Acronym QMAR
Category
Aquaculture
Title Unlocking the nutritional and technical Quality potential of MARine by-products in sustainable salmonid feeds 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 Hanne Jorun Sixten Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NA - AKER BIOMARINE ANTARCTIC AS (Norway) ,
NA - Norsildmel AS (Norway) ,
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway) ,
NA - Pelagia AS (Norway) ,
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway) ,
UCLA - University of California, Los Angeles (United States of America) ,
Start year 2017 End year 2021 Funding (€) € 832,499 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/268987?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 Summary In QMAR, we will address two major challenges in sustainable growth of the salmonid aquaculture: A) Environmentally responsible growth, demanding timely and efficient exploitation of underutilised marine raw materials, and B) Formulation of future feeds that support high fish performances and welfare, requiring more basic and practical knowledge on the marine meal properties and metabolic functions and the respective shortcomings of plant raw materials. The innovative idea of this project is to tackle these two major challenges combined, and building on existing scientific results on marine water solubles (MWS), significantly advance our knowledge for the production of high performing raw materials and sustainable diets with low contents of marine ingredients for salmonids. The main objectives of QMAR are to 1) Identify marine by-product ingredients and fractions that promote feed intake and healthy fish growth 2) Define the process (e.g. by hydrolysis) to increase the yield of vital components in marine supplements in plant based feeds and 3) Understand the metabolic pathways affected by essential appetite and growth promoting components along the gut/brain axis in salmonids. The results from this project will enable us to substitute FM and krill meal with MWS, thus increasing sustainability and profitability of the aquaculture sector in Norway and abroad.
Keywords
Salmon;
Feed composition;
Byproducts;
Fish meal replacement;
Fish;
Fish health;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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