This work was carried out under project “SUStainable production of HIgh quality aquaculture FISH using innovative tools and production strategies and integrating novel processing methods and cold chain management” (Acronym: SUSHIFISH), co-funded by the COFASP ERA-NET partners (2nd call, 2016e2019), which received funding from the European Union's seventh framework programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no. 321553, together with Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Competitiveness, Entrepreneurship and Innovation 2014e2020” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) and Portuguese national funds from FCT (Foundation of Science and Technology) through project COFASP/0002/2015. Support was also received from FCT through project UID/Multi/04326/2019 and POCI-01-0145-FEDER- 007440 ref. UID/NEU/04539/2019, and through the European Marine Biological Research Infrastructure Cluster-EMBRIC (EU H2020 research and innovation program, agreement no. 654008). LA, PP and CS received FCT fellowships SFRH/BPD/79105/2011, SFRH/BPD/84033/2012 and SFRH/BD/88419/2012.