We have several years of experience in performing all required analyses for the fulfilment of environmental monitoring of fish farms according to the ASC Seabass, Seabream and Meagre Standard Version 1.1.
Towards this end, we can offer the following analyses:
- Bathymetric mapping
- Measurements of currents (strength and direction)
- Calculation of the Allowed Zone of Effect (AZE)
- Habitat mapping (Posidonia oceanica beds)
- Design of sampling schemes (accredited according to ISO 12878:2012)
- Sampling of zoobenthos (accredited according to ISO 12878:2012 and ISO 16665:2014)
- Sampling of sediment
- Analyses of zoobenthos (accredited according to ISO 16665:2014)
- Determination of Redox potential (accredited according to Standard Methods)
- Sedimentology (grain size analyses)
- Geochemical analyses (carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, copper, zinc (Copper and zinc accredited according to ISO 13196:2013))
- Calculation of biological indices and environmental / biological quality (Shannon Wiener index, AMBI, BENTIX)