Acronym TRANSDOTT
Category
Aquaculture
Title Translation of domestication of Thunnus thynnus into an innovative commercial application Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project targeted to a Special Group (such as SMEs)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
KBBE – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Christopher R. Bridges Coordinator email bridsges@hhu.de
Coordinator institution
HHU - Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany)
Institutions involved
NA - Ardag Agricultural Cooperative Society Ltd (Israel) ,
NA - Futuna Blue Spain SL (Spain) ,
IOLR - Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (Israel) ,
NA - MFF Ltd (Malta) ,
MRRA - Ministry for Resources and Rural Affairs (Malta) ,
NA - Panittica Pugliese SpA (Italy) ,
SKRET - Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre AS (Norway) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2014 Funding (€) € 1,181,931 Website http://www.transdott.eu/transdott/ Summary Due to declining stocks and increased fishing pressure there are serious concerns that the present fisheries and fattening industry for Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) is not sustainable and that every effort should be made to develop Bluefin Tune (BFT) aquaculture. TRANSDOTT represents a top-down approach from one Enterprise, four SME/s and three non SME/s to build on the scientific results obtained from two previous projects REPRODOTT in (FP5) and SELFDOTT (FP7) and to translate them into a commercially viable innovative marketable application for tuna aquaculture. Starting in April 2012, based on an already established brood-stock in a central Mediterranean major SME in Malta, fertilized tuna eggs will be provided in June 2012 and 2013 for larval rearing in three industrial scale hatchery SME/s for rearing scenarios in Spain, Israel and Italy together with two experimental hatcheries in Malta and Israel. RTD will involve the validation of existing protocols with the generation of fingerlings in late summer to be transferred from the industrial hatcheries to grow-out sea cages. Previously tried and tested, successful weaning and grow-out diets from SELFDOTT will be supplied by the Enterprise partner. The economic viability of these methodologies will be studied and used for the development of commercialization and capitalization of this process to provide sustainable Tuna Aquaculture.
WP1: (1) Scientific coordination of the project and set up of standardized protocols and methodologies amongst the partners. Planning individual actions; (2) Discussion of results, preparation of further work package work, preparation of reports. WP2: (1) To confirm spawning induction methods for commercial production of BFT fingerlings; (2) To Improve egg collection methods for more efficiency. WP3: (1) To determine safe limits for temperature, pH, and larval density during packing and transport and their influence on hatching rate and egg quality; (2) To decrease mortalities at critical stages of larval development. WP4: (1) To establish a larger number of fingerlings for grow-out; (2) To create a reliable method for the transportation of fingerlings from the rearing tanks to larger tanks or cages for grow-out; (3) To prevent high mortalities of juveniles after transfer for grow-out. WP5: (1) Dissemination of results; (2) To exploit the projects results and presents them to a commercial and scientific audience.
Keywords
Diets;
Larval mortality;
Land-based aquaculture;
Larval rearing;
Open sea aquaculture;
Fish;
Engineering;
Protocol;
Cage aquaculture;
Economy;
Larval development;
Tuna;
Marine Region
68
South Levant (GSA 26)
54
Balearic Island (GSA 5)
70
Malta Island (GSA 15)
3
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