Acronym Profish
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Title Targeted disease prohylaxis in marine fish farming Programme National Programme
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Funding source National Coordinator Niels Lorenzen Coordinator email NA
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Start year 2012 End year 2016 Funding (€) € 1,600,000 Website http://profishvac.au.dk/ Summary "The Danes have increasingly begun to appreciate fish as a healthy and tasty diet. The declining natural fishing resources have meant that aquaculture has gradually assumed an increased role as a supplier of fish to the food industry. But while aquaculture is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide, production in Denmark has been stagnant due to, among other things, heightened environmental concerns.
New technology and knowledge about the marine environment means that it has been possible to open up a significant increase in the production of rainbow trout in marine aquaculture. Here, however, it has been shown that disease outbreaks, especially in the summer months, pose a significant problem. Vaccines developed for Norwegian salmon farming have not been effective and antibiotic consumption has therefore been unacceptably high.
This project will characterize the disease-causing bacteria and develop tailored effective vaccines for fish farming in Danish sea areas. In this way, disease outbreaks can be prevented instead of treated. This will improve the welfare of the fish and provide a more environmentally friendly production without losses due to disease outbreaks and with a minimal need for antibiotics. This will create the basis for a sustainable expansion of marine fish farming in Denmark, and both the food industry and consumers will be able to be supplied with healthy raw materials produced in Denmark to a greater extent.
The project is a collaboration between Danish and foreign researchers, the aquaculture industry and vaccine and feed manufacturers.
The project is organized into seven work packages (WPs):
WP1 Project management
WP2 Development of an experimental autogenous injection vaccine
WP3 Characterization of protective immune mechanisms
WP4 Aeromonas salmonicida epidemiology
WP5 Optimizing the vaccination strategy under laboratory conditions
WP6 Vaccine testing under field conditions
WP7 Project synthesis, dissemination and training"
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