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18 Mar 2021 12:00

MAtchmaking Restoration, Ecology and Aquaculture (MAREA) : a new Marie Sklodowska-Curie project

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Camilla Bertolini, PhD, DAIS - Ca' Foscari

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Abstract:
Bivalve aquaculture is considered to be one of the most sustainable forms of proteic food supply, although some potentially negative environmental impacts arising from high deposition rates of faces and pseudofaces on the seabed have been identified. Habitat restoration management can be integrated within aquaculture practices to limit their negative impacts, bringing positive environmental changes while obtaining both economical and cultural returns. This project aims to reintroduce native flat Oyster reefs under mussels culture sites and address the possibility of harvesting the oyster spat recruiting as seeds in the original farm area to start a local oyster farming chain, while monitoring the ecosystem services provided by the restored reef. This will be done combining modelling and experimental approaches, with a pilot site in the Adriatic sea. Climate change scenarios will be applied to identify the long-term potential of this approach in this fast warming area.

Bio Sketch:
Camilla Bertolini has a BSc(Hons) in Marine Biology and Costal Ecology from Plymouth University and a PhD in Biology from Queen’s University Belfast. After two years of postdoctoral research at the Netherlands Institute of Sea Research she is a researcher at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venezia.

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Roberto Pastres

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