Acronym MARAQUAFEED
Category
Aquaculture
Title Preserved zooplankton as a diet for marine aquaculture species Programme International Cooperation
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-European Coordinator Bard Skogstad Coordinator email baard@resman.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
IPIMAR - Portuguese Institute for Fisheries and Sea Research (Portugal) ,
SINTEF-SFH - SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (Norway) ,
NA - SPAROS Lda (Portugal) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 1,608,835 Website https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/networks/eurostars/cut-off-13-3-2014/preserved-zooplankton-as-a-diet-for-marine-aquaculture-species Summary To develop a protocol for the novel diet from the SME Planktonic to substitute the existing sub-optimal feeding regimes used at marine hatcheries. New feeding systems will be evaluated, and natural variation of plankton characterized. First feeding is a bottle-neck for an economically viable marine aquaculture production.
Goals:
(1) Characterize the biochemical variation of the copepod raw material for use as a processed food particle and as a component in diets for marine fish larvae and juveniles; (2) Evaluate methods of increasing the time Planktonic diets stay suspended in the water column and available to the fish larvae; (3) Sparos will produce a copepod-enriched dry diet to be used as a follow-up feed for marine fish post-larvae and fry; (4) (i) Develop an optimized feeding protocol for marine larvae/juveniles by the use of Planktonic diets; (ii) Compare standard feeding protocols with Planktonic diets; (iii) Evaluate the effect on the larvae using the Planktonic diets and standard commercial diets; (5) (i) Perform industrial scale feeding experiments with two marine fish species (seabream and wrasse); (ii) Evaluate the effect on the fish species (seabream and wrasse); (iii) Implement the feeding system (WP2) in the feeding trials; (iv) Inclusion of copepod biomass in experimental fish on-grown diets; (6) (i) Describe target marine species which are produced commercially worldwide, and estimate the market size for the Planktonic/Sparos diets for the various species; (ii) Evaluate willingness to pay for Planktonic and Sparos products in the various segments of the market. Also included in this work, a calculation of the cost of live feed diets in the various regions will be performed; (iii) Describe the most important species with regard to future development, technological status, logistical challenges, trade barriers and competing diets; (iv) Identify central participants on the various market segments both potential customers and distributors; (v) Work out a market strategy for the product line of feed.
Keywords
Larval rearing;
Fish;
Feed composition;
Zooplankton;
Protocol;
Diets;
Wrasse;
Seabream;
Marine Region
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