science and technology can help you to improve performance and profitability
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BlueBRIDGE receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020
research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 675680 www.bluebridge-vres.eu
Science and technology can help you to
improve performance and profitability!
Kostas Seferis, [email protected]
Yanbu, KSA
27-28 January 2016
Aquaculture Investment Opportunities in Saudi Arabia Forum
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 licence.
Attribution: BlueBRIDGE – www.bluebridge-vres.eu
Sector context
Aquaculture is one of the biggest food producing sectors
providing over 50% of the world’s fish consumption.
Global production is forecasted to increase from 45 million tons
in 2014 to 85 million by 2030, making the aquaculture industry
the fastest growing animal food production sector in the world.
There are major challenges that have to be addressed:
• maintaining the economic viability of the sector by reducing
costs and increasing production
• guaranteeing high quality food and animal welfare
• addressing environmental concerns.
Needs and challenges
If you are an aquaculture producer one of your main concerns
day to day is:
how can I improve the performance of my company in terms of
cost, feed conversion, growth rate and mortality
and at the same time,
reduce the impact on the environment?
It is not only equipment and
hardware!
Unfortunately, answering this question is not that simple.
You can invest in the latest technology for your cages or on the
most advanced feeding systems but you cannot forget two key
aspects:
• aquaculture comes with its own array of environmental
challenges that have a huge impact on your production
system;
• An aquaculture business can be sustainable only if you are
able to continuously monitor and improve its performance
Mission Statement
BlueBRIDGE will provide innovative data services that will
benefit all the stakeholders of the aquaculture sector. The
project will support
• Companies to maximize the growth rate, reduce costs and
minimize the impact on the environment
• Investors to make efficient identification of strategic
locations of interest and select the most profitable
investments
• Governments and environmental agencies to evaluate the
current situation and define policies
• Researchers to generate new knowledge and evaluate the
practical indicators of aquafarming performance
What is BlueBRIDGE
BlueBRIDGE is a 5.3 Million Euro H2020 project launched last
September (www.bluebrigde-vres.eu) aimed at delivering
services to serve data practitioners of the Blue Growth sector.
It brings together scientists, practitioners and experts from
different disciplines (e.g. fisheries, biology, economics, statistics,
environment, etc), who are individually considered as world
leaders in their respective areas (http://www.bluebridge-
vres.eu/about/who-is-involved)
FAO is one of the main partners
Performance evaluation and
improvement
BlueBRIDGE will offer analysis and simulation algorithms of the
aquaManager system (www.aqua-manager.com) to the
aquaculture community, through the project infrastructure
Theses services will enable companies to
• Calculate performance in terms of main production KPIs
• Develop accurate feeding and growth models, based on the
realities and the conditions of each company. The result is
accurate feeding, better predictions and plans, identification
of populations that are not performing well
• Benchmark their performance by comparing their results to
“global” models for selected species and regions
Investment Planning
BlueBRIDGE will provide services and an extendible, open,
geospatial analysis and optimization system to support
intelligent identification of locations of interest, as required by
both investors seeking optimization of intended investments
If you are a potential investor you will use these services to find
out
• How fast fish grow in the selected area?
• What will be the final FCR, Mortality %, Cost, etc.
• What are the environmental parameters of the region
• Information on the infrastructure, development planning and
legislation
Research and policy making
BlueBRIDGE will support
• Collaborative production of scientific knowledge required for
monitoring fisheries and habitat degradation for analysing
socio-economic performance in aquaculture .
• Scientists to easily access published data sources and existing
models and use them in their activity aiming at developing
new models or fine tuning existing ones
• Governments to identify areas that are becoming of
environmental importance and design policies and plans.
Aquaculture Atlas and Protected
Area Impact Maps
BlueBRIDGE will use observational data and ontologies to
identify spatial structures related to aquaculture, and provides
the assessment environment to produce an aquaculture
atlas.
It will also support spatial planning projects by providing existing
rich analytical data platforms with additional
EO based information products related to human impacts on
natural systems, with an initial focus on Natura2000 sites
and Marine Protected Areas
A practical example//models
• We want to improve growth and feeding models, based on
actual data.
• Then we want to use these models to optimize the feeding
and reduce the costs
• And finally make predictions based on historical data and
select the most efficient and profitable strategies
A practical example//input - output
InputActual data of selected fish populations
OutputNew or improved SGR, FCR, SFR or mortality tables = better predictions,
better feed planning, better performance evaluation
AvWeight Temp FCR
0,75 15,00 1,210
6,00 18,00 1,135
6,00 14,00 1,402
… … …
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
0,50-4 1,487 1,421 1,356 1,291 1,227 1,168 1,114
4-8 1,576 1,511 1,445 1,38 1,317 1,257 1,203
8-20 1,692 1,627 1,562 1,497 1,433 1,373 1,32
20-50 1,778 1,712 1,647 1,582 1,518 1,459 1,405
50-100 1,829 1,764 1,699 1,633 1,57 1,51 1,456
100-
150 1,96 1,895 1,83 1,765 1,701 1,642 1,588
What will be the cost to use
these services?This is the best part.
It will be absolutely free, no cost at all! All the services will be
offered to the sector for free!
Thank you for your attention!!!
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