About the Ecofish Project
Ecofish is a European research initiative funded under the Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme (grant No. 645691), dedicated to investigating how conventional aquaculture fish farms can transition to sustainable and organic production systems through aquaponics integration and evidence-based operational reform.
Our Research Mission
Our mission is to generate reliable, farm-level evidence that makes the transition to organic aquaculture financially legible and operationally achievable — connecting researchers, farm operators, and certification bodies across geographically diverse pilot regions in Romania, Spain, the United States, and Egypt.
How Ecofish Began
The project emerged from a recognised gap between academic aquaculture research and on-farm implementation. Too many small and medium fish farm operators lacked access to the technical and financial guidance needed to evaluate a transition to sustainable production. Ecofish was designed to close that gap — not through prescriptive models, but through documented, regionally grounded evidence that operators and policymakers could actually use.
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