FANBEST Online training programme - Unit 6 Blue Economy

Webinar #3:

One of the challenges for humanity during this century will be to support the increase in protein requirements until 2050. Intensive land exploitation sees its limits both qualitatively and ecologically. More than 200 species of seaweed are used worldwide for human consumption or as phycocolloids for food, cosmetics or health. Seaweeds are traditionally consumed in Asian countries, especially China, Japan and Korea Seaweeds while European consumption is still confidential. This webinar focuses with the wide seaweeds potentialities, from consumer perception changes to recent advances in research. A rapid history of seaweed farming and consumption will be described, followed by current seaweed market, applications and news trends involved in aquaculture, biotechnology and transformation processes. A link with the Multi-Use Offshore Platforms (theme #1) will be made. The webinar will also review the issues and news of fishing and aquaculture, particularly in terms of resource management and regulations, particularly health.

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