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HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Francisella philomiragia subsp. noatunensis infection in farmed cod (Gadus morhua): Diagnosis, characterisation, and environmental studies

Farming of marine fish species in Norway is currently going through what may be described as a boom period. A combination of technological innovation in the field of larval production, combined with regulated wild-fisheries and concurrent favourable marke t prices, have made farming of marine spe...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

MARINFORSKHAV-Marine ressurser og miljø - havmiljø

SEAPOP

SEAPOP er et nasjonalt program som styrker og samordner oppbyggingen av kunnskap om sjøfugl i norske farvann: Bestandene kartlegges i et rullerende system, og deres utvikling og demografi overvåkes på et nettverk av lokaliteter. Parallelt med dette utføres studier som belyser sjøfuglenes økologis...

Awarded: NOK 64.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2024

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

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

Bilateral collaboration to make aquaculture structures more escape safe by utilizing full-scale testing facilities

The proposed project is for funding to arrange a workshop where a groupe of researchers from Nortway and the US meet to discuss ideas for a larger bilateral research program on escape related issues in the aquaculture industry worldwide, with special emph asis on problem related to a move towards...

Awarded: NOK 0.25 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Socio-economic effects of fisheries-induced evolution

There is a pressing need to advance evolutionarily enlightened fisheries management because ignorance of harvest-induced adaptive change could have large, negative, and practically irreversible effects on ecology, economy, and society. Marine ecosystems a re increasingly dominated by human interv...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Sediment remediation through activated carbon amendment: Long-term monitoring of a field pilot in Trondheim Harbour

HavKyst delprogram II This project is a follow-up of an NFR-financed Strategic Institute Program at NGI that will terminate at the end of 2007 (2004-2007). In the context of this project, activated carbon amendment has been applied (May 2007) as a novel remediation technique in a pilot project i...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Cardiomyopathy syndrome: A multi-task approach to reduce losses and improve knowledge

Cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) is a severe cardiac disease in farmed Atlantic salmon. The disease has been diagnosed in Norway since mid 80s. CMS causes significant losses for the industry in the form of mortality at seawater sites and in connection with transport to the slaughter houses. As CM...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Mucosal Immune System of Atlantic Cod - Creating a Knowledge Base

Diseases among farmed organisms are a major threat to aquaculture operations. In spite of technological advances, problems emerge when diseases of unknown etiology appear or when attempting to farm a new species. The developing cod farming industry too wo uld encounter diseases as the activities ...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improving food safety in the domestic environment by risk analysis of consumer food handling and evaluation of risk-reducing measures(188384

Food contamination creates a significant social and economic burden on communities and their health systems. In 2005, about 30% of reported food borne outbreaks in Norway originated to food consumed at home. Food producers or retailers are often pointed o ut as responsible in food associated outb...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

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

During the last decade, industry, research and funding rganisations have invested considerably into the development of molecular genetic technologies and resources with the expectation that information at the DNA level will lead to faster genetic gain tha n using phenotypic data alone. But as lon...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Innlandet

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

The Spanish salt fish market and opportunities for the Norwegians

The objective of this project is to investigate the restructuring of the Spanish salt fish market and the adaptation of the Norwegian salt fish producers to this market. While exports of salt fish to Spain from other countries have grown considerably the Norwegians have lost market share the last...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Arsenolipids in fish oil, fish feed, fish and other seafood

Arsenic exists in many different chemical forms in the marine environment, of which the water-soluble arsenicals are well studied. The toxicity of arsenic compounds depends on their chemical form, with inorganic arsenic being the most toxic. Knowledge reg arding arsenolipids (lipid soluble arseni...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Vestland

KLIMAFORSK-Stort program klima

ArcAct - Unlocking the Arctic ocean: The climate impact of increased shipping and petroleum activities

Petroleum and shipping activities at higher latitudes have increased considerably over recent years, and a significant further increase is expected. Melting of sea ice will open opportunities for new shipping routes and lengthen the navigation season of e xisting routes, as well as open new areas...

Awarded: NOK 9.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Oslo

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

The role of novel interferons in antiviral immunity and DNA vaccine mechanism in Atlantic salmon

To develop more efficient vaccines and other methods to fight viral diseases of Atlantic salmon there is a need for a better understanding of antiviral immune mechanisms in this species. Interferons (IFNs) play a crucial role in innate immune responses ag ainst virus infections in mammals whereby...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Towards selective breeding of the great scallop

The potential for aquaculture of the great scallop (Pecten maximus) is great due to increased fishing pressure on wild stocks and the consistent high value of the species. Research work in Europe has concentrated on improving the larval rearing techniques in the hatchery and for on-growing. In t...

Awarded: NOK 1.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2015

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Hvordan hindre spredning av genetisk materiale i torskeoppdrett

Dette er et arrangement organisert som en workshop med aktuelle foredragsholdere til de ulike temene. Det skal være en paneldebatt på slutten av møtet. All relevant FOU skal sammenstilles i en rapport som skal skrives i etterkant av møtet

Awarded: NOK 39,999

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

CarboSeason - Calibrating the carbon climate feedback in models through the observed seasonal cycle

The positive global carbon cycle climate feedback to anticipated human induced climate change is of 1st order importance (IPCC AR4, 2007). The present spread in model predictions of this feedback is of the same order of magnitude as CO2 emission reduction s which are currently under discussion by...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Platform for Viral Aquamedicine

This project gathers Norwegian expertise on both viral and host factors affecting viral disease progression. We focus on infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) and infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV), both representing major disease problems in No rwegian aquaculture, as well as represent...

