COOL BLUE - Community Ocean Farms and Local Business Clusters
Short description
COOL BLUE (Community Ocean Farms and Local Business Clusters) is a collaborative project to develop the concept of marine allotments in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
One of the main objectives of the project is to help start up viable commercial and non-commercial small-scale regenerative ocean farms that contribute to a healthier ocean.
In Denmark, community blue gadens are an established concept and there are ocean farms in 30 different locations across the country. In Sweden there is widespread interest but very few farms, and in Finland the possibility of establishing allotments in the Baltic Sea is being investigated. The project aims to capitalise on this to exchange knowledge and lessons learned.
The project will
- Create a network between small-scale farmers in Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
- Produce a handbook for small-scale farming in marine and brackish water environments.
- Develop methods to monitor the environmental impact of the farms.
- Develop business models for commercial and non-commercial farms.
- Provide a helpdesk for small-scale farming in the sea.
- Organise awareness-raising activities and events.
- Work for regulatory simplification to establish small-scale regenerative marine farms in Sweden.
Participants from the University of Gothenburg
Maria Bodin, project coordinator, Centre for Sea and Society
Matthias Obst, researcher, Department of Marine Sciences
Marina Panova, researcher, Department of Marine Sciences
Malin Rosengren, project leader Centre for Sea and Society
Participants in other countries
Joachim Hjerl, Havhøst, Denmark
Jonas Harald, Aktion Österbotten, Finland
Frederick Bruce, s.Pro, Germany
