Blueshellfish Project
2025-06-11 (IPMA)
On June 5th, 2025, Cuban researcher Gabriel Rojas delivered a lecture at the IPMA facilities in Algés, entitled “Harmful Algal Blooms in Cuba: Focus on Ciguatera and the Ecology of Benthic Dinoflagellates.”
The session was organized within the scope of the Blueshellfish project – “Solutions to prevent and mitigate the impacts of HABs in Aquaculture and Fisheries, in the context of global warming”, funded by the HORIZON-MSCA-2021-SE-01 programme through a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action for researcher exchange. The project aims to enhance scientific career development through the mobility of specialized human resources and the implementation of international placements, with the goal of raising the scientific level and international recognition of both researchers and institutions. The consortium is composed of 13 organizations from 11 countries and is coordinated by CIIMAR.
The lecture provided researchers from IPMA and CIIMAR with an excellent opportunity to explore the shared challenges faced by Portugal and Cuba in the monitoring and management of harmful algal blooms (HABs), as well as in mitigating the resulting contamination of marine resources.
In his presentation, Gabriel Rojas, a researcher at the Centro de Estudios Ambientales de Cienfuegos (CEAC), highlighted the environmental risks associated with these algal blooms, focusing in particular on the work he has been carrying out to mitigate the effects of Ciguatera, a marine foodborne illness that is recurrent in Cuba and increasingly emerging in Portugal.
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