A sea of Excellence

Marine Technology  Center, Institute for Marine Research, Vigo Center for Oceanography, Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Faculty of Marine Sciences, School of Veterinary Sciences; School of Engineering for Natural Resources and the Environment, Technological Institute for the Control of the Marine Environment, Center for Marine Research, Galician Institute for Training in Aquaculture, Marine Sciences…

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Shellfish season: watch your diet

Summer is here and delicious shellfish appear more tempting than ever, offering exquisite flavors and textures and allowing us to savor the taste of the sea. It is worth considering the nutritional virtues and flaws derived from the consumption of this type of seafood, which includes two well differentiated categories: crustaceans and molluscs. Crustaceans such…

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Environmental Regeneration of the Fúquene Lagoon

The Regional Autonomous Corporation of Colombia (CAR) has relied on Watermaster technology to carry out recovery work on the lagoon complex formed by Fúquene, Cucunubá and Palacio east of the Andes. The Fúquene lagoon, about 30 km2 in extension, is located between the Cundinamarca and Boyacá departments, at an altitude of 2,540 meters, about 80…

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Watermaster in the Mar Menor

During the months of February and March the regional government has carried out a number of experiences throughout several coastal locations for the cleaning of sediments in the Mar Menor in Murcia, SE Spain. These tasks are based on the use of Watermaster, the Finnish-made unique ecodredge, in combination with the geotube technology for the…

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New Aquaculture documentary on TV

A comprehensive television report will be broadcasted this December in the Reporter 21 program of the Orbe channel (Movistar TV). Filmed in different locations during the summer of this year by Roberto Benito, and produced by Cristina Gómez and Rocío García de Mora, the report covers different aspects of the production and commercialization of mollusks,…

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A sea of Excellence

Marine Technology  Center, Institute for Marine Research, Vigo Center for Oceanography, Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Faculty of Marine Sciences, School of Veterinary Sciences; School of Engineering for Natural Resources and the Environment, Technological Institute for the Control of the Marine Environment, Center for Marine Research, Galician Institute for Training in Aquaculture, Marine Sciences…

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Holy Water

Ever since the times of Roman domination, through Muslim Spain to the development of modern irrigation and the arrival of the dictatorship, water management in the Iberian Peninsula has been characterized by the use of a limited resource under conditions of great conflict. While Spain has the highest number of large dams per inhabitant worldwide,…

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Technical Workshop on Watermaster’s New Capacities

Acuinuga cooperates with Aquamec, the Finnish manufacturer of the Watermaster ecodredge, in the presentation of the new configurations and capabilities of this unique multifunctional tool: – Perfect  for the dredging of shallow waters in estuaries, canals, lagoons, ponds, marshes, estuaries, rivers, etc.; – Maximum efficiency in the suction and cutting of mud and sludge, backhoe dredging, removal of excess vegetation, piling…

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Complementing the complement

For decades the European political discourse has kept a conciliatory, ambiguous position over the development of aquaculture, defending that it will never replace the fisheries industry, becoming instead a complement for the supply of the seafood that fisheries can no longer bring up to the markets. But when aquaculture produces half of the global seafood…

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A new opportunity for Portuguese aquaculture

The Mar 2020 programme, currently with open calls and co-financed by European Union funds, offers subsidies for productive investments in aquaculture projects throughout continental Portugal, which can reach very generous funding levels. The 27 million euros (M€) budget in the current call, setting up a ceiling of 6.5 M€ per project, make it a powerful…

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