AquaBioTech Group staff just concluded the first trial planned as part of PROFIUS where fish meal produced from tuna by product was included at different rates in the aquafeed. The use of tuna by-products as alternative source of protein in aquafeed for species of commercial interest is one of the main goals of the project…
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On April 1st the new lumpfish roe season started in the southern part of Greenland. This year the PROFIUS partner Royal Greenland is testing new recipes, developed as part of PROFIUS-project, for optimizing the preservation of the lumpfish roe in the land-based factories. Royal Greenland has 13 production facilities on the West Coast of Greenland…
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An important step to scale up the extraction of collagen from lumpfish was made at Breid biotech laboratories in March 2024 and it was reported in Fiskifrettir, a local trade newspaper. The process developed included the pre-cleaning, acid extraction and ultrafiltration of collagen from approximately 200kg of lumpfish skin. This work was part of University…
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PROFIUS Maltese partner AquaBioTech Group organised a workshop on Friday, March 1st, to showcase the results of the work to improve the utilization of tuna side-stream. Several stakeholders from private and public sector were involved in the discussion. Maltese project coordinator Dr Simona Paolacci explained to the public the work that AquaBioTech Group, along with…
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On February 1st the consortium met in an online project meeting to present and discuss the progress. This was the 8th consortium meeting, less than one year from the end of the project, closing at the end of September 2024. Important results were presented by different partners. Prof. Lisbeth Truelstrup Hansen (DTU) presented the results…
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From 5-6 October 2023 the PROFIUS partners were united in Iceland for project meeting. Even though it was the end of the 2nd year of the project, it was the first time the partners were united at a physical meeting. The meeting was arranged as a hybrid meeting, so apart from the 10 people who…
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Poster about PROFIUS selected for oral presentation at Aquaculture Europe 2023 A poster about the work done by AquaBioTech Group, in Malta, as part of PROFIUS, was submitted to Aquaculture Europe 2023, a conference that took place in Vienna (Austria) from September 18th to 22nd. The title of the poster was “Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus…
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AquaBioTech Group RDI Technician Jui-Che Chiang came back from a training on lipid extraction and oxidative status assessment organised by DTU – Technical University of Denmark – one of our partners in the Profius Project. With their international expertise and years of experience in similar projects, DTU was the perfect institution to provide the qualified…
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26 BlueBio funded projects met to discuss opportunities for commercialisation support, as the first cohort of projects are entering their final year. This event was the fourth thematic “e-coffee” meeting organised by the BlueBio ERA-Net. The objective of the meeting is to map the commercialization needs and interests in the projects funded by BlueBio and…
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Reducing food loss and waste has a critical part to play in addressing nutrition security for a growing population within planetary boundaries. It is a topic being addressed by numerous initiatives at policy and private sector levels, with a view to achieving UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12.3 – however, seafood is rarely addressed. This…
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