Descripción del proyecto
Búsqueda de un mejor uso de los subproductos de la industria pesquera
La industria pesquera europea procesa más de cinco millones de toneladas de pescado cada año, de las cuales prácticamente dos tercios acaban como subproductos. Estos subproductos son utilizados como pienso animal de bajo valor o bien son desechados, lo que supone un coste para las empresas implicadas. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos WASEABI busca revertir esta tendencia a través de nuevas soluciones de almacenamiento, tecnologías de clasificación, herramientas de decisión y otras soluciones tecnológicas para impulsar la explotación de los subproductos pesqueros. El objetivo es garantizar la reconversión de estas materias primas en productos comercializables que transformen los subproductos en fuentes de ingresos. WASEABI adoptará una perspectiva global de la cadena de suministro para la producción de péptidos bioactivos de gran calidad para aplicaciones de nutracéuticos, alimentos y piensos, así como de ingredientes alimentarios a base de proteínas, saborizantes y suplementos minerales.
Objetivo
The current exploitation of the aquatic resources is hampered by inefficiency as up to 70 % end up as low-value products or waste, which is unsustainable considering the rising populations. In order to utilise this currently poorly exploited biomass for higher value purposes, provision of proper logistics and infrastructure to ensure high quality of side-streams for a prolonged window of time is essential. Also promising technologies currently available at lab level need to be adapted to industrial scale and integrated into a biorefinery approach. The objective of the WASEABI project is to solve challenges that prevents more sound exploitation of the aquatic resources. This will be obtained by developing, sorting technologies, storage solutions and decision tools that will secure an efficient, sustainable supply system for by-catches, as well as for solid and liquid side-streams from aquaculture, fisheries and the aquatic processing industries to biorefining operations. This will result in valorisation of these raw materials into marketable products. By addressing side-streams from six different raw materials emerging from typical aquaculture, fisheries and aquatic processing industries in Europe, WASEABI will take a whole chain perspective to succeed with high quality production of: i) bioactive peptides for nutraceutical, food and feed applications, ii) protein-based food ingredients, iii) savoury ingredients and mineral supplements for food and feed. WASEABI will also construct biorefining approaches and validate selected solutions in pilot scale at the premises of participating companies. The commercial potential of the produced ingredients will be evaluated and specific environmental, economic and social impacts of the proposed solutions will be quantified. Several of the developed technologies will be transferable across seafood companies. WASEABI addresses all the objectives described for BBI 2018. SO1.R1.
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