing the amount of constructed wetlands/ open water.
Sustainable nutrient management:
- To use the nutrient input as effective as possible: To produce from a certain unit of nutrient input as far marketable products in a high quality as possible.
- To reduce the amount of nutrient-, minerals- and organic material losses to nearly zero.
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