Aquaculture of Marine Invertebrates

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.

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)

SNMB-Sul III

Portuguese National Bivalve Monitoring System

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

VALORMAR

Integral Valorization of Marine Resources

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