The VALBIOMAR project seeks to develop an Atlantic network of competences in the domain of maximising the biotechnological value of living marine resources, and energising relations among laboratories and SMEs to produce concrete co-operation, and the development of new activities. The principal object of VALBIOMAR rests on the necessity, in the context of the rarefaction of certain marine resources, of optimising the operations of transformation of raw materials and of the generation of co-products (animal and human foods, cosmetics, health products). The project also contributes to a diversification of activities derived from fishing and aquaculture in the strict framework of the sustainable management of natural marine resources through the better utilisation of these resources.