Circular economy: Integral use of marine resources
Ensuring sustainability in fish farming industries and establishing a sustainable use of fisheries provide our society with an enormous potential to achieve a healthy and balanced nutrition for all.
However, the limitations in the availability of these resources call for a more efficient exploitation, reducing global food losses and adding value to certain industry byproducts, currently considered food waste.
On the one hand, fisheries discards, that is, non-target catches, constitute a substantial waste of resources that threatens the sustainable exploitation and economic viability of fisheries. On the other, the seafood processing industry produces many byproducts such as proteins, enzymes, fatty acids and biopolymers, which are often disposed of despite their potential for biotechnological, nutritional, pharmaceutical, and biomedical applications.
Our research along this line intends to add value to these currently wasted resources. We design and optimize eco-innovative processes and technologies to manage and valorize fishery discards and food processing industry byproducts and effluents. By doing this, we are able to obtain ingredients for aquafeed and human consumption, along with other medium-high added-value compounds of interest for the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.
Active projects
- LIFE REFISH -
Flexible biorefinery to valorise discards and by-products of the European fish and seafood production (REFISH)
Principal investigator:VázquezÁlvarezXosé AntónFunding body:LIFE Environment (Nature & Circular Economy)Funding for IIM-CSIC:357.637€Fromto - VALOR -
Valorización integral de los efluentes y residuos de pieles generados en el proceso de producción de gelatinas marinas de alta calidad
Principal investigator:VázquezÁlvarezXosé AntónFunding body:CSICFunding for IIM-CSIC:21600€Fromto - SEAFOOD-ID -
ANALYTICAL STRATEGIES BASED ON NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHODS AND METAGENOMICS FOR THE CONTROL OF PRODUCTION METHOD AND GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN
Principal investigator:GonzálezSoteloCarmenFunding body:Proyecto PID2020-118012RB-C21 financiado por MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033Funding for IIM-CSIC:168000€Fromto - Contrato Programa -
AYUDA CONVENIO ENTRE CSIC Y LA AXENCIA GALEGA DE INNOVACIÓN -GAIN- PARA EL DESARROLLO DE PROGRAMAS DE I+D+i EN LOS INSTITUTOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN DEL CSIC EN GALICIA Y EN LOS CENTROS OCEANOGRÁFICOS DEL INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA (CSIC-IEO). 2021-2022
Principal investigator:SaboridoReyFranFunding body:Agencia Galega de InnovaciónFunding for IIM-CSIC:521824€Fromto - ResiduoZero_2 -
Residuo Zero: Puesta en marcha de una planta piloto par ala transformación y elaboración de nuevos productos procedentes de la transformación de dorada y lubina Culmárex y en los planes de etiquetado de nuevos Productos.
Principal investigator:MedinaMéndezIsabelFunding body:Culmarex S.A.Funding for IIM-CSIC:24705€Fromto - BBM -
Biotecnología y Bioprocesos Marinos
Principal investigator:GonzálezSoteloCarmenFunding body:Ayudas cofinanciadas con fondos de la Agencia Gallega de Innovación de la Xunta de GaliciaFunding for IIM-CSIC:75000€Fromto - ACUIECO -
ACUICULTURA SOSTENIBLE Y ECONOMÍA CIRCULAR
Principal investigator:FernándezBabarroJose ManuelFunding body:Consello Regulador do Mexillón de GaliciaFunding for IIM-CSIC:11925€Fromto - COLAGENO -
Estructura y función del colágeno: Mapeo peptídico y aplicaciones cosméticas
Principal investigator:GonzálezSoteloCarmenFunding body:CSICFunding for IIM-CSIC:33500€Fromto Estudios de viabilidad para la valorización de cabezas de tiburón azul y de efluentes de la cocción de mejillón y de cefalópodos
Principal investigator:VázquezÁlvarezXosé AntónFunding body:Conservas RIANXEIRA SAUFunding for IIM-CSIC:84700€FromtoImpulso de la vigilancia del entorno tecnológico, refuerzo de la internacionalización, del marketing y comunicación en el Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas
Principal investigator:SaboridoReyFranFunding body:CSICFunding for IIM-CSIC:105000€Fromto- SEAFOODAGE -
Smart and eco-innovative SEAFOOD processes and products for healthy AGEing
Principal investigator:BalsaCantoEvaFunding body:Project co-funded by the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme through the European Regional Development Fund.Funding for IIM-CSIC:374161€Fromto - SEATRACES -
Smart Traceability and Labeling ToolBox for a Sustainable Seafood Production
Principal investigator:GonzálezSoteloCarmenFunding body:Project co-funded by the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme through the European Regional Development Fund.Funding for IIM-CSIC:637323€Fromto - BlueHuman -
Blue biotechnology as a road for innovation on human’s health aiming smart growth in Atlantic Area
Principal investigator:VázquezÁlvarezXosé AntónFunding body:Project co-funded by the Interreg Atlantic Area Programme through the European Regional Development Fund.Funding for IIM-CSIC:150000€Fromto