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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Climate Change and the Impacts on Farming of Salmon in the Coastal Areas of Norway

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektnummer:

184645

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Prosjektperiode:

2008 - 2012

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Global warming is expected to affect the ecosystem in the Northeast Atlantic. The objective of the project is to analyze the potential economic and organizational effect changes in sea temperature may have on the Norwegian salmon farming industry. The pri mal R&D challenge is to model the causal link between temperature change via the growth and the mortality rate function for farmed fish and assess the economic effect. The project is important both mothodologically and practically. An explicitely integrat ion of the oscillating monthly temperature into the growth and mortality rate function has not been done before in the aquaculture literature. The model provides us with a tool for doing scenario and risk analyses which measure how changes in climate can affect the salmon farming industry along the coast of Norway (how the effects are distributed geographically, for example between southernmost and northernmost coastal areas). The project will also analyse the how global warming will affect the production in other salmon farming countries and the economic implication for the Norwegian industry. The results of the project are valueable for, respectively the industry, for the Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affaires and for the Directorate of Fisheries, w ith regard to planning for future allocation of sea areas and the need for adaptation to a dynamic changing environment. The analysis will in general be a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate about climate change and the socio-economic impacts. The project is also also based on interdiciplinary cooperation between Bjerknes Centre for Climate Reseach (BCCR) and Institute for Marine Reseach (IMR).

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NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge