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Bacteriophage Biocontrol for Norwegian Aquaculture: Initial Studies

The National Veterinary Institute (NVI) has for several years now, through various avenues, attempted to obtain funding for study of specific bacteriophage therapy as an alternative to antibiotic treatment/prophylaxis in aquaculture. Funding for a reasona bly extensive project has not been obtain...

Awarded: NOK 91,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Ichthyobodo infections in farmed fish; diagnostics and prophylaxis

Ichthyobodosis is regarded as one of the most economically important parasitic diseases in Norwegian salmon farms. In addition to cause disease and mortality among salmonids reared in both fresh- and seawater, Ichthyobodo infections have also caused probl em to Norwegian farmed marine species lik...

Awarded: NOK 1.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Vestland

BILATNAER-Bilat.samarb.m.N-AM,Kina,Jpn,I

Food safety and food chain traceability within the mackerel food chain between Norway and Japan

During the last 5 years SINTEF and Nofima has develloped a research relations with the Japanese institutions Food Market Research Center and National Research Institute of Fisheries Science withing food safety and traceability. In Japan food quality and food safety are of high importance, and ...

Awarded: NOK 6.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Breeding for improved fish welfare in aquaculture

Prosjektet er delt inn i tre arbeidspakker. WP1 tar for seg feltoverlevelse hos laks. Data samlet inn av avlsselskapet Salmobreed har blitt brukt til å estimere arvegrad for overlevelse i ferskvannsfase og sjøfase for Atlantisk laks. Datamaterialet inneho lder overlevelsesdata fra to årsklasser (...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Hydroids on aquaculture constructions in Norway (HYDROFOUL)

Marine biofouling is the undesirable accumulation of organisms on submerged surfaces. Biofouling poses a major problem for the aquaculture industry, because of its negative effects on farm constructions and operations, fish welfare, and the effects of cur rent antifouling solutions on the environ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

SAFEFOODERA Effects of climate change on emerging natural toxins in plant and seafood production (emtox)

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Awarded: NOK 0.41 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Scottish Aquaculture: A sustainable future

The Royal Society of Edinburgh og Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi står sammen bak en internasjonal akvakulturkonferanse ("A sustainable future") som vil bli holdt i Edinburgh 21. og 22. april 2009 og den blir organisert av Scottish Aquaculture Research Foru m (SARF). Vitenskapsakademiene i Skottl...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Effektivisert avl for bedre helse og sykdomsresistens hos oppdrettsarter - nye statistiske modeller

Tradisjonelt har avl for økt sykdomsresistens blitt basert på smitte-testing mot spesifikke sykdommer, der testen normalt stoppes i det 50% dødelighet er oppnådd. Dette har ofte vist seg å være effektivt i praktisk avlsarbeid mot flere sykdommer. Under en kelte forhold vil klassisk smitte-testing...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Møre og Romsdal

NAERINGSPH-Nærings-phd

Towards Sustainable Fish Feed Production Using Novel Protein Sources

The project aims at developing scientific understanding needed to produce new fish feed products in a more sustainable and cost-effective way. Supply of fish meal has become one of the limiting factors in growing aquaculture production. In todays fish fe ed manufacturing practice, there are dema...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Rogaland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Lakselus: Erfaringer med, og bekjempelse av lakselus i lakseoppdrett

En tentativ innholdsfortegnelse ser slik ut: 1. Generelt om lus (historisk oppdummering) 2. Måling og spredning av middel i merd 3. Strøm og ekkoloddundersøkelser ved badebehandling 4. Status utvikling av helpressenning 5. Bruk av leppefisk 6. Telling 7. Brønnbåt 8. Fôr 9. Fiskehelsetjenesten 1...

Awarded: NOK 69,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

SAFEFOODERA - Effects of climate change on emerging natural toxins in plant and seafood production (EMTOX)

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Awarded: NOK 0.16 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

SUSTAFISH: Sustainable aquaculture: water quality as a test parameter for meeting sustainability certification and management requirements

Fish is an important source of protein worldwide. Ensuring that the fish sold is sustainably produced is in focus from producer organisations, retailers and consumers. Development and implementation of certification schemes is considered as one tool to he lp towards a more sustainable aquaculture...

Awarded: NOK 24,999

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Innovative use of bioactive marine ingredients as a strategy to sustain growth and health of Atlantic salmon and to improve flesh quality

- The present project will evaluate potential growth and health promoting compounds present in marine raw materials that are absent in plant protein sources. Most work on fish meal replacement has focused on essential amino acids and lipids, minerals and antinutritional compounds in plant protei...

