Acronym CrowdMonitor
Category
Aquaculture
Title Monitoring and optimizing the crowding of Atlantic salmon using emerging health and welfare indicators 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 Chris Noble Coordinator email chris.noble@nofima.no
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Cermaq Norway AS (Norway) ,
NA - Grieg Seafood Finnmark AS (Norway) ,
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
NA - MOWI ASA (Norway) ,
NRS - Norway Royal Salmon (Norway) ,
Start year 2020 End year 2022 Funding (€) € 1,020,124 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/901595/ Summary Handling farmed salmon typically involves several steps, e.g. fasting (starvation), crowding, pumping and various forms of treatment of the fish, e.g. mechanical deworming. Each step has its own specific challenges and risk factors for the fish's welfare and long-term health. Trapping is included in almost all handling procedures, and farmed salmon are trawled repeatedly both in the hatchery phase and in the sea phase. The needing process has been identified as one of the most crucial steps for successful welfare management. There are several operational welfare indicators (OVIs) to monitor and document the crowding process, but some of these, such as the widely used intensity scale for salmon crowding, need to be updated and documented. In recent years, there have been several new OVIs that can be included in new tool sets to document welfare and the effects of crowding on fish health and welfare. In addition, there is also a constant development and improvement of indicators that require samples to be sent to laboratories (LABVIs), but which can provide more accurate descriptions of the fish's health and welfare.
An important part of the CrowdMonitor project is to define and validate updated toolkits with health and welfare indicators for the need for salmon. These toolkits can consist of both OWIs and LABVIs for optimizing the stocking of salmon in aquaculture.
Keywords
Fish;
Indicators;
Salmon;
Animal welfare;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
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