Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Climate Change and the Impacts on Farming of Salmon in the Coastal Areas of Norway 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 Torbjørn Lorentzen Coordinator email torbjorn.lorentzen@uni.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
UiB-BCCR - University of Bergen; Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (Norway) ,
Start year 2008 End year 2012 Funding (€) € 254,239 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/184645?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=90&ProgAkt.3=NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer+og+konsekvenser+for+Norge Summary Global warming is expected to affect the ecosystem in the Northeast Atlantic. The objective of the project is to analyze the potential economic and organizational effect changes in sea temperature may have on the Norwegian salmon farming industry. The primal R&D challenge is to model the causal link between temperature change via the growth and the mortality rate function for farmed fish and assess the economic effect. The project is important both mothodologically and practically. An explicitly integration of the oscillating monthly temperature into the growth and mortality rate function has not been done before in the aquaculture literature. The model provides us with a tool for doing scenario and risk analyzes which measure how changes in climate can affect the salmon farming industry along the coast of Norway (how the effects are distributed geographically, for example between southernmost and northernmost coastal areas). The project will also analyze how global warming will affect production in other salmon farming countries and the economic implication for the Norwegian industry. The results of the project are valuable for, respectively the industry, for the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affaires and for the Directorate of Fisheries, with regard to planning for future allocation of sea areas and the need for adaptation to a dynamic changing environment. The analysis will in general be a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about climate change and the socio-economic impacts. The project is also based on interdisciplinary cooperation between Bjerknes Center for Climate Reseach (BCCR) and Institute for Marine Reseach (IMR).
Keywords
Open sea aquaculture;
Cage aquaculture;
Salmon;
Aquaculture industry;
Impacts;
Climate change;
Economy;
Fish;
Marine Region
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Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
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