The aquatic products sector
in action

What is your area of business? Conegan is a service provider. Its core business is the packaging of frozen products. To support its customers, the company has developed new skills upstream and downstream of packaging with several workshops dedicated to specific techniques: cutting, foreign body detection, sorting, freezing and defrosting. Fifteen production lines allow us […]

Although the topic of packaging is not new, it has taken on a new dimension with recent developments. Indeed, today it is a question of responding to a regulatory demand (AGEC law), but also to consumers who are more and more concerned about the environment. Another current fact, the covid-19 pandemic has led to a […]

The morning lectures provided an overview of the welfare issue in aquaculture. An introduction by Nikos Zampoukas of the DG RTD.C.4 and European representative of the SCARFISH initiative provided an opportunity to lay out the regulatory framework, research programs, projects, and strategies to better understand and control/monitor animal welfare during aquaculture production. Presentations then took […]

On July 15, Jérémy Devogel, skipper of the Néreïdes II, was carrying on board nearly 3,000 m of biodegradable, biosourced, recyclable net without the spread of microplastic. In June 2020, he was already testing the first prototype: 1,000 m of the new material had been inserted into a gillnet. This is the net – composed […]

During 4 days, the sea and the maritime world were honored. Various activities were offered: sea trips, sea songs, maritime traditions, tasting of sea products. At the heart of the space dedicated to research and development, AQUIMER presented its role as a competitiveness cluster and its various missions to visitors. The younger visitors were also […]

With a budget of 175 million euros for the period 2021-2027, this Interreg program promotes collaboration with 6 countries in the North Sea region: Belgium (Flemish Region), Germany (North-East territories), the Netherlands, Sweden (South-West territory), Denmark and Norway (associated partner/southern territories). This cooperation area has 60 million inhabitants, a surface area of 536,000 km2 and […]

During the first 10 days of July, the EU organized a series of information days for researchers, innovators and potential applicants. AQUIMER participated on July 7 and 8 in the days dedicated to the 2021-2024 work program for cluster 6 “Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and environment”. The speakers underlined the central role of Cluster […]

What is your area of business? ADNucleis is a manufacturer of PCR kits for the analysis and research of bacteria, viruses and parasites; PCR technology has been widely recognized thanks to COVID; previously it was an interesting technology but reserved for emergencies or particular problems such as viruses, which are generally difficult to cultivate. In […]

Quelle est votre activité ? Les 2 chalutiers de l’armement pêchent et surgèlent à bord des poissons dits pélagiques : hareng, maquereau, chinchard, merlan bleu. Un poisson est appelé pélagique lorsqu’il vit dans les eaux proches de la surface ou entre la surface et le fond. La plupart des poissons pélagiques sont grégaires, ce qui signifie qu’ils […]