Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Adapting monitoring tools for bacterial load detection in closed marine fish farms: for improved fish health and reduced mortalities Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Heidrun Inger Wergeland Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2017 End year 2021 Funding (€) € 821,053 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/267545?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=180&TemaEmne.2=Marin+bioteknologi Summary Stable water quality is one of the main benefits of closed fish farms by providing a more controllable living environment for farmed fish. Closed systems are also potential incubators for bacterial selection. Compared to open systems, the enhanced water stability allows more representative and valid data upon bacteria composition and load. Thus, knowledge based surveillance programs can be implemented to predict bacterial risk of infection caused by both opportunistic and obligate pathogens. The aim of this project is to implement and streamline bacterial load monitoring tools of closed marine farms to monitor risk factors for impaired fish health. Regular use of high resolution tools upon community member's 16S identification, allows pathogens detection to genera and species level. Further, molecular tools allow detection even to subspecies level that is needed to determine virulence of the classic pathogens. The project has a third monitoring tool for detection of the virulence "on" switch in opportunistic bacteria by GC/LC-MS quantification, biosensors and RT-QPCR of expressed regulatory genes. Tenacibaculum is the model organism, frequently observed and documented to cause infections in closed systems. The streamlined protocols for microbial monitoring in closed fish farms will be basis for design of rational preventive routines and measures to meet the risk of infections and reduced water quality. The three closed rearing concepts are; a marine RAS for enhanced growth of salmon smolt and two with direct flow through system -being "Egget" and a lump fish farm- with regular removal or no of biofilm removal respectively. The project embraces national and international co-operation, and institutional knowledge transfer. This interdisciplinary project use cutting edge methodology and expertise from environmental microbiology to be implemented for bacterial monitoring of closed fish farming systems. Several masters will be posted and the project has female leader.
Keywords
Fish;
Lump fish;
Recirculating systems;
Biosensors;
Fish health;
Bacteria;
Salmon;
Genetic;
Monitoring;
Land-based aquaculture;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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