Acronym NA
Category
Fisheries
Title Fishery at 78° - Small scale fishery for local value creation on Svalbard 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 Grete Lorentzen Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA - Basecamp Explorer (Norway) ,
NA - Direkte Markedsføringsbyrå AS (Norway) ,
MATIS - Matis Ltd (Iceland) ,
NA - Pole Position Logistics AS (Norway) ,
NA - Rantind AS (Norway) ,
NA - Svalbard Explorer (Norway) ,
NA - Svalbard Hotels (Norway) ,
Start year 2021 End year 2023 Funding (€) € 1,200,000 Website https://www.sintef.no/en/projects/2021/r-controlproject/ Summary The coal-mine industry on Svalbard has been drastically reduced, alternative income resources have been explored to ensure Norwegian presence in the Svalbard archipelago have been performed and explored, including the establishment of a research community and promotion of a tourism industry. The objective for the Norwegian government is to ensure that Longyearbyen also, in the future, remains a viable local community being attractive for livelihood, employment, and settlement. Due to the transition and challenges the Svalbard community is facing, and access to the highly valued marine resources; red king crab and snow crab, the project "Fishery at 78" is conceived. To create values of red king crab and snow crab at Svalbard, scientific knowledge including capture, live holding, processing, and development of culinary food experiences must be developed. This will be achieved through 4 work packages; WP1: Regulatory and economic conditions, WP2: Capture, live holding (LH), processing, and development of culinary experiences, WP3: Synthesis and evaluation with stakeholders, and WP4: Project management, coordination, and dissemination. Establishing live holding of crabs on Svalbard is not a "copy and paste" operation of the existing fishery along the coast of Finnmark as factors like climate change, retreating ice, access to the resource, water quality, and water temperature differs. Thus, experimental work to evaluate, test, adjust, and optimize, have to be performed to ensure good welfare and a low mortality of the crabs. The value creation linked to the exploitation of snow crab and red king crab will provide ample opportunities for the Svalbard community, serving tourists and visitors as well as the local population, by creating direct employment. Based on the results obtained, a detailed Svalbard Plan for capture, LH, processing, concepts of culinary experiences of both crab species will be developed and tailored to the tourism industry and the Svalbard community
Keywords
Crustacean fisheries;
Shellfish;
Food products;
Animal welfare;
Economy;
Product development;
Crustacean;
Small scale fisheries;
Crab;
Marine Region
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Spitzbergen and Bear Island (27.IIb)
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Marine Region Map
