Acronym WELFARE SEVERITY
Category
Aquaculture
Title Frameworks for classifying the welfare of farmed Atlantic salmon based upon the principles of severity assessment 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 Tore S Kristiansen Coordinator email torek@hi.no
Coordinator institution
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Norecopa (Norway) ,
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway) ,
NVI - Norwegian Veterinary Institute (Norway) ,
WUR - Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2021 End year 2025 Funding (€) € 1,156,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/326980?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=0&Fag.2=Klinisk+veterin%C3%A6rmedisinske+fag Summary The WELFARE SEVERITY project is a concerted action involving IMR, NVI, NOFIMA, Wageningen UR, Norecopa, and major salmon farming and well boat companies and aquaculture organisations. Its primary goal is to address an urgent shortfall and develop common severity assessment frameworks for classifying the welfare of salmon in aquaculture. Firstly, we will conduct comparative studies of the severity of stress responses to various delousing treatment components and the effects of scale loss on fish welfare. We will then conduct literature reviews on how injuries and disease signs are likely to affect the fish and weight how much each indicator impacts upon fish welfare according to the principles of semantic modelling. By utilising industry data and farm visits, we will then create an applied database of scenarios describing welfare consequences of delousing operations and disease outbreaks. A set of scenarios will then be presented to a large panel of stakeholders (scientists, farmers, veterinarians, food safety inspectors, NGOs) who will be asked to assess the severity of the scenarios, classifying them from very low to severe. By using the Delphi method, the panel will work towards consensus of what scenarios belong to each severity classification. The end-product will be severity assessment frameworks that include a set of scenarios that can be used as a yardstick for the severity classification of new industry scenarios. Finally, we will explore how the frameworks can be used as a governmental tool to promote fish health and welfare in the industry.
Keywords
Cage aquaculture;
Animal welfare;
Parasite;
Open sea aquaculture;
Fish;
Fish health;
Salmon;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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