Start: 3. January 2011 | End 28. February 2015
AQUAEXCEL will provide the European research community with a platform of top class infrastructures efficiently offering tools to cope with the complex challenges the aquaculture is facing. Nofima's reserach facilities at Sunndalsøra, Tromsø and Averøy are part of these top class infrastructures.
Start: 1. April 2009 | End 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.
Start: 1. April 2009 | End 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.
Start: 1. January 2008 | End 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.
Start: 1. April 2011 | End 1. April 2012
Develop and adapt statistical models for utilization of indicator traits for chronically diseased fish.
Start: 1. January 2010 | End 31. December 2013
Francisellosis caused by the intracellular bacteria Francisella piscicida is today the biggest threat to Norwegian Atlantic cod aquaculture.
Start: 1. January 2006
Nofima has been working actively in Asia and Australasia since January 2006 to develop research collaborations and to support aquaculture activities.
Start: 1. January 2009 | End 1. March 2012
This project aims to introduce preventive health measures in aquaculture by optimizing swimming exercise to counteract life-style diseases of Atlantic salmon.
Start: 1. January 2012 | End 31. December 2014
In this project, financed by FHF we want to study the effects of pumping and handling of Atlantic salmon smolt.
Start: 15. October 2010 | End 15. October 2012
European seabass and gilthead seabream are multiple-spawning species. This puts a limitation to the development of traditional family-based breeding programs, as these need high control of the reproduction.
Start: 1. January 2011 | End 31. December 2013
The unique aspect of this project is to combine genetic information of the fish, with a careful selection and combination of lipid sources, to improve capacity for EPA and DHA production in Atlantic salmon, making this species a net producer of the healthy n-3 FAs.
Start: 1. January 2011 | End 31. December 2012
Excessive fat deposition, bone deformities, and inflammatory diseases are important problems faced by the intensive aquaculture industries today. Although not known for fish, these problems may be linked to nutritional programming at early life stages.
Start: 1. January 2009 | End 31. December 2012
Salmon lice on farmed Atlantic salmon (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) in Norway represents a large cost for the industry and a risk for infestation of wild salmonid species. The resistance to the lice may be improved through selective breeding.
Start: 25. November 2011 | End 15. March 2012
Determine the cost-effectiveness harvesting sea urchins and scallops
