Acronym SFD Storskala
Category
Aquaculture
Title Seafarm Pulse Guard: beskyttelse av laks i oppdrett mot lakselus. Oppskalering fra småskala feltforsøk til fullskala produksjonsanlegg - Seafarm Pulse Guard: Protection of salmon in farming against salmon lice. Upscaling from small-scale field trials to full-scale production facilities 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 Fiona Provan Coordinator email fipr@norceresearch.no
Coordinator institution
SFD - SeaFarm Development (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2012 End year 2016 Funding (€) € 258,100 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/217519?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=90&ProgAkt.3=HAVBRUKS-Havbruk+-+en+n%C3%A6ring+i+vekst Summary The project will optimize and upscale the seafarm pulse guard (SPG) system to full-scale production in salmon farms, and assess potential negative biological effects on the fish in sea pens with the system installed. SPG is technology designed to combat sealice infection in seafarms. The system creates electrical pulses that form an electrical field in the sea in immediate vicinity to the sea pens, and this electrical field prevents the sealice to enter the pens and infect the fish. SPG is patented.
Goals:
(1) Transfer and upscale SPG system from pilot testing in situ to large scale production facilities in a full production cycle; (2) Assess and optimize the physical tolerance of the system, to withstand stress due to currents, waves and other stress that normally occur on seafarm locations; (3) Assess the health status of the fish and evaluate potential negative biological effects resulting from potential exposure to the electrical field.
Keywords
Fish;
Fish health;
Technology;
Salmon;
Parasite;
Cage aquaculture;
Animal welfare;
Open sea aquaculture;
Marine Region
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
1
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