AquaIMPACT was an EU-funded Horizon 2020 Innovation Action with the aim to take research results into practice.

During the last 5 years, several genomic and nutritional products, software, hardware, improved services and practices have been demonstrated to be useful and cost-effective. AquaIMPACT produced 13 Business plans and 7 Exploitation plans for the developed products, protocols, services and results.

The AquaIMPACT partners are naturally the first-hand end users of the results, but the generated knowledge can be exploited globally and across species. Typical end users are breeding programme and broodstock managers, feed companies, producers of feed ingredients, technology and genotyping companies, and fish farmers. AquaIMPACT partners are among the most significant feed companies, breeding companies and fish producers in Europe, and globally. A unique feature of AquaIMPACT is that some of the partners provide services and consulting on feed development and breeding programmes, ensuring direct wider distribution of the results.

The table below summarizes the AquaIMPACT products and services that are commercially exploited, many of them are in use already.

RESULT / PRODUCT / SERVICE
 AquaIMPACT END USERS AND CREATORS
Documentation that aquaculture selective breeding programmes improve resource efficiency, product quality and reduce nutritional loading to aquatic environment (rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon, gilthead sea bream and European sea bass).
 

Selection, genotyping and computational tools for genomic selection of novel traits and traits recorded under industrial facilities, such as disease resistance and product quality.

 End users and creators:

  • SYSAAF Syndicat des Sélectionneurs Avicoles et Aquacoles Français
  • Benchmark Genetics Norway AS
  • MOWI ASA
  • Les Sources de l’Avance
  • Fermes Marines du Soleil
  • Ecloserie Marine de Gravelines Ichtus
  • Hanka Taimen Oy
  • Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke
  • Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Research partner creators:

  • INRAE
  • Institut Français de Recherche pour l’Exploitation de la Mer
  • NOFIMA AS
  • The University of Edinburgh
  • Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

 
Software, genetic computing and bioinformatics protocols and services for SMEs and global companies to implement selective breeding and genomic selection in a cost-effective manner.
 End users and creators:

  • Benchmark Genetics Norway AS
  • Wageningen University (and Research)
  • SYSAAF Syndicat des Sélectionneurs Avicoles et Aquacoles Francais
Functional feed additives and feed formulas of alternative feed ingredients (plant, insect, algae, single-cell protein) and feeding strategies to ensure feed supply, and to improve product quality and fish health.
 End users and creators:

  • INVE Technologies NV
  • Skretting Aquaculture Innovation AS
  • MOWI ASA
  • Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • SPAROS Lda

Research partner creators:

  • INRAE
  • NOFIMA AS
  • The University of Stirling
Genotyping and bioinformatics methods to analyze gut microbiota that are impacted by age, feeds, feed additives, environment and genetic background. End users and creators:

  • Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC
  • Universita degli Studi dell’Insubria
  • Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Software for feed development and evaluation, and automated fish trait recording and selection.
 End users and creators:

  • Dorset Identification B.V.
  • SPAROS Lda
  • Wageningen University (and Research)

Research partner creators:

  • Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, CSIC
  • Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke
Knowledge how consumers react to novel information about feeds, breeding and aquaculture production methods, which help to develop communication with the consumers. Research partner creators:

  • AgroParisTech
  • INRAE
  • Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
  • Natural Resources Institute Finland, Luke