1. Consumer Driven Production: Integrating Innovative Approaches for Competitive
and Sustainable Performance across the Mediterranean Aquaculture Value Chain
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 727610.
The Key Performances Indicator System for Mediterranean
Aquaculture Industry in PerformFISH
Giovanna Marino
ISPRA - SNPA
National System for Environmental
Protection
http://performfish.eu/

2. Pillar: Societal Challenges
Societal Challenge 2
Workprogramme
Sustainable Food Security
PerformFISH contributes
to the vision of H2020
2016 SFS-23

3. 2016- SFS-23
Increase the Mediterranean aquaculture competiveness by improving its
technical performance together with a shift from production-oriented
growth to market-oriented and consumer responsive approach
Objec2vePerformFISH Objective
to match 2016 SFS-23
To increase the competitiveness of the
Mediterranean aquaculture sector
by tackling biological, technical and operational
weaknesses that underlie the stagnation of marine fish
production in the last decade, while addressing social and
environmental responsibility and
contributing to “Blue Growth”

4. Impacts are expected to contribute to SDGs

5. PerformFISH embraces the 3 Os’ principle
Open Science
 Open-access publications (Green or Gold)
 Samples available outside the project
Open Innovation
 User-centric approach
 Participation of Associations vs individual companies
 KPI benchmarking system
 Adoption of standards and the ethical framework to be
developed by Associations representing MMFF
Open to the World
 Spread of the revisited, modern Code-of-conduct to the non-
EU Mediterranean actors

6. PerformFISH structure

7. Builds a robust benchmarking system based on Key Performance
Indicators that integrate all production chains and make a
validated system adopted by the industry to support the sector
to achieve cost-efficiency, welfare friendly husbandry practices
and environmental sustainability.
WP7. KPIs, Impact Assessment &
Code of Conduct

8. to provide to MMFF companies a benchmarking
system to evaluate their performance and optimize
against best practices and the competition
to provide Virtual Research Environment (VREs) for
storage, analyse and processing project data
to assess the impact of TRL advances on
performances and farm efficiencies
to consolidate best practices and harmonized
standards in the Code of Conduct of MMFF sector
KPIs, Impact Assessment &
CoC

9. Key Performance Indicators - KPIs
 Build on farm data
- collected in routine cycles and experiments
- accessible production data by the Industry (closed batches 2016)
 Linked to critical successful factors
growth, health, feed, welfare…
 SMART criteria - specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, time-
bound - Simple to measure - easy to understand

10. GROWTH
HEALTH
PRODUCTIVITY
WELFARE
ENVIRONMENT
FEED
T-KPI - biological performances
of batches and technical
efficiency
ENV-KPI - the
impact of
farming
practices on the
preservation of
biodiversity and
habitats, the use
of natural
resources, water,
space and
energy use
W-KPI - fish welfare at
different life stages and
husbandry practices
E-KPI for
productivity
& farm
efficiency
Industry performances benchmarking

11. Production cycle & Parametrization
Stocking size: 1 dph larvae
Final size: 2400dd
Stocking period: Early (Aug- Oct), Natural
(Dec – Feb), Late (Apr-Jun)
Data input: representative batches from
each stocking period and for the whole
production cycle
Data Reporting: 1200, 1800, 2400 dd
Hatchery
Set of 15 KPIs under validation by MMFF sector
Survival, deformities, weaned fish, discharged fish, growth (SGR),
Artemia and rotifers requirements, productivity (FTE)

12. Production cycle & Parametrization
Stocking size: 2400 dd fish
Final size: up to 20g
Stocking period: Early (Aug- Oct), Natural
(Dec – Feb), Late (Apr-Jun)
Data input: representative batches from
each stocking period and for the whole
production cycle
Data Reporting: end of cycle
Nursery-preongrowing
Set of 6 KPIs under validation by MMFF sector
Mortalities, deformities, discharged fish, FCR, growth (SGR)

13. Production cycle & Parametrization
Stocking period:
Q1 / Q2 / Q3 / Q4
Stocking size:
2-5g / 5.1-10g / >10
Final size: 250g / 400g / 800g / Harvested batches
Data input: 0-50g, 51-150g, 151-200g, 201-300g,
301-400g, harvested batches
Data reporting: batch, farm, area
Geographical level: satellite temperature data
Grow –out
Mean seasonal sea temperature recorded
for the last 30 years in Mediterranean
10 aquaculture sites (CMCC-ISPRA)

14. Production cycle & Parametrization
Set of 30 KPIs under validation by MMFF sector
Losses: Mortalities (total, by disease, after transport),
unaccounted losses, total losses, discarded fish at slaughter,
vaccination efficacy, dependency on treatments
HEALTH
GROWTH SGR, GPD, TGC
FEED EFFICIENCY FCR , FCRBIO
FISH WELFARE Mortalities, treatments, stocking density, oxygen
depletion days
ENVIRONMENT Benthic index, P-N in sediment, escapes, endangered
species lethal incidents, FCR-FCR bio, FFDR- FM &FO
PRODUCTIVITY Biomass/FTE; biomass/volumes sea water

15. PerformFISH VREs - preparation work ( start at May 2018)
 Identify datasets to be stored
 Specify the VREs for storing
datasets and their corresponding
sharing policies
 Transformation of raw data
recorded during trials into a good
format for analysis in the VREs
 Specify the VRE supporting KPI
database, model analysis and
benchmarking
D4Science data infrastructure
https://www.d4science.org/
The computational resources available to
PerformFish through the DataMiner are
20 Virtual Machines (VM) with 32GB RAM