The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

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Aquaculture
Black lines in the muscle of cultured Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua)
National Programme
National
Marie Cooper
marie.cooper@nofima.no
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (Norway), 
2006
2009
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Black lines and spots observed in fillets have become a matter of concern for the producers of farmed cod. Whilst there is very little published material on the subject the problem is increasingly discussed throughout the industry. The phenomenon has also been observed in other species of farmed fish with white flesh. Earlier investigators examined the significance of light exposure and similar environmental influences on the appearance of black lines without reaching any firm conclusions as to either the cause of or the mechanisms underlying the deposition of melanin in the tissues. In this project we seek to determine the physiological mechanisms leading to excess production and inappropriate deposition of melanin. Previous studies have shown a connect ion between trace mineral nutrition, particularly with respect to copper in the diet, and the mechanisms leading to melanin synthesis. Further to these data we shall investigate the effect of copper in the diet on melanosis in farmed cod and the overall t race mineral status of farmed cod compared to wild cod
Diets; Cod; Fish health; Fish; Disease;
Not associated to marine areas
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