Aquaculture production processes and training validation through serious games

Nowadays, and due to the shortage of wild fish in our seas, rivers and lakes has led to the growth of the aquaculture industry and consequently to the increase of existing aquaculture fish in the markets for domestic consumption to a global scale. In this sense, aquaculture plays a central role to feed the world population in a healthy way and simultaneously for the preservation of the aquatic ecosystems. Thus, the aquaculture production process can be determined by several factors namely biological, technological, economic, and environmental. The authors intend to address and validate such factors related to production processes in the AquaSmart project using serious games. The Serious Games strategy proposes to demonstrate the technological results of the project, namely data analytics tools able to generate new knowledge to improve aquaculture production processes. Additionally, it also intends to work as supporting training and marketing material, validating both the tools and the training programme.