Main research questionIn the research project ‘Accurate selection” ("De Juiste Sortering" in Dutch) aims at innovative processing of shrimp catches on board shrimp fishing vessels. Image recognition is a crucial new element in the new machine.
Automatic shrimp triage
The following information is available, among others: data about the fleet capacity, the landings and discards of fish, the catch composition, fishery-independent data from surveys with research vessels, economic data with regard to fleets, aquaculture and the fish processing industry and biological data (length, weight, age, etc) of caught fish, shellfish
Biological fishery data
Land-based aquaculture of brown shrimp getting closer?
Progress on shrimp aquaculture has been made through doctoral research. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in successfully cultivating baby shrimp into juvelines.
Possible effects on benthic ecosystems of fishery exclusion, a review in the frame of windmill farms.
Shrimp electropulse fishing: Study of possible side effects delivers reassuring results
The short electric pulses (“pulse”) used in shrimp electropulse fishing do not cause any malformations in either fish eggs or larvae.
Horti-BlueC webinar 2: Production of chitin from shrimp shells
Alternative to cooking shrimp opens culinary and economic possibilities for our "Caviar of the North Sea"
Landing and marketing shrimp uncooked, long storable and yet without loss of quality or food is now more successful thanks to new and optimized techniques. These techniques are the result of doctoral work by Xavier Vermeersch (ILVO - UGent).
Strawberry on a bed of shrimp. Upgrading residual flows from agriculture, horticulture, agri-food and fisheries
A regional study on tropical shrimp fisheries shows that in-depth biological knowledge can lead to targeted sustainability
Extensive sustainability in the fishery requires in-depth knowledge of target species as well as protection of coastal ecosystems, which is again confirmed by a Flemish-Surinamese study on shrimp fishery in Guyana and Suriname
Good news for the bioeconomy: extracting chitin from shrimp and crab shells can be done through "soft" biological processes. The by-products also show potential.