Environmental changes, such as climate change and human impacts, have recently been affecting the marine ecosystem, influencing the quality and safety of wild fish, proving to be a global challenge in the fishing industry and throughout the value chain. to feed. In this sense, one of Vertical Fish's lines of research focuses on the health of wild fish, namely the creation and identification of new traceability methods, as well as the development of solutions in the field of blue biotechnology, which aim to guarantee the quality of fish and detect parasitized fish. The implementation of measures to quickly identify the origin of fish will make it possible to detect cases of lower quality or food fraud, thus contributing to the reduction of food waste.

The second line of research focuses on the construction of modular systems, promoting a zero-waste strategy where products or by-products from one stage of production can be reused in another, through low-trophic level organisms.

LowTrophAqua seeks to solve this problem by developing innovative solutions, including identifying low trophic level species that can retain nutrients unused by target fish. These complementary organisms can transform these nutrients into valuable biomass through the application of blue biotechnology tools.