Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Marine Challenge Programme 2020 Programme Nat. Programme (supported by ESIF)
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 Geoffrey Robinson Coordinator email geoffrey.robinson@bim.ie
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA - Clear Seas Aqua (Ireland) (Ireland) ,
MI - Marine Institute (Ireland) ,
NA - MOWI (Ireland) ,
Start year 2020 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 124,000 Website NA Summary The initial six months after transferring salmon smolt to sea can be very problematic with the young salmon being stressed not only by the process of smoltification but also being challenged with AGD, Sea lice, phytoplankton, and other environmental health issues. It has been observed that once the fish in the sea have safely reached an average weight of one kilo or more that they are much more resistant to these risk factors. Thus, if the ‘young’ fish can be protected for the initial period after they are put to sea then the final outcome should be much improved. In addition, we recognized that naturally occurring events in the marine environment could challenge fish greater than 1kg and we set out to establish what these variables were via the development and deployment of a real time sensors with data logging capability for later interpretation. The principal project objective was to establish if it is feasible to grow juvenile salmon in a closed containment system deployed from a conventional sea pen. Another objective was to progress the use of monitoring systems by the sector. Current real-time monitoring systems are very costly and require ongoing user maintenance in order to collect reliable marine data, these factors have resulted in sub optimal marine monitoring. When mortality events have occurred in the past, there is no information on which to base management strategies or future decision making, this is due to the transient nature of these issues.
Keywords
Cage aquaculture;
Engineering;
Salmon;
Fish health;
Fish;
Open sea aquaculture;
Monitoring;
Marine Region
26
Northwest Coast of Scotland and North Ireland (27.VIa)
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