Funding for this research was provided by:
Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (IDI-20170704, IDI-20190479)
Article History
Received: 9 October 2022
Accepted: 15 February 2023
First Online: 29 March 2023
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: This study was financed by Armadora Pereira S.A. and CDTI funding to develop the projects AQUOPUS (IDI-20170704, 2017–2019, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas de Vigo, IIM-CSIC) and OCTOBLUE (IDI-20190479, 2019–2021, ECIMAT, Universidad de Vigo). This work was carried with the aim to increase the survival and enhance the zootechnical aspects of the culture of <i>O. vulgaris</i> in captivity and, therefore, experiments do not fall under Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 22 September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes. Nonetheless, the experimental procedures (culture density, prey density, water quality, tank designs) were supervised and approved by an ethics committee at the different institutions (IIM for AQUOPUS and University of Vigo for OCTOBLUE projects).