Acronym NA
Category
Fisheries
Title Physiological and behavioural indicators for fish welfare assessment in aquaculture and fish capture 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 Tore S Kristiansen Coordinator email torek@imr.no
Coordinator institution
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2006 End year 2010 Funding (€) € 1,178,500 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/173538?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=0&TemaEmne.2=F%C3%B4r%20og%20ern%C3%A6ring Summary "Seafood consumers are concerned about animal welfare and recent white papers states that Norway should take a leading position to ensure acceptable animal welfare standards as basis of an sustainable and ethical aquatic production. Institute of Marine Res earch (IMR), Bergen has a leading role in advising the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs on fish welfare issuses and has responded by making fish welfare one of 3 focus areas for future aquaculture reserach. However, fish welfare research is a new dicipline, and both research methods, infrastructure and basic knowlegde needs to be further developed to improve scientific risk analysis and advise on management strategies in this field. The current SIP proposal will complement and strenhgten current research by increasing IMRs physiological and behavioural toolbox relevant for welfare assessment and include welfare questions related to fish capture.
This will include:
·Develop existing physiological and behavioural models to study performance and welfare of fish in complex environments
·Develop experimental facilities tailored to address challenges about basic stress physiology, capacity for aerobic respiration and buoyancy control of target species in fisheries and aquaculture
·Explore the association between physiological stress response and cognitive interpretation of stressors
·Use these facilities and basic knowledge to address questions related to swimming endurance, exhaustion and forced decompression during fish capture and welfare consequences for fish escaping the fishing gear or left to recover in net cages (CBA)
·Test model-generated hypotheses about the performance, stress response and welfare of conditioned or unconditioned hatchery reared fish in time varying environmental regimes and effects of new feed sources in controlled tank studies.
·Develop operational protocols for assessment of welfare and responsible handling and farming of cod"
Keywords
Animal welfare;
Protocol;
Fish;
Cod;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
Marine Region Map
