Technical Assistance for Marine Aquaculture in the Open Ocean
Marine Living Resources and Aquaculture
Bremerhaven
Germany
English
Job
Application Deadline: 25 June 2023
Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Global food security, human health and well-being are at serious jeopardy as marine resource production can no longer be sustained by ecosystems and natural fisheries production only. Broad evidence supports the potential of low trophic aquatic food to reduce food and nutrition insecurity in a changing climate, delivering essential ecosystem services and enabling achieving UN SDGs. Expansion of low trophic aquaculture (LTA) for increasing seafood production are faced with opportunities in unexploited regions and environments and maximizing benefits of marine space by considering low impact multi-use (MU) of space such as combining wind farm areas and integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA). The main objective of OLAMUR is to bring together MU-LTA related key sectors, to demonstrate sustainable commercial solutions for both the North and the Baltic Sea. OLAMUR will focus on three pilots (Germany, Denmark, and Estonia) that will serve as testing and demonstration sites. Here, we focus on an aquaculture-offshore wind farm-multi-use-scenario in the German Bight next to Helgoland, to farm seaweed and bivalves in the open ocean.