Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Velferdsmessige aspekter av fôrrestriksjon for villfanget torsk - Welfare aspects of feed restriction for wild-caught cod Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP6 - SMEs-Co-operative Research Contract
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Specific Research Activities for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Trond Rosten Coordinator email trond.rosten@niva.no
Coordinator institution
Akvaplan-niva - Akvaplan-niva AS (Norway)
Institutions involved
AUA - Agricultural University of Athens (Greece) ,
NA - Argosaronikos Fish Farming SA (Greece) ,
NA - Hesy Bergambacht BV (Netherlands) ,
RACTI - Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (Greece) ,
NA - SagaFjord Sea Farm AS (Norway) ,
NA - Sagro Aquaculture Ltd (Cyprus) ,
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway) ,
NA - Viveiro Vila Nova SA (Portugal) ,
Start year 2008 End year 2009 Funding (€) € NA Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/342044/ Summary This report demonstrates that captured wild North Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) adapt rapidly to experimental starvation conditions and also appear to tolerate absence of food during the 16 week experimental period at temperatures of 8–10 °C. Our work builds upon and confirms scattered findings in the literature that cod and other gadoids are well adapted to tolerate periods of absence of food. Further, cod seem to rapidly recover muscle mass and energy reserves when offered food after a period of feed restriction. In our experiments, where cod were starved over a 12 week period, we revealed some differences in blood plasma ions and glucose concentrations between groups of starved and fed cod. The differences, though they are minor, might indicate that food restriction challenged the osmoregulation of plasma ions. The responses are sub-lethal and do not cause increased mortality in the feed restricted groups.
Keywords
Fish;
Engineering;
Land-based aquaculture;
Larval rearing;
Prototype;
Technology;
Marine Region
45
Southern Adriatic Sea (GSA 18)
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
2
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