Awarded: NOK 7.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Political-institutional change in China, the EU, India and USA and their consequences for Norwegian primary industry policies

The project is designed as a comparative case study. It should be noted, however, that the selection of cases is based on neither the "most similar", nor the "most different" strategy for case studies. China, India, the EU and USA are selected, not merely as cases, but because they are some of t...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Rogaland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Why do cod females become eggbound? Studies on possible causes and mechanisms

High mortality amoong female cod that are unable to release their eggs is a significant welfare, as well as economic, problem in the cod farming industry, both among broodstock and in ongrowth systems. The underlying causes for this mortality are not full y understood, and it is not clear if the ...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

FRIMEDBIO-Fri prosj.st. med.,helse,biol

Maturation of the electrophysiological and intracellular signaling systems in teleost gonadotropes during puberty

Hovedmålet til dette prosjektet er å belyse hvordan reguleringsmekanismen til de hormonproduserende gonadotrope cellene i hypofysen modnes under pubertetsutviklingen, med fokus på komponenter som deltar i elektrofysiologisk signalisering trigget av frigjø ringshormonet GnRH. Vi bruker torsk og me...

Awarded: NOK 6.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Properties of Calanus oil as nutritional supplement and functional food ingredient

Calanus® AS is a Norwegian biomarine company founded on competence on ecologically sustainable harvesting of Calanus finmarchicus and on scientific and technological expertise related to development, manufacture and use of health- and nutrition products. Despite its dominating role in the marin...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

RBGRUNPRIM-M-Res.bas.grunnbev.prim.- marin

Grunnbevilgning Nofima AS

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Awarded: NOK 1.1 bill.

Project Period: 2009-2022

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Toxicological evaluation of toxaphene in fish feed

Toxaphene replaced DDT as the most heavily used pesticide in many parts of the world in the early 1970s. It is distinctively bio accumulated in aquatic biota, and considered to be a persistent organic pollutant in the sense of the Stockholm convention. Al though relatively non toxic to mammals, t...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

New feeding strategies for Atlantic halibut and cod larvae to increase the output of high quality juveniles in production systems

The aim of the project is to establish new feeding strategies for halibut and cod larvae in the live-prey stage to improve growth, survival and quality in production systems. The project is based on break-through results in a pilot study where we demonstr ated that by controlling diurnal light an...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Mitigating the effects of escaped farmed salmon: combining SNPs, lipid acid profiling and statistical methods to trace escapees to origin

Recently DNA microsatellites have been successfully used to identify individual farmed escaped salmon back to cage of origin. In some cases, however, the information drawn from DNA based markers must be followed with supplementary information from other markers, such as lipid acid profiles. M...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

MANAGING TEXTURE QUALITY OF ATLANTIC SALMON THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF MOLECULAR AND MORPHOLOGIAL APPROACHES

Growing awareness related to soft flesh and gaping has led to considerable financial losses to Norwegian salmon farmers. Fillets with soft texture or gaping have an unattractive appearance, the yield is decreased as the fillets are damaged during machine filleting and slicing. Soft texture also ...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Development of innovative technologies for water improvement in recirculating aquacultural systems

In intensive land based production of smolt of Atlantic salmon, and also other fish species, carbon dioxide (CO2) becomes an increasing problem due to the limitation of high quality water. Increasing size of the farms with reduced inlet water flows and ex tensive use of oxygen supplementation has...

Awarded: NOK 0.20 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2009

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Effects of dietary composition, rearing regimes and seasonal growth patterns on muscle softness and gaping in Atlantic salmon.

The primary objective for the present knowledge-building project is to reveal the causal mechanisms behind the fillet gaping and muscle softness, observed in Atlantic salmon. We will run experimental feeding trials, where the outcomes of the previous obje ctive will be combined with the state-of-...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Effect of origin logos on sales, purchase intentions, and price perceptions of consumer exports

Earler research shows that information on product origin can influence product evaluation and consumer behavior. Many countries try to use origin in generic marketing campaigns for selected product categories, e.g. "Norwegian Seafood". Some studies show t hat such campaigns can influence demand i...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Food consumption: Changing preferences or stable habits?

Increase in food-related diseases, also in Norway, emphasizes the importance of exploring how food choices are made and which factors influence them. This project aims to explore and assess the importance of habit as a determinant in food consumption, in addition to the traditional preference- an...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Fish welfare assessment through brain function: Impacts of environmental stress on brain plasticity and behaviour

Developing reliable measures of fish welfare is a priority within Norway and the EU. Although fish welfare definitions vary, a key aim is to provide environments that minimize stressors that impact health and the animal?s mental function. In mammals, prol onged stress can affect brain function to...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

New tools for online overall assessment of rearing environment, stress level, and fish welfare in Atlantic salmon cage farms

The welfare of farmed fish has received increasing attention in recent years. Fish that thrive grow faster, are less sensitive to stress and less vulnerable to disease. In this project we propose a system for overall monitoring and assessment of rearing environment and fish welfare in sea cages...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2011

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Transmission routes and infection dynamics of salmonid alphavirus (SAV)

PD is an important cause of losses in salmonid aquaculture in Norway and has become a severe threat to the economy of the industry. Little is known about how the causal agent, SAV, is dispersed within and between sites. Knowledge about this will have larg e impact on the choice of strategies for ...

Awarded: NOK 5.7 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Ecosystem Responses to Aquaculture Induced Stress (ECORAIS)

The overall goal of the project is to qualitatively and quantitatively describe ecosystem responses to aquaculture induced stress with special regards to water-flow regimes. The overall goal will be realised by the integration of 8 distinct work packages aimed at (1) analysing data from previou...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Vestland