Seeking input from aquaculture & IMTA producers in the Atlantic coastal regions:

Dear Aquaculture Helix Members,

Our consortium has prepared a short survey which aims to describe the state of the art practices in aquaculture in all Atlantic coastal regions, as well as the current Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) systems.

We would like to invite the Aquaculture Helix Community to participate, as the collected information will be crucial for the ASTRAL project in understanding the current aquaculture production, and it will enable us to identify potential new Value Chains.

The survey takes 5 minutes to fill out and closes on June 4th, 2021. The follow-up of this survey will be made available in this very same space afterwards.

The questionnaire is available in multiple languages:
English https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/ASTRAL-Q-EN
Portuguese https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/ASTRAL-Q-PT
French https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/ASTRAL-Q-FR
Spanish https://fr.surveymonkey.com/r/ASTRAL-Q-ES

We look forward to hearing from you!
The ASTRAL Consortium

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