Merel, Author at AQUAPHOENIX

An infograhic image showing how circular economy creates industrial symbiosis.

The role of AQUAPHOENIX in the Circular Economy – video

MultimediaMay 13, 2025

This video shows some of project coordinator NORCE’s competencies within circular economy and is not made for the AQUAPHOENIX project. Find the original video here. For more information about other NORCE projects, please visit https://www.norceresearch.no/en/

The role of AQUAPHOENIX in the Circular Economy

ArticlesMay 13, 2025

“The goal is to use the old to produce the new.” NORCE Norwegian Research Centre Fish farms generate sludge that can negatively impact marine environments. But sludge isn’t purely a waste product. It’s a resource that can play a potentially revolutionary role in the circular economy. In the circular economy, resources are kept in use for…

Top view of Framo LiftUP Back to barge system, consisting of one or two main pipes, also known as collector pipes, that stretch from the silk tank on the float and branch out to each individual aquaculture pen.

Clever technologies for clean aquaculture

ArticlesApril 8, 2025

Meet the AQUAPHOENIX partners advancing novel technologies to support sustainable production. Illustration of how sludge collection extracts value from waste and enables circularity (photo: Framo) “The common way of looking at sludge is to consider it a problem. It’s a byproduct, and people don’t really want to see it. But if you can harvest some of…

A sunny group picture of 37 people standing in front of the Salmon Eye, a gleaming silver dome floating on the fjord.

Building a shared vision for sustainable aquaculture at the AQUAPHOENIX kickoff

ArticlesFebruary 27, 2025

AQUAPHOENIX partners - including scientific experts, industry players, technological innovators and local, regional and European initiatives - came together in person for the first time from February 12-13 2025 to pool their perspectives and plan for the coming months and years. Partners gained crucial insights into each other’s work, with discussions centering on the technological…