Acronym Future Welfare
Category
Aquaculture
Title Environmental requirements and welfare indicators for new cage farming locations and systems 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 Pascal Klebert Coordinator email pascal.klebert@sintef.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
UiB - University of Bergen (Norway) ,
UNIMELB - University of Melbourne (Australia) ,
Start year 2017 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 880,100 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/267800?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=150&ProgAkt.3=HAVBRUK2-Stort+program+for+havbruksforskning Summary The Future Welfare project will address key knowledge gaps related to the behaviour and welfare of farmed salmon introduced by the rapid and recent development of an array of new farming systems and locations. These new farming systems attempt to reduce longstanding and intractable environmental problems such as salmon lice infestations and the escape of farmed fish. However, new knowledge is required to assess how these new farm types impact the behaviour and welfare of salmon. Future Welfare will first develop fundamental knowledge on production environments, fish behaviour and welfare in new farming systems and locations using three case studies of existing and planned technologies (exposed traditional cages, licebarrier skirt and snorkel cages, and submerged cages). We will generate knowledge of the adaptive capacity of fish within these new farming systems, and how this can be facilitated or encouraged for production and welfare benefit. Using results from each case study, we will adapt an existing standardized welfare assessment method to incorporate new welfare indicators and create a welfare assessment method suited for new farming systems. Finally, we will build a predictive biophysical model that integrates cage environments and fish behaviours to predict how new farming systems will affect fish behaviours and welfare. The predictive model will be made freely available to cage developers so that outcomes for fish can become central to technological design processes.
Keywords
Fish;
Animal welfare;
Open sea aquaculture;
Salmon;
Indicators;
Technology;
Engineering;
Cage aquaculture;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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