About Blue Economy and Farming

It is estimated that around 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, forming the seas and oceans. However, due to many possible explanations, the seas and oceans quality is degrading rapidly, causing pollution and several other negative implications. These implications also influence greatly on fishing; given that fish is one of the fastest growing food sectors and one in three fishes are spoiled – overall, disseminating research in this area is imperative to ensuring the sustainable nature of the blue economy.

This collection aims to provide Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries with a space to openly publish work within the broad area of blue economy and farming, and to join the European Commission's mission in restoring our oceans and waters.

The scope of the collection includes but is not limited to:

• Parasites
• Water ‘cleaning’
• Precision aquaculture
• Sea lice and fish pathogens
• Plastic litter
• Circular economy

All article processing charges will be covered centrally by the European Commission.

Open Research Europe requires open access to research data supporting articles under the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’. All articles should include citations to repositories that host the data underlying the results, together with any information needed to replicate, validate, and/or reuse the results/your study and analysis of the data. We recognise there may be exceptions due to ethical, data protection, or confidentiality considerations, or because the data have been obtained from a third party and access restrictions apply.