Acronym NA
Category
Seafood Processing
Title Norbait Crustacean Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National Coordinator Leif Grimsmo Coordinator email leif.grimsmo@sintef.no
Coordinator institution
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Institutions involved
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Start year 2022 End year 2023 Funding (€) € 200,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/332265?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=30<P.1=LTP2+Hav&source=FORISS&projectId=332312 Summary Norbait, the only company that has been producing bait on a commercial scale in Norway, will develop a new cost-effective bait for catching shellfish based on residual raw materials from seafood production. Norbait has built up a process line for bait production in Måløy that has already carried out initial production experiments in the winter of 2021/22. Today, there are mainly four types of baits used in the North Atlantic; herring, mackerel, squid and pacific saury. Herring and mackerel are caught from national stocks, while squid comes from the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean and pacific saury come from the Pacific Ocean. These species are also used for food with rising prices in the recent years. The bait represents a significant cost in pot fishing, while at the same time it takes as much effort, fuel and other input factors to pull an empty pot as a pot with good catch, therefore it is crucial to develop a bait that fishes at least as well as traditional bait.
In recent years, there has been an increasing demand after shellfish and especially the snow crab fisheries in the Barents Sea has had a strong increase where the annual quota of 6,500 tonnes was fished the first part of the 2021 season. Quotas and the economic value of snow crab fishing are expected to be the highest among Norwegian shellfish resources in the long term. At the same time, the pot fisheries has become more efficient in recent years, so that most of the bait, which the fishermen mainly previously fished themselves, is now purchased. The development of bait for pot fishing for snow crab and brown crab will therefore be the first priority in the Norbait-Crustacean project.
Keywords
Waste valorization;
Crab;
Shellfish;
Traps;
Crustacean;
Crustacean fisheries;
Marine Region
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