The following national and international organizations have contributed financial and/or moral sponsoring:

• the Belgian National Science Foundation
• the Research Council of Norway
• the European Union (FAIR Programme)
• the Belgian Administration for Development Cooperation
• the Ghent University (Belgium)
• the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)
• the Institute for Marine Scientific Research (Ostend, Belgium)
• the European Aquaculture Society
• the ICES Mariculture Committee
• the American Fisheries Society, Early Life History Section
• INVE Aquaculture
• Sun Microsystems