Annual report 2016: An innovative year for CtrlAQUA

In its second year, scientists, farmers and technology suppliers at the CtrlAQUA Centre have researched and acquired new knowledge about farming in closed-containment aquaculture systems. Such knowledge will contribute to the Centre’s ambition to make closed systems off-the-shelf products. Choose one of the following versions: Reader friendly version Printable version If you’d like a professionally printed…

International collaboration gives better fish farming

Japanese and Norwegian researchers and students were welcomed at Lerøy Seafood’s smolt facility in Bjørsvik. Photo: Lerøy Seafood.

For Norway to be the best at closed-containment aquaculture systems (CCS) for salmon, we need knowledge from the best of the best. Norway’s researchers are now working with leading Japanese and North American researchers. Research on salmon’s needs is the key to creating sustainable production in CCS. This can reduce problems with sea lice and…