Aquaetreat: AquaEtreat Workshop Aqua 2006

AquaEtreat had a workshop at Florence Aqua2006 (Friday 12th May). The workshop was a success as it was attended by more than 80 people. Please find below the program of the workshop together with the presentations of the speakers. The compilation of abstracts can be found via the link on the right panel of this page.

Program Workshop

Programme - 13.50 till 17.30	Presenter
Welcome and objectives of the workshop	Nick Read (FEAP)

First Session: Challenges for European Aquaculture
Why treat water? Policies and Issues	Courtney Hough (FEAP)
Aquaetreat: A European collective research project for improving aquaculture sustainability	Vincenzo Zonno (University of Lecce)
Engineering and economics of effluent treatment	Brigide Loix (STM Aquatrade)
Discussion with panel

Second Session: Management of fish farm effluent
Aquaetreat case studies in the field:
Murgat: a flow-through trout farm in France	Emmanuelle Roque (IFREMER)
Hoghoj: a trout farm with water recirculation in Denmark	Bob Lovitt (University of Wales)
Maribrin - a flow-through marine farm in Italy	Licinio Corbari (Maribrin)
Bluewater Flatfish - a turbot farm with water recirculation in Wales (UK)	David Fletcher (Mon Aqua Tech)

Third Session: Waste Assessment and Options for the fish farmer
Solutions for sludge reuse	Guy Donaldson (IGER)

Round Table discussion	Nick Read (Moderator)

Conclusions	The Panel

Description of workshop

The Workshop at Florence, started at 13.50 on Friday 12 May in the hall of the Exhibition, had presentations from the partners in the project, bringing together expertise in a range of water treatments being developed and analysed on farms in Denmark, France and Italy.

The meeting was chaired by Nick Read from FEAP and in the first session the speakers were Courtney Hough of FEAP explaining EU Policies and Issues, Vincenzo Zonno from University of Lecce talking about the overall aims of the project and Brigide Loix explaining Engineering and Economics in Water Treatment.

After a general question and comment session and a coffee break the second session covered in detail the research work taking place on the farms. Emmanuelle Roque of IFREMER presented on Murgat, a through flow trout farm in France, Bob Lovitt from University of Wales, described Hoghoj, a freshwater recirculation farm in Denmark, Licinio Corbari talked about the work at Maribrin, a flow through Marine farm in Italy and David Fletcher explained the Bluewater Flatfish Farm that grows turbot in a recirculation unit in North Wales.

The third session considered Waste Assessment and Options with a round table discussion and gave the opportunity to question the speakers and to raise detail matters of interest.

The AquaEtreat Project is establishing sound science in what is an increasing area of interest in the industry and will lay the foundations for reduced environmental impact and improved public perception of aquaculture. With the increased attention to water quality resulting from the Water Framework Directive now being seen in EU Member States, the outcomes of AquaEtreat Project will be of interest to all fish farmers and are likely to establish new levels of best practice.