TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ADRIATIC MARICULTURE USING NEW FEED FORMULATIONS: THE ADRIAQUANET PROJECT

The INTERREG project AdriAquaNet (https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/adriaquanet), coordinated by Udine University, aims at enhancing the sustainable development of Adriatic mariculture and fostering cooperation between Italian and Croatian operators. In order to achieve these goals, the project is developing innovations concerning the whole seabass and seabream supply chain. In particular, the project focuses on: 1) farm management, fish nutrition and waste disposal; 2) fish health and welfare; 3) new added value products. The project also tests a comprehensive monitoring system, which integrates the real time monitoring of relevant environmental parameters, i.e. water temperature and dissolved oxygen, footage captured with high resolution video camera, which allows monitoring fish behaviour and simulation models. In this paper, preliminary results of fish growth performance using a novel feed formulation including insects and poultry PAP at lab scale and in at operational level, are also presented.