Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Ny teknologi for overvåking av oppdrettsmiljø og fiskevelferd i oppdrettsmerder - New technology for monitoring the farming environment and fish welfare in fish farms 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 Oyvind Aas-Hansen Coordinator email oyvind.aas-hansen@nofima.no
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2008 End year 2010 Funding (€) € 120,904 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/900085/ Summary The aim of this project was to develop new technology for monitoring fish welfare in commercial sea cages. The project has advanced the technological development of two complementary systems: The Welfaremeter-system, developed by Institute of Marine Research, involves monitoring environmental parameters with on-line communication to a web-based fish welfare database for processing and analyses. The SmartTag-system, developed by Nofima marine and Thelma Biotel AS, involves using acoustic telemetry for measuring respiration in free-swimming fish as an indicator of welfare and stress. Next step is testing the integrated use of these systems in a commercial Atlantic salmon sea farm in 2010.
Goals:
• To develop an appropriate measurement tool for studying and acquiring knowledge about the connection between environmental data and fish welfare
• To develop a long-term system for monitoring and documentation of aquaculture environment and fish welfare in commercial fish farms in Norway and abroad. In a simplified version of a total system, it will be possible to develop a simple system for monitoring and early warning of abnormal stress behavior in fish in the farming cage.
Keywords
Open sea aquaculture;
Indicators;
Animal welfare;
Cage aquaculture;
Monitoring;
Fish;
Engineering;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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