The WIN@sea project had reached its final phase. In August 2025, the last project meeting at Klintholm Harbor was held over two days. While this was not the final project meeting, it was the final one in Klintholm Harbour, the Vattenfall service port for the Danish Kriegers Flak windfarm, and our key point of operation for our multi-use activities since the start of the project. By now, all final samples have been collected, and the aquaculture systems have been dismantled.
The meeting at Klintholm Harbor kicked off with a serving of mussel soup cooked over an open fire, featuring organic line-cultivated blue mussels and a variety of seaweed. We also shared a very special serving of the small, very cute, and delicate mussels cultivated at our aquaculture systems at Kriegers Flak.
Adding a special touch, participants also got to taste the exclusive seaweed snacks from the Vattenfall brand campaign featuring Samuel L. Jackson. The snacks were made with sugar kelp produced by the WIN@sea project in another Danish Vattenfall windfarm, the Vesterhav Syd wind farm in the Danish North Sea, just west of Hvide Sande.
With full stomachs, the project participants updated each other on the 2025 activities:
- We made global headlines with Samuel Jackson
- Successfully produced sugar kelp in the Danish North Sea at the Vesterhav Syd wind farm
- Concluded our activities at Danish Kriegers Flak after 2½ year of excellent cooperation between all partners in planning
- Coordinating and carrying out multi-use activities
- Tested innovative non-invasive methods for determining fish populations with the ‘camera-axe’
- Introduced and played the WIN@sea board game at numerous occasions including the BIG BANG conference and Naturmødet
- Developed a site-selection tool using the FlexSem modelling tools
- Developed the jellyfish camera
- Published scientific and popular scientific papers
- Encouraged loads of families to cook and enjoy sustainable seafood, disseminated the project at many conferences and events in DK and abroad
- Shared many good meetings and discussions both physically and online.
Each participant also received the project’s newly developed dilemma board game, designed to explore dilemmas in decision-making in sustainable blue food cultivation and marine management.
The following day, the weather was in our favor, allowing us to sail to Møns cliff with the Discovery to view the cliff from the seaside. With windswept hair, we continued the project meeting, with focus on the final project activities: We will take our results to the next levels as we will further develop the modelling tools, the life-cycle analysis, and our recommendations for future Multi-use. We will see the results of the cod populations at Danish Kriegers Flak, the final harvest of seaweed in the North Sea, the cooperation made possible by Danish Center for Marine Research will give insight into the effect of turbines on the hydrodynamics and effect on stratification around a wind farm, and through OLAMUR we will know more about the content of environmentally harmful substances in the seaweed and mussels cultivated in wind farms. The project will be disseminated at Folkemødet, at the Danish Marine Science meeting, at Aquaculture Europe and many more events. We will organize a final stakeholder meeting in cooperation with ULTFARMS and meet for the final project meeting in Kerteminde in November.
Many thanks to all participants for their contributions and engagement. It was both a productive and truly enjoyable meeting, and we appreciated the great atmosphere throughout. A very special thanks to the Vattenfall people at DKF for their great dedication to the project activities and for welcoming the project participants for numerous meetings in Klintholm!
