Written by: Reidun Lilleholt Kraugerud for the CtrlAQUA Annual Report 2019 An experienced researcher will earn his Doctoral degree based on long term and new in-depth industry research. John Davidson works at the Freshwater Institute, located in West Virginia, USA. During more than twenty years as a researcher there, he has an established track record but…
Written by: Reidun Lilleholt Kraugerud for the CtrlAQUA Annual Report 2019 CtrlAQUA has welcomed two new technology suppliers as partners. While the contribution from Atlantium from Israel is to work on treating intake water with UV, the contribution from the Norwegian CreateView is machine learning and artificial intelligence for improved fish welfare. Atlantium Getting Atlantium as…
During the lifetime of a Centre for Research-Based Innovation (SFI), there is a high probability that new challenges emerge and must be resolved in order to achieve the goal. In the case of CtrlAQUA, the ambition is to make closed-containment systems for salmon up to one kilogram into off-the-shelf systems by 2023. Written by: Reidun…
Even before the results of the CtrlAQUA project about optimal production regimes appeared in any report, Grieg Seafood was implementing the knowledge at its RAS facilities in Canada. Written by: Reidun Lilleholt Kraugerud for the CtrlAQUA Annual Report 2019 ”This knowledge from the CtrlAQUA project concerns which light regimes and water qualities provide the best…
The CtrlAQUA annual report for 2019 is now released, presenting an update on the latest development in research and innovation within closed containment aquaculture. CtrlAQUA Annual Report 2019 “What stands out in 2019, is that we implemented three new focus areas in our research plan. These areas are challenges that have…
It is well known that smolt grow faster in recirculation systems when the current increases. CtrlAQUA researchers have now discovered that it is primarily the muscles, rather than the other organs, which grow when salmon swim in a strong current. This is a positive thing. At the same time they believe that there is reason…
How can we ensure decent swimming conditions and even distribution of oxygen and feed in the massive tanks used for onshore salmon farming? Written by Wilhelm Solheim, Nofima. In land-based fish farming, the fish is kept in onshore tanks rather than in pens or closed-containment systems at sea. At the CtrlAQUA research centre, Khurram Shahzad…
We have made a few fact sheets about the research and more are in progress. A CtrlAQUA fact sheet is basically a scientific publication from one of our many projects, summed up on two pages. They are designed to make the reader able to quickly consider if the research is relevant for their own production.…
NTNU student Ingrid