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North Atlantic researchers join forces
North Atlantic researchers join forces
Sea cucumbers as novel resource is the focus of a new international North Atlantic research collaboration. The project is lead by Møreforsking.
In May 2019
Møreforsking Ålesund’s long term efforts to promote sea cucumbers and
particularly establish the Norwegian red sea cucumber (Parastichopus tremulus) as potential novel food and functional
resource have brought through another targeted project.
Thus, HOLOSUSTAIN
has been funded by NORA (Nordic Atlantic Cooperation) as an application “initiating a North Atlantic Network on
Sustainable Holothurian Technology and Innovation”. The partnering institutions are two fisheries from Norway and
Iceland specifically focusing on sea cucumbers, Matis, Iceland, NCE Blue
Legasea with specific functions regarding dissemination, and two partnering
organizations from Canada – from the Ocean Sciences Faculty of Memorial
University of Newfoundland (MUN) and a fishery / processing company, with
extensive experience in handling the North Atlantic sea cucumber species Cucumaria frondosa.
NORA is an
intergovernmental organization under the regional cooperation program of the
Nordic Council of Ministers. It brings together Greenland, Iceland, Faroe
Islands and Coastal Norway (in external collaboration with Canada and Scotland
regarding some research funding priorities). NORA generates new and develops
existing networks between commercial actors and research or administrative organizations,
active in the region, in order to build optimal synergy through cooperation on
joint initiatives.
Since November 2019 the HOLOSUSTAIN platform already counts
with its publicly available website.
