From Sea to Society
Creating a sustainable and efficient Low Trophic Aquaculture Chain
Funded
The Netherlands
From 2022
What we are doing
The Project
From Sea to Society (FS2S) aims to create a sustainable and efficient low trophic aquaculture (LTA) value chain, combining seaweed and mussel cultivation. The project is led by Klaas Timmermans (NIOZ). Research is focused on selective breeding of sterile Saccharina latissima (sugar kelp), innovative biorefinery of seaweed biomass using marine funghi, and research into the carrying capacity of natural marine ecosystems. An essential aspect of the research in this consortium is the key position of PhD students, facilitating them to become experts in their fields.
Learnings of this project are shared in a “learning community”, which was expanded to also include PhD students from Wageningen University, Hortimare employees, and other institutes, such as Deltares.
Hortimare closely collaborates with one of the PhD students (Job Cohen, NIOZ) by supplying seed stock for kelp crosses, facilitating and supporting field trails, as well as sharing of expertise and experience. Our scientists Jessica Schiller, Gabriel Montecinos Arismendi and Brigit Reus have co-authored his first publication.
To learn more, watch the project background video (in Dutch).
Consortium Partners
- NIOZ
- Hortimare
- Westerdijk Institute
- North Sea Farmers
- Roem van Yerseke
- Stichting Zeeschelp
- Dutch Seaweed Group
- Wageningen Marine Research
- Orsted
- Province Zeeland – Agriculture & Fisheries department
- Colruyt
- FI&S
- Green Marine Farming
- WWF
- Wageningen Research Food Safety Research
- Dutch mussel trade and Mussel taskforce
01-08-2022 / 31-07-2026
(NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research)
Hortimare is one of the important users of the research results that we think we can achieve within FS2S. In particular, the results in the field of breeding seaweeds so that highly productive varieties can be developed.