Acronym NORTH COD
Category
Aquaculture
Title Sustainable development of cod farming Programme Interreg III
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
Strand B
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
Northern Periphery
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Oddvar Ottesen Coordinator email oddvar.ottesen@nforsk.no
Coordinator institution
NRI - Nordland Research Institute (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Bodo University College (Norway) ,
NA - Bunes Marine AS (Norway) ,
NA - IceCod Ltd (Iceland) ,
NA - Lofilab AS (Norway) ,
MMBI - Murmansk Marine Biological Institute (Russian Federation) ,
NA - Nufish Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
NA - Orkney Marine Hatcheries Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
SAMS - Scottish Association for Marine Science (United Kingdom) ,
UoS-IOA - University of Stirling; Institute of Aquaculture (United Kingdom) ,
Start year 2005 End year 2007 Funding (€) € 631,941 Website http://www.kg2.eurocean.org/proj.jsp?load=100074 Summary Historically, the most important fish species in the northern periphery has been cod. However, recent years have witnessed a decline in wild fish stocks. With the decline in wild fisheries for cod, aquaculture of this species has become commercially realistic and is now an emergent industry in northern periphery countries. Aquaculture of cod has a valuable potential role in the development and employment opportunities in the northern periphery area and could provide alternative employment for displaced fishermen and breathe new life into rural communities currently suffering due to the declining fishing industry. However, for that to happen, the hatcheries have to be enabled to become commercially viable through improvements in survival of cod larvae and juveniles in the hatcheries. NorthCod aims to achieve this through co-operation, joint research and organised exchange of information in the northern periphery area. The success of cod farming depends on a good supply of cod fry. While advances have been made in production of fry, mortality in the larval and juvenile periods is still high and limiting production. Different hatcheries and countries use different culture regimes. The NorthCod project is therefore aimed at exchanging and standardising fish production information in the northern periphery area to maximise knowledge of production systems and improve the efficiency of the production systems. This will involve benchmarking across hatcheries in the area and production of a cod hatchery production manual utilising best practice and ensuring best standards of fish welfare.
Keywords
Larval rearing;
Land-based aquaculture;
Fish;
Cod;
Aquaculture development;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
0
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