Guillaume Caulier UMONS - Feeding The planet in 2050 ?
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LABORATORY: BIOLOGY OF MARINE ORGANISMS AND BIOMIMETICS Faculty of Science www.umons.be UNIVERSITY OF MONS (UMONS) « Socio- ecological aquaculture : development of sea cucumber aquaculture » Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015 MSc. Guillaume Caulier Research and Teaching Assistant [email protected] [email protected]
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LABORATORY: BIOLOGY OF MARINE ORGANISMS AND BIOMIMETICSFaculty of Sciencewww.umons.be
UNIVERSITY OF MONS (UMONS)
« Socio-ecological aquaculture :
development of sea cucumber aquaculture »
Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015
MSc. Guillaume CaulierResearch and Teaching [email protected]@umons.ac.be
THE PROJECT
Title of the project : Sea cucumber farm: from academic research to industry
Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015
• Sea cucumber • Holothuria
scabra
Overfishing
• Delicacy food• Cure-all/aphrodisiac
Ec
olo
gy
Ec
on
om
y
• Easily collected
• Transformed in trepang
• 300$/kg
THE PROJECT
Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015
Overfishing
• Exportation to China:
20,000-40,000 T /year
• Endangered sea cucumber species
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
Economical objective : Development of the first industrial sea cucumber farm
in Madagascar
Ecological Objective : Preservation of marine ressources
Social Objective : Collaboration with local fishermen
Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015
Universities Private companies
NGOsFishermen
FUNDING AND PARTNERS
Funding
Partners
Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015
PSI
RESULTS
1st Result : In vitro reproduction and diminution of larval mortality
2nd Result : Production of 1,000,000 sea cucumbers / year
3rd Result : Direct employement of more than 100 fishermen (sex ratio
50:50) and successfull collaboration with several hundreds of local
fishermen.
Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015
« Stockage d’Energie: Défis et avancées technologiques »
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
1 Patent (In vitro oocyte maturation)
2 Know how transfer
Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015
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FEEDING THE PLANETIN 2050
24TH of June 2015Belgian Pavilion
