Presently, the European fishery sector of live crustaceans used for human consumption (e.g. spiny lobster, European clawed lobster, Norway lobster, brown crab and spider crab) is subjected to a strong competitive pressure. The occurrence of high mortalities and the quality reduction of live crustacean commodity during transportation, storage and handling reduce the economic value of these animals, as well as the competiveness of this industry against non-European companies. Such problems still restrict the access of this European sector to distant markets. Therefore, innovation and technological development are fundamental tools to assure the viability of this important European productive sector. The CrustaSea project aims to improve the sector infra-structure and to initiate the process of enhancing the level of innovation and exploitation of technologies relatively to our global competitors in North America, Canada, and several Asian countries. New technologies of live crustacean transportation and storage will be tested and compared with traditional technologies, with the purpose of minimizing animal stress and mortality, and, at the same time, keeping a high nutritional and microbiological quality of crustaceans, such as: a) development of a patentable, cost effective crustacean grading unit for objective grading of such species into different qualities based on meat content; b) development of a patentable transportation technology consisting of “intelligent” transportation boxes comprising a floodable system for flushing of the live crustacean animals in order for them to discharge waste components from metabolism through their gills; and c) an integrated water treatment system to remove ammonia from the water, thereby reducing the amount of water needed per transportation vessel and increasing the crustacean survival during transportation.