Health applications from marine resources, a calling confirmed!
The Health Sea International Symposium 2007 took place at Granville on the 4th and 5th October, welcoming more than 120 international participants
The event was a place of exchange between researchers, industrial players and producers with a stake in new opportunities for making use of animals and plants marine resources.

Marine biodiversity holds huge potential for new discoveries and possible applications thereof to the fields of food and nutrition, pharmacology, cosmetology and bio-materials. Each year, new research-based projects make their debut on the market. At the same time, closer to the resource level, the parties in the fishing and marine culture segment are becoming aware of the value of the by-products that their activities generate – there are considerable shared interests in the innovation sector!

Building on its activities in fishing and aquaculture (leading oyster-farming region at the national level), Normandy has been involved in research and development in marine resources for years. Since 2002, it has been host of a bi-monthly meeting between research partners and industrial developers. For the 2007 edition, the International Symposium on Health and the Sea had privileged themes like the presentation of know-how of Ireland (guest country), biomedical applications and further uses for algae in the field of health, thus which of marine by-products.

Professor Michel MATHIEU