Acronym FishBash
Category
Aquaculture
Title From blue waste to green resource: Fish sludge as fertiliser in agriculture 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 Eva Brod Coordinator email eva.brod@nibio.no
Coordinator institution
NIBIO - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2019 End year 2023 Funding (€) € 241,247 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/280312?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=30&TemaEmne.2=Havbruks-+og+foredlingsteknologi Summary "Aim: This project will contribute to the development of recycling fertilisers based on fish sludge that can replace the use of mineral fertiliser in agriculture.
Background: The linearity of nutrient flows makes current fish farming practices in Norway highly unsustainable. Using feed residues and faeces of farmed fish (fish sludge) as fertiliser in agriculture, can contribute to closing nutrient cycles. So far, the development of treatment technologies for fish sludge has mainly been motivated by keeping costs low, and by reducing odour rather than by producing high-quality fertiliser products. The coming fertiliser regulation is expected to impose the need for transportable fish sludge products to avoid soil accumulation of phosphorus in Western Norway. Therefore, both the aquaculture industry, agriculture and policy makers are in need of more knowledge on how to develop recycling fertiliser products based on fish sludge that can replace mineral fertiliser products in agriculture. This project is aiming at filling this gap.
Activities: The project will study the effect of different hatchery types, treatment technologies and feed types on the contents of nutrients and heavy metals in fish sludge. The quality of fish sludge as nitrogen (N) fertiliser and the effect on plant-available phosphorus in the soil will be studied in 2-year field experiments at two sites, and demonstration fields will be established. Also, the mineralisation rates of N in fish sludge products will be studied during an incubation experiment and related to N quality determined by various in-situ laboratory methods, including FTIR analysis (research stay at the University of Copenhagen). The results of the project will be disseminated through popular scientific and scientific publications, presented at conferences and discussed within a reference group. "
Keywords
Bioprospecting;
Product development;
Bioproduct;
Wastes;
Waste valorization;
Fish;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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