Projects

What is happening in major european markets for white fish fillets?

Startdato: 19. February 2010 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2010

The European seafood market is an ever changing market place. Consumers in several European markets can choose between different types of fish filets when shopping.

Adding product value to sustainable fisheries

Startdato: 31. December 2006 | Sluttdato: 30. December 2010

The purpose of this project is to develop knowledge that can contribute to adding value to marine resources, to improve shortcomings in management regimes and to further develop theories on harvesting strategies that impact on adding value to marine sources.

Bioactive lipids and your health

Startdato: 1. January 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2012

Health is a highly important innovative area for the food industry in the years ahead, and the number of new health-optimised products and meals for various consumers in different situations is on the increase.

BioTracer

Startdato: 1. January 2007 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2010

The aim of the project is to improve the biological traceability of undesirable micro-organisms and their substances in the food and feed chains.

Breeding for improved fish welfare in aquaculture

Startdato: 1. April 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. March 2012

Welfare of fish can be improved by breeding. Therefore, the aim of this project is to develop methods to improve fish welfare in aquaculture breeding programmes.

Buyer-seller relationships between Norway and Russia

Startdato: 1. June 2008 | Sluttdato: 30. December 2011

This is a Ph.D. project investigating buyer-seller relationships between Norway and Russia.

Cardiomyopathy syndrome

Startdato: 1. July 2008 | Sluttdato: 30. June 2011

A multi-task approach to reduce losses and improve knowledge.

Decontamination of persistent organic pollutants in fishmeal and fish oil (DECONTAM)

Startdato: 1. January 2007 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2010

The main objectives of the project are to optimize a novel oil-based leaching process to reduce the POPs content in fishmeal without loss of protein quality, and to identify optimal conditions for decontamination of the oil used in the process.

Dietary fibre and health

Startdato: 1. January 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2012

It has been scientifically proved that dietary fibre can reduce the risk of many chronic disorders, such as diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disorders and intestinal cancer. But the details of the structure of dietary fibre and how it works are not entirely known.

Driftsundersøkelsen i fiskeindustrien

Startdato: 29. November 1976 | Sluttdato: 1. January 2100

Education and training exchange program in Genetics and Breeding

Startdato: 1. April 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. March 2012

Nofima and partners in Australia are setting up a training and exchange program in aquaculture genetics. Target groups of the program are owners, managers, geneticists and hatchery staff involved in selective breeding in Australia.

Experiencing food: Sensory perception and consumer choice

Startdato: 1. January 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2012

The aim of this project is to explain various aspects of sensory perception and the experience of food through a particular focus on health, the composition of products, product information, consumer attitudes and expectations, and the importance of the situation for consumption.

FermSafe

Startdato: 1. January 2007 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2010

The main goal is to optimize production of Norwegian type dry fermented sausage (DFS) for minimizing the risk of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) contamination

Fillet properties of organic salmon - a preliminary study

Startdato: 1. March 2010 | Sluttdato: 1. July 2010

The aim of this study is to perform a preliminary characterization of quality properties of organic salmon.

Fish welfare and performance in recirculating aquaculture systems

Startdato: 1. January 2008 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2012

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), in which fish tank water is recycled with the aid of biological filters, is little used in Norway. RAS may offer advantages over traditional flow-through (FT) systems, regarding sustainability and fish welfare, but these aspects have been little studied for Atlantic salmon smolt production.

Food consumption: Changing preferences or stable habits?

Startdato: 1. January 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2011

Increase in food-related diseases, also in Norway, emphasizes the importance of exploring how food choices are made and which factors influence them.

Fruit and vegetables - from raw materials to beneficial effects on health

Startdato: 1. January 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2012

The recommendations of the World Health Organisation are based on research results which clearly show that a diet beneficial to health is rich in "green foods" - food based on raw materials from plants, such as fruit, berries, vegetables, legumes, herbs/spices and nuts. These recommendations, however, are pretty general and say nothing of what actually happens in these products during processes, s...

FutureWheat

Startdato: 1. January 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2012

"FutureWheat" is the short name for the project whose full title is "The effect of climatic variations on the baking quality of wheat - adaptations in future Norwegian wheat production".

Generation of gonadless farmed cod by specific ablation of primordial germ cells

Startdato: 1. January 2009 | Sluttdato: 31. December 2011

One of the greatest problems in cod aquaculture today is the premature onset of sexual maturation. This can be circumvented by sterilizing the fish using a variety of alternative methods, which differ in efficiency and undesired side-effects.

Genome-wide approaches to the genetic improvement of cattle, pigs and salmon

Startdato: 1. January 2007 | Sluttdato: 1. January 2011

This project seeks to make best use of DNA data in commercial breeding schemes across the species of cattle, pigs and salmon.