Our latest newsletter is now available!

COCKLES webviewer includes different layers, such as cockle population connectivity and co-occurrence with non-indigenous species, facilitating the visualization of results and their application in the management of this resource in the Atlantic Area.

Try and explore, it was fully developed as a user-friendly tool.

https://cockles.cetmar.org/gis-viewer

Take a look at our 5rd newsletter!

               Agenda available

Have a look on our pitch presented last month in the #B2Sea2020, an international event to promote projects and businesses within the marine economy.

COCKLES project, aiming to restore the production and the services provided by cockles (bivalve) in the Atlantic Area, included a strong communication and outreach segment that generated literacy, awareness and engagement on multiple audiences. This short film focuses on examples of these actions.

AE2021 "Oceans of Opportunity”

 Aquaculture Europe 2021. 

The annual event of the European Aquaculture Society will take place in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal – October 4-7, 2021.

Abstract submissions for AE2020 and AE2021

Fresh news about COCKLES consortium outstanding work! Take a look at our 4rd newsletter!

Our latest newsletter is now available in spanish to read online – Boletín nº 3.

Simply visit our Newsletter section of the website and click on NEWSLETTER 03 | Spanish Version.

FR "Le joyau caché de l'Atlantique, une vidéo du Projet COCKLES 

During 3 days, our progress within the project was shared and the final year was planned.

There was also time for a stakeholders' workshop and great social events. 

Little future scientists came from Guarda to Aveiro to hear about COCKLES. There was time for a hands-on experience and we had so much fun together!

(Luísa Magalhães and Adília Pires in the pictures)

During this week, an workshop on identification of main pathogens of cockles by histology is taking place on La Tremblade, in the IFREMER facilities, from 20th to 24th May. This event is organised by the EU Reference Laboratory for mollusc diseases, Ifremer, La Tremblade.

COCKLES steering meeting took place in Olhão, Portugal from 9th-10th April 2019.

Watch the new episode of the series ‘bio ID & Ciência’ where Luísa Magalhães present us the Cockle (Berbigão) and associated scientific discoveries.

» Watch here «

The Annual Meeting and Technical Workshop of the National Reference Laboratories for Mollusc Diseases,

and of the COCKLES project was co-organized by the University of Bordeaux and IFREMER

and took place in Arcachon, France, on 19-21 March 2019.

What do COCKLES look like? Where do they live? Which benefits do cockles provide to the society? 

These are some of the questions we discussed with kids (9-12 years old) of Carrasqueira School (Vigo, Galicia (Spain)) last week. With the littles one (3 to 5 years old) we had a lot of fun picking cockles from tricky sand trays and making colourful cockles butterflies.

Modelling flows: larval dispersal and trophic cascades.

Field work in Ria de Aveiro (5-6 Jan) and Sado estuary (7-11 Jan), Portugal: collecting cockles and main competitors to evaluate possible feeding niche overlap.

The next Annual Meetings of National Reference Laboratories for Molluscs Diseases, will take place in Arcachon, Marine Station, France, on 19-21 March, 2019. 

More informations soon.

Histological sections illustrating the most severe pathological conditions

affecting cockles in Galicia:

1. Infection with Marteilia cochillia

Left: histological section through the digestive gland of a healthy cockle.

Right: histological section through the digestive gland of a cockle infected with Marteilia cochillia;

multiple parasites (arrows) appear colonising the epithelium of the digestive tubules.

2. Disseminated neoplasia

Left: histological section through the gills of a healthy cockle.

Right: histological section through the gills of a cockle affected by disseminated neoplasia, showing

the connective tissue and the lumen of the branchial vessels heavily invaded by neoplastic cells.

3. Granulomatosis

Histological section through the gills of a cockle showing large granulomas (stars)

consisting of mases of haemocytes and cell surrounded by connective fibres and flattened cells.

4. Infection with a haplosporidan-like parasite

Histological section through the digestive gland of a cockle showing uninucleate (arrow)

and binucleate cells (double arrows) accumulated in the connective tissue.

5. Infestation with Bucephalus minimus

Histological section through the gonadal area of a cockle showing multiple sporocysts

of this digenean trematode invading the connective tissue of the host.

[Author of the images: Centro de Investigacións Mariñas]

This international event aims to promote the dissemination of projects, studies and knowledge on issues related to the Sea and took place on 14-16th of November at Oporto (Portugal).

 Luísa Magalhães | António Villalba

COCKLES in the "Label EPOC" french Newsletter, n. 6 (Autumn).

On 8 October the University of Bordeaux set-up an experiment which contributes to several work packages (5, 6 and 8) of the COCKLES project. The experiment was set-up on the Banc d’Arguin, an intertidal sand bank situated in Arcachon Bay along the French Atlantic coast.

At low tide, at around 8? AM, we started to dig the cages in the sediment.

Then we had to look for cockles.. 3000 in total of a similar size were required!

But we managed, and I was very happy!

This event took place in 3^rd September in the Royal Imperial College London.

"I presented a poster, as well as a powerpoint presentation, detailing the significance of the WP4.1 (Baseline assessment) and how it might inform us of the response of cockles to changing climate." Kate Mahony 

 + more

Our Ocean Wealth Summit-Trade Show

This summit took place on the 28^th and 29^th of June.

We set up a stand at the trade show, to provide information to stakeholders, as well as those with a general interest. + more

^{Kate Mahony}

WP4, Action 4.2 field survey.

Some photos of the meeting!

The next COCKLES stakeholders meeting will be held in Cork on October 16!

You can download the agenda here.

The COCKLE’s team is pleased to report that the just-released magazine of the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) – AQUACULTURE EUROPE (vol. 43) – includes an article about the COCKLES project: COCKLES take centre stage!

Get involved in COCKLES!

Let us know your opinion on the Pathogen census book

that COCKLES is building by clicking in the link below!

http://cetcuestas.cetmar.org/index.php/981227/

XORNADA COCKLES

Cooperación para a recuperación do marisqueo do berberecho

e os seus servizos ambientais na Área Atlántica (AA)

13 de xullo 2018

Confraría de Pescadores San Antonio de Cambados

Av. Galicia, 29, 36630 Cambados, Pontevedra

O vindeiro 13 de xullo celebrarase na Confraría de pescadores San Antonio de Cambados unha xuntanza dirixida a todas as persoas e organizacións interesadas na conservación e explotación deste recurso emblemático.

Durante a xornada, que se desenvolverá ó longo da mañá, presentaranse os avances e estado do proxecto en relación ó estado das poboacións, xestión do recurso e patoloxías que o ameazan, en particular a marteiliose. A continuación darase paso a un debate aberto a todos os participantes con obxecto de identificar os aspectos de maior interese para o sector local.

Reserve a data para participar!

Para rexistrarse como asistente, complete por favor o formulario de inscrición que atopará aqui ou ben contacte con transferencia@cetmar.org antes do 6 de xullo 2018.

A inscrición é gratuíta.

Agardamos que a iniciativa sexa do seu interese e poder contar coa súa presenza.

Simão Correia (Portugal) won the Best Poster Award at the BSP Spring Meeting (8-11 April 2018, Aberystwyth, Wales). Congratulations!