“Agencia de Gestión Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucía (AGAPA) (Agency for the management of agriculture and fisheries of Andalusia) is an agency that falls under the Regional Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development of Andalusia. Its main goal is to implement policies in order to achieve the basic objectives in the fields of agriculture and fisheries such as the management of promotion programmes and actions, the development of surveillance and monitoring tasks and, the provision and management of public services and technical assistance in agricultural and fisheries matters.

One of its competences is the implementation of the programme to control and monitor HABs and, in this context, as a partner of this project, it will provide the historical information gathered during the programme. Moreover, it will carry out tasks related to the validation of oceanographic models and the development of tools to automatise the visualization of forecasts.”