Goals
The Marine Invertebrate Aquaculture laboratory promotes knowledge and innovation, in an integrated approach to research with the support of various actors in the aquaculture sector, with the aim of actively contributing to food production and sustainable exploitation of resources.
Research activities
- Nutrition
- Identification of nutrition needs
- Development of diets
- Reproduction
- Manipulation of the reproductive cycle
- Establishment of quality indexes
- Zootechnics
- Knowledge and manipulation of the gametogenic cycle
- Conducting environment-aquaculture interaction studies
Laboratory / Equipments
The Marine Invertebrate Aquaculture laboratory includes individualized rooms for food production (phytoplankton), broodstock conditioning and spawning induction, larval, post-larval and juvenile culture, in addition to the rooms for supporting biological analysis. This laboratory is equipped with a state-of-the-art aquaculture experimental recirculation system (RAS), systems for studies to assess the effect of climate change on the development of various species and essential equipment in biological, biometric and biochemical analysis.
Tank room
Washing room
Marine Biology Laboratory
Production of microalgae (small volumes) 
Microscopy room
Production of microalgae (large volumes)
Projects
AIM
Innovation and Enhancement of Marine Invertebrate Aquaculture
CRASSOREAB
Rehabilitation of Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata production using native microalgae
COCKLES
Co-Operation for Restoring CocKle SheLlfisheries and its Ecosystem-Services in the Atlantic Area (AA)
Venus
Integral study of natural banks of bivalve molluscs in the Gulf of Cadiz for their sustainable management and conservation of associated habitats
TOOLS4BREED
Challenge tests and genetic markers for Perkinsus as a tool for Ruditapes decussatus’ selective breeding
MP-BITOX
Microplastics in bivalves: identification of sensitive species in Portugal and assessment of microplastic-toxin aggregates toxicity
AQUA&AMBI II
Management support of wetlands on the coast of the Iberian Southwest: interactions between Aquaculture and the Environment in the cross-border region of Alentejo-Algarve-Andalusia
Team
Domitília Matias
Researcher
Sandra Joaquim
Senior Technician
Ana Margarete Ramos
Senior Technician
Cláudia Roque
Senior Technician
João Maurício Teixeira
Technician
Ana Rato
PhD student
Catarina Anjos
PhD student
Anabela Dias
Scholarship holder
Collaborations
- Producer cooperatives and associations
- Cooperativa Formosa
- Companies
- OceanoFresco
- Individual entrepreneurs
- Universities
- Research Centers