The series of national innovation workshops as part of the Bio Rural project was completed with the third workshop focused on aquatic feedstock production. Green Growth Platform held the workshop in the city of Ohrid located on the northern coast of the Ohrid Lake one of the oldest lakes in Europe with a vastly diverse aquatic eco-system.
Attendees of the workshop were relevant stakeholders from the academia, technology providers, governmental bodies, fishing associations, NGOs and policy makers engaged in the sector of aquaculture, fishery and environmental protection.
The Bio Rural project`s goals and progress were presented by the president of the Green Growth Platform – Natasha Ristovska PhD along with an overview of the local bioeconomy compared to the EU`s. This bioeconomy overview was derived from the results of a survey of actors from all bio-economy sectors that was part of previous working packages of the BioRural project.
Irina Manevska MSc, a representative from the Institute of Animal Science part of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje gave an excellent lecture on the circularity in aquaculture, good practices and technologies along with a presentation of an existing innovative bio-based solution for fish quality enhancement in farming by the utilization of probiotic bacterial cultures.
The workshop was concluded with a practical exercise targeted at the implementation of potential bio-based solutions in fish farming and lake fishig and provided grass-root level ideas and inventions for small scale bio-based solutions in the particular domain of the bioeconomy.