Acronym CandRAS
Category
Aquaculture
Title Competence and education within land-based production of salmon in recycling facilities 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 Bjørn-Steinar Sæther Coordinator email bjorn.s.sather@uit.no
Coordinator institution
UiT - The Arctic University of Norway (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2022 End year 2028 Funding (€) € 2,800,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/331892 Summary CandRAS shall contribute to value creation and adaptability in the business world by strengthening the regional research and education capacity and giving the business world better access to relevant education and research. The project targets the aquaculture industry, which is undergoing an ongoing restructuring of hatchery production to increasingly water and energy-efficient closed facilities based on the reuse of water (so-called RAS facilities). Troms and Finnmark are already a significant producer of salmon at sea, and the industry is in the process of meeting its own need for hatchery fish in the region with heavy investments in land-based production of smolt. An expected increase in future production at sea can only be covered by a further increase in capacity on land. In addition, there is growing interest in producing salmon further towards slaughter in closed facilities on land. The change in production technology from flow-through plants, where the water is used once, to water-saving plants with water recycling (RAS) offers a number of opportunities, but also significant challenges. The entire production is intensified in the more capital-intensive form of production, and the knowledge requirements for how the fish's biological needs are met by technological solutions are increasing strongly. The industry players are constantly experiencing new challenges related to operations, welfare and quality of the fish in the facilities, and the need for knowledge and expertise has increased significantly. The aim of the project is to increase competence in the biology of fish and in what ways it is challenged by production in closed facilities with recycling technology. We shall achieve this with closer cooperation and dialogue between research and educational environments and business players. The project will contribute to increasing the capacity for, and ensure the relevance of, education and research within RAS biology in Troms and Finnmark, with education at different levels; EVU for industry players, VGS aquaculture, as well as the development of a new disciplinary study within RAS biology at UiT.
Keywords
Water quality;
Recirculating systems;
Fish;
Animal welfare;
Salmon;
Land-based aquaculture;
Fish biology;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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