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Open sharing of both scientific articles and their source data sets is one way to increase the impact of the scientific research and development work. To facilitate open access publishing, the European Commission has launched a cost-free publishing platform called Open Research Europe. Based on the Open Research Europe website, it ‘will provide all Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe beneficiaries and their researchers with an easy, high quality peer-reviewed venue …

Scientists from INRAE (Geneviève Corraze, Sandrine Skiba, Frédéric Terrier & Marc Vandeputte) have been part of the group developing brand new feed for rainbow trout. The aim is to be able to bring a locally produced, more sustainable option to the market. What is the current state of feed ingredients for rainbow trout? Historically, fish meal and fish oil have been major ingredients in rainbow trout feeds. Limited availability of …

A qualitative study through consumers’ focus groups was performed in Finland, France and Spain to study perception of consumers about farmed fish. Consumption habits, information they receive on fish farming, and their needs for receiving explicit information about aquaculture were assessed. The study also tested the reactions of consumers after receiving a set of basic information, in eight slides, about world aquaculture and salmon farming. The study will be continued …

Following Italian Government provisions, since 1 March, University of Insubria has imposed very strict measures to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. These measures are affecting our research activities, including AquaIMPACT project. Shutting the lab down came as a bit of a shock, our core RNA-sequencing research facility rejected all new samples, reagent orders were cancelled, travels  for fish sampling abroad were banned, and everyone started working from home. …

Wageningen University (WU) is a research and education institution in the domain of ‘healthy food and living conditions’ with a mission to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life. Wageningen University & Research, Animal Breeding & Genomics (ABG) provides education and generates knowledge on the role and sustainable use of genetic variation in animals. The group combines expertise in quantitative and molecular genetics related to the …

Dorset was established in 1984, when they started to produce pig feeding systems. Dorset Identification (Dorset ID) is one of the three branches in Dorset, and it has been involved in electronic identification systems since 1989. Dorset is developing decoders and antennas for radio frequency identification (RFID) systems for various applications in industrial applications and for animal behavior studies with a team that consists of both hardware and software engineers. …

AquaIMPACT researchers are working on methods to select fish automatically, quickly and accurately. The shape and colour characteristics of farmed fish must be assessed. This allows the breeder to decide which fish will be used for further breeding. This time consuming measurement is now done by hand. The use of machine vision techniques has many advantages. With vision techniques a higher number of samples and more variables can be measured …

In aquaculture, as in other sectors of animal farming, improving the efficiency through genetics and nutrition has been very effective to improve sustainability. These two focus areas of AquaIMPACT lead to the recording of many measurements on many fish, at many timepoints and locations. Recording of something simple such as body weight is not trivial when animals are swimming and recording is frequent, let alone something more sophisticated, such as …

There are many things happening in European aquaculture at the moment. Hear what top researchers are discussing about the developments and research in aquaculture! The podcast was recorded by the European Aquaculture Society in October 2019. Listen to the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ebVOp5lOl8  In recent years, advancements in enabling technologies have lead to completely novel innovations that are now being implemented within the aquaculture industry. In this podcast, Tamás Bardócz (AquaBioTech Group, …

Gut microbiota is essential for a healthy fish. It can be influenced by genetic background of the fish, novel feed ingredients, and it can be stimulated by feed additives. But how can we quantify the composition of gut microbiota community in fish? Gut microbiota is elemental for fish health The composition of fish gut microbiota is of great importance for the host’s physiology, immunity and the use of feed. A …