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.

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Last Update: 2024/06/19

ECHOFEEDING
Aquaculture
Echo sounder technology for appetite-led-feeding and welfare-monitoring of caged salmon
National Programme
National
Ole Folkedal
ole.folkedal@hi.no
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway)
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway),  UNIMELB - University of Melbourne (Australia), 
2017
2021
€ 880,100
https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/267815?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=180&ProgAkt.3=HAVBRUK2-Stort%20program%20for%20havbruksforskning
The primary aim is to develop methodology for using echo sounder technology for appetite-led feeding of caged salmon (ECHOFEEDING). This will involve the following objectives: Establish optimal feeding intensities and echo sounder surveillance volumes (area and depth covered by transducer). Different feeding intensities (strength of fish feeding response), transducer beam widths and depth positions will be investigated. Conduct long-term deployment of ECHOFEEDING to assess the influence of increasing fish size, and changes in fish swimming depth relating to seasonal and environmental changes. Compare ECHOFEEDING with traditional manual batch feeding by evaluating feed intake, fish growth, sea lice infestation and fish behaviour. Use deviations between actual fed amount measured (by ECHOFEEDING) and predicted appetite as a continuous welfare indicator.
Engineering; Cage aquaculture; Open sea aquaculture; Salmon; Animal welfare;
Not associated to marine areas
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