Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Salmon Lice. The effect on Reputation, Economics and Industry Development 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 Frank Asche Coordinator email frank.asche@uis.no
Coordinator institution
UiS - University of Stavanger (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Not available (Not available) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 774,194 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/216114?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=120&ProgAkt.3=HAVBRUKS-Havbruk+-+en+n%C3%A6ring+i+vekst Summary The main objective of this project is, from a social science perspective, to obtain a better understand of the consequences of increased prevalence and attention to the salmon lice in the salmon farming industry. For the industry, the salmon lice have a series of consequences, the salmon grow slower and feed conversion rate as well as mortality increases. In addition increased lice population might lead to possible regulatory changes and even restrictions in future industry growth. We will estimate the costs related to these issues at the plant level. With the strong media attention on the issue, the industry's reputation has been challenged and there are numerous calls for stronger regulations and reduced access to production locations, possibly influencing the future viability of the industry. We will therefore also model and estimate the effect of a weaker reputation via a reduced demand for salmon and tighter regulations at the industry level. The project will be carried out in close interaction with the PrevenT project, a project that focus on reduction and treatment of salmon lice from a biological perspective. Hence, the project will estimate the reputation and economic consequences also of the different recommendations and treatments based on this project. Combined, this gives the opportunity to get a holistic perspective on an issue that has strong biological components as well as important societal and economic effects. The models developed will enable us to simulate consequences, benefits and cost of different treatments and regulatory measures, providing support in the process of how to handle an important issue in the most efficient way when addressing industry as well as societal concerns.
Keywords
Parasite;
Open sea aquaculture;
Fish;
Aquaculture industry;
Cage aquaculture;
Salmon;
Economy;
Marine Region
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