The three scientists, who work at Nofima Marked, have over the past year studied how consumers will react when they know the catch and slaughter date when new regulations come into force on January 1.
The Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry Research Fund (FHF) is behind the prize, which was presented during a national aquaculture conference in Oslo on Friday.
This prize is NOK 20,000.
The three scientists had engaged in active, good and people-oriented dissemination of the results parallel with their research, according to the jury’s reasoning, which added:
"They have participated in public forums, been interviewed, written various press releases and articles and are now working on an information leaflet. Among the channels utilised are the conference "Trygg-mat-dagen" (Safe food day), the magazines "Fisk, industri & marked" (Fish, industry and market) and "Norsk Sjømat" (Norwegian seafood) and the research website forskning.no."
Honoured for long-term dissemination effort
FHF also awarded a prize for a long-term contribution to research dissemination in the industry.
This prize went to Nofima scientist Jens Østli, who consequently picked up his second award.
The jury provided the following reasoning:
"Over a period of many years, Jens Østli has enriched the seafood industry with easily read literature and easy understood public lectures. He has with both enthusiasm and seriousness disseminated specialist information within an extremely broad field. Østli has not least distinguished himself in the area of salted fish and clipfish, where he among other things this year has had a central role in the compilation of the Bacalao Forum’s information leaflet "Bacalao - ¿qué es?".
This prize is NOK 10,000.
