Sustainable Extensive and Semi-intensive Coastal Aquaculture in Southern Europe
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The project will be based on case studies covering a wide variety of production systems and geographical locations. These systems, their main problems and current stage of development are as follows:
Semi-extensive nurseries in lagoons/ponds (Greece, France, Italy, Portugal)
In order to improve performance of fish juveniles in extensive and semi-intensive on-growing...
Semi-intensive polyculture in earthen ponds (Portugal and Spain)
Earthen ponds are the main production system for seabass and seabream in Portugal and in Southern Spain...
Integrated system: Treatment of fish hatchery effluents by extensive pond culture (France)
Integrated aquaculture systems are interesting to reduce the environmental impacts of intensive aquaculture systems...
Valliculture (Italy)
Italian ‘valliculture’ is a peculiar activity differing from the traditional lagoon management...
Integrated management of marine extensive ponds and lagoons for a sustainable eel fishery (France)
Eel extensive culture has been a lucrative activity on the western south coast of Europe in France...
Extensive polyculture (Spain)
Extensive fish culture in earthen ponds - “esteros” is a traditional activity in the salt-marshes area surrounding the Bay of Cadiz (S.W. Spain)...