Innovation Capabilities & Products

Govocitos is a free image analysis software that allows for easy and accurate determination of reproductive parameters in fish based on histological images. Although designed to estimate fish fertility, its applications are expandable to other counting, measurement and classification problems (i.e. pollen count, oncology and cytology, etc.).

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Use of acoustic tags and biotelemetry techniques to monitor fish behavior and assess the survival of fisheries by-catch.

Pathogen detection and identification in wild and farmed animals, as well as in seafood products. Evaluation of the relationship between pathogen incidence and various environmental and physiological aspects to provide risk assessments for target pathogens.

The definition and description of ecosystems involving marine resources, in terms of scale, extent, structure, and functioning. This includes characterizing the spatial, structural, and functional aspects of marine-coastal ecosystems as basic units for environmental land-use planning.

The evaluation of marine ecosystem status, defined in terms of environmental health or integrity and established as what is acceptable to society, as well as the assessment of threats. This involves using indicators of ecosystem extent and condition.

Authors: Miquel Planas Oliver; Alexandre Chamorro Valverde

Description: Development of integrated culture procedures for the industrial production of seahorses of the species Hippocampus reidi.

The conservation, protection, and rehabilitation of marine ecosystems and the mitigation of impacts using adaptation strategies. This includes identifying key considerations for the potential design and planning of biodiversity compensation measures and their scope in environmental impact assessments.

The study of biodiversity with an integrative approach. This involves examining biodiversity at multiple levels, from genes to ecosystems, and considering the interactions between biodiversity and human activities, including the provision of ecosystem services.

Identification of new molecular markers for species identification through Next-Generation Sequencing in environmental DNA samples, with applications for biodiversity monitoring and fisheries stock assessment. 

Monitoring temporal and spatial distribution of species, abundance and biomass from several taxa using different techniques such as e-DNA, pigment characterization, flow cytometry, acoustic telemetry, images collected from remote observation systems (i.e. drones, etc.) or classic taxonomic identification.