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In 2018, EUMOFA released a groundbreaking "Blue bioeconomy: situation report and perspectives" report that provided a comprehensive overview of the blue bioeconomy sector in the European Union. By definition, "blue bioeconomy" incorporates any economic activity associated with the use of renewable aquatic biological resources to make products. Examples of these wide-ranging products include novel foods and food additives, animal feeds, nutraceuticals, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, materials (e.g. clothes and construction materials) and energy. Businesses that grow the raw materials for these products, or that extract, refine, process and transform the biological compounds, as well as those developing the required technologies and equipment all participate in the blue bioeconomy. The report was meant to be a one-of-kind publication for EUMOFA, which traditionally deals with typical aquaculture and fisheries, where the fish or shellfish are caught or produced for human consumption. Of course, these typical entities are still blue bioeconomy, but "traditional" ones, whereas the report focused on cutting-edge applications of aquatic biomass. EUMOFA's foray into new territory was quite well received by the sector, when the report was presented at the kick-off event of the Blue Bioeconomy Forum in December 2018. In the wake of this success, it was decided to make the Blue Bioeconomy Report a regular publication, to be released every other year. Building on the findings of the first report, EUMOFA hosted a stakeholder workshop that took place at the European Maritime Day in Lisbon in May 2019. An open consultation ensued, with the aim of letting stakeholders have their say on what topics the next edition, this one, would have to cover. Three topics unequivocally emerged as the most requested: 1. Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) 2. Innovative uses for fish rest raw material (RRM) 3. Cell-plant technology and cellular mariculture Thus, this edition of the Blue Bioeconomy Report is structured in three sections: the first overviews the past, present and future of IMTA, the second is a case study on the use of fish rest raw materials in Demark, and the third reports on the emerging technology of cellular mariculture.