Last year, a management plan for the valuable red shrimp fishery was approved. It is an innovative project developed by CSIC scientists and fishermen of Cofradia de Palamos. Now, the project GAP2 focus a short film on this case.

It is called FungiNote, and it is an app to identify fungi species. This app is a result of the cooperation between scientists at the Real Jardín Botánico of the CSIC and the company Wake App!.

AFORO is a well known online catalogue of otoliths (internal structures of the fish ear). Now it has started a new stage, AFORO 3D, in which three-dimensional models of otoliths are added to the catalogue. This opens the door to new possibilities that were unimaginable until now.

The CSIC has signed a contract with the Spanish company UxúeBioenergia y Renovables to design and set up a biomass plant for the simultaneous production of bio-oil and electricity.

Investigadoras del CSIC han participado en un trabajo en el que se ha caracterizado una nueva microalga denominada DE2009, que presenta una mayor capacidad de secuestrar el plomo que otros microorganismos estudiados hasta ahora. El estudio, que abre nuevas vías a la bioremediación, tenía como objetivo desarrollar un método para determinar el efecto tóxico de los metales pesados más rápido y preciso.