Awarded: NOK 16.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Resistance towards pyrethroids and emamectin in sea lice

Ectoparasitic copepods represents a critical economical and health related threat to the salmonid aquaculture industry, as well as to wild salmonids. The primary method of control is delousing infected fish with pyrethroids and avermectins. Resistance tow ards chemotherapeutants has been demonstr...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

AMPERA - Toxicity profiling of the major EU transported HNS and oil types (TOXPROF) - ERA - NET

The Oslo and Paris (OSPAR) Commission in 2006 requested that ICES, through the Working Group on the Biological Effects of Contaminants (WGBEC), consider and assess the long term impact of oil spills on marine and coastal life as requested from OSPAR and p rovide a guidance document on the use of ...

Awarded: NOK 1.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

AMPERA- IMPLEMENTATION OF RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES FOR OIL AND CHEMICAL SPILLS THE EUROPEAN MARINE ENVIRONMENT (RAMOCS) - ERA - NET

Objectives. This proposal establishes a multidisciplinary cooperation between leading European research groups of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), Norwegian Institute of Water Research (NIVA), V igo University (VU) and the Centro Interd...

Awarded: NOK 1.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

VANN: Management of wild Atlantic salmon and escaped farmed salmon: Economic drivers, impacts and conflicts. (Other rel. subject: Samfunn)

Escaped farmed salmon has a number of well-known negative biological effects on the wild Atlantic salmon stock (Salmo salar), but also some potential positive effects as it may increase the salmon stock available for both marine and recreational fishing. The aim of this project is to analyse such...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Role of marine food to fight metabolic syndrome: evaluating the benefits and risks

Although marine food has long been known to have health properties, its roles and impacts on insulin sensitivity and metabolic diseases (e.g. type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, coronary heart diseases etc.) remain still unclear and worldwide debated. Beside its potential health effects, rec...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Modeling benthic consumption, advection, and carbon subsidies in the Barents Sea

Benthic communities play important roles in the processing of organic carbon on Arctic shelves. These roles affect nutrient availability for phytoplankton; food supply for benthic-feeding fish, seabirds, and mammals; and long-term storage of carbon in sed iments. The dynamic nature and pronounced...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Impact of water-based drilling mud in the Barents Sea: a study using the epibenthic coral species Lophelia pertusa

The search for exploitable reserves of fossil fuels has now reached the Arctic regions and this will be accompanied by drilling operations. Current legislation by SFT strictly limits drilling discharges to that from the top hole sections in the Barents Se a. Discharges to the sea will be limited ...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Rogaland

HAVKYST-Havet og kysten

Assessing the marine fish diversity of Jan Mayen and adjacent waters towards the 2010 Norwegian Red List

The recent version of the Norwegian Red List was published in 2006. Jan Mayen and its adjacent waters is the only Norwegian Territory in the Northern Hemisphere which is not included. An update of the Norwegian Red List is due in 2010, with the aim to inc lude also the area around Jan Mayen. Lit...

Awarded: NOK 0.32 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2009

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Studies of salmon phagocytic cells - key cells in cellular immune responses.

We propose to investigate, using functional genomics, the relationship between well-known immunostimulants, activation and function of salmon phagocytic cells. The new input to fish immunology is the use of isolated specific cell populations, especially n eutrophils, a salmonid cell line and phag...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Improved disease resistance of Indian tiger shrimp and rohu carp using advanced molecular methods and streamlining use of genetic resources

White spot syndrome virus and Aeromonas hydrophila are diseases that have a major impact on shrimp and carp production respectively in India. By improving the disease resistance of aquaculture stock, India could reduce the cost of production, positively a ffect both the local environment and huma...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUKS-Havbruk - en næring i vekst

Optimal smolt production and post smolt performance in the High North - Seawater intermixing, low temperatures and intensive rearing -

This project proposal intends to investigate various aspects of production strategies of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) smolt in Northern-Norway that can make this region self-sufficient with smolts, and contribute to improved survival, growth, health, and low risk of winter ulcer outbreaks in ...

Awarded: NOK 7.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIPHINIFES-SIP ved HI

Ecological Processes and Impacts Governing the Resilience and Alternations in the Porsangerfjord and the Hardangerfjord (EPIGRAPH)

The Porsangerfjord: The coastal cod population in the Porsangerfjord has been at a low level over the recent two decades and low recruitment has hampered recovery. The kelp forests, anticipated to be important nursery grounds for juvenile cod, has been er adicated over the recent three decades du...

Awarded: NOK 15.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Vestland

VRI-Virkemidler for regional innovasjon

Innovasjon gjennom samhandling. En komparativ studie av klyngene i VRI Nordland

Prosjektet er utformet som følgeforskning av aktiviteten skissert i VRI Nordland. Gjennom å studere VRI-prosessene i de tre næringsklyngene, utvikles kunnskap relevant for hver av klyngene og for framtidig utvikling av nye næringsklynger med FoU og innov asjon som fokus. Designet vil være kompar...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

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