RASEXPO - Early life programming and conditioning in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) for safeguarding Atlantic salmon health and welfare

The project

RASEXPO aims to optimize RAS environment to safeguard the health and welfare of A. salmon during early life stages and later in the sea phase of the production. This will be done by conditioning using commercially relevant temperatures during early developmental stages of A. salmon in RAS inducing embryonic programming which in turn affects the development, health, and welfare of salmon. We will show how conditioning of post-smolts in RAS can help prepare them to better tackle transfer to seawater and the multifactorial stressors in the new environment. We will test salmons ability to handle stress and will develop toolbox for monitoring of welfare during production of early life stages.

Partners
Technical University of Denmark
University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (lead)
Nofima AS
Lerøy Seafood AS
Grieg Seafood Finnmark AS

Funding
The project is funded by The Research Council of Norway.

Link to project's webpage at DTU:

https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/projects/early-life-programming-and-conditioning-in-recirculating-aquacult/