REGIONAL CENTER FOR PROMOTION OF MARINE RESOURCES (C.E.R.M.A.)

In 2004, Westeam began working on an ambitious project for bringing together available skills and resources in the region and implementing a joint enterprise aimed at creating and managing a research and experimental center for technologies associated with the coastal marine environment. 

The goals pursued with the creation of the Center consist in the creation of synergies between the production world (fishing, aquaculture, tourism) and the research world that can materialize into new economic development and cultural growth opportunities. 

This initiative was realized in late 2006 with the creation of a consortium, "CERMA SRL":

Ce.r.ma. Soc. Cons. R.L.
REGIONAL CENTER FOR PROMOTION OF MARINE RESOURCES

Via Augusto Armelio, 39 Imperia
C.S.: € 50.000,00
Chamber of commerce and Fiscal code: 91034660083
VAT NUMBER: 01439810084

Promoting partners:

• Westeam srl

• Spezzina Itticoltura srl

• Acqua srl

• Acquarius Soc. Coop.

• Sistemi Ambientali srl

• Imperia Mare Blu srl

• Osservatorio Ligure Pesca e Ambiente

• Parco Scientifico e Tecnologico della Liguria ( Regione Liguria)

• University of Genoa (Conisma)

Center's activity

The center's activity will therefore be steered along two lines of complementary actions: production and research.

The reproduction center will therefore be of appropriate dimensions not only to satisfy the basic needs of the Ligurian fish farm businesses but also to provide fry and juveniles selected from various piscine, crustacean and invertebrate species for intensive repopulation activity of the costal waters.  

The scientific research activity will have its principal partner at the University of Genoa and the Intrauniversity Research Consortium which will complement the highly specialized courses that can be undertaken within the system with stages and examinations in the field.  

The topics of scientific research will address two main areas: 

1) Fishing: through studies for developing repopulation methodologies aimed at increasing costal fishing;  studies of environmental dynamics and definition of the parameters and indices of return;  economic monitoring and analyses of "intelligent" management of dimersal resources.  

2) Aquaculture: through the implementation of methods and techniques for reproduction and rearing that can be implemented on the commercial scale relative to the reproduction and growth of minor marine piscine species;  improvement of efficiency in the production cycle;  implementation of food protocols as a function of the definition of fish quality parameters.