Supply of marine biological resources

ECIMAT has highly skilled staff and suitable infrastructures to provide organisms in their natural habitat as well as cultures, water, and culture means for research

The Service “Biological Resources and Marine cultures” grows and maintains in stock several species of phytoplankton and zooplankton, with interest for aquaculture (rotifers, artemia, cladocers, copepods, etc.) and has experience in the rearing, maintenance and provision of several species of molluscs (clams, cockles, oysters, etc.) fish (turbot, sole, sea bream, sardine, etc.) and equinoderms (sea urchin, sea cucumber, etc.). Furthermore, the service provides organisms collected in situ, managing all the required permits.

ECIMAT provides water MiliQ, distilled water and filtered seawater (20, 1 and 0.22 micras), sterilization (uv) at several temperatures (13ºC, 18ºC and room temperature).

To get further information about any of those services, you can consult the section “Request a Service”. To request any other service or pose a question, please send an email to Damián Costas.

NotE: ALL PROVIDED RESOURCES AT ECIMAT ARE OBTAINED APPLYING THE PROCEDURES AND TECHNICAL INSTRUCTIONS GUIDELINES, STANDARDIZED AND CERTIFIED ACCORDING TO QUALITY STANDARDS
WARNING: it is responsibility of the users of the service of supply of marine biological resources to be aware of the obligations regulated in the Royal Decree 124/2017, relative to the access to the genetic resources from wild taxa and to the control of their utilization and, when needed, to request the authorization of access to Spanish genetic resources from wild taxa. The service of supply of marine biological resources can provide guidance to the users if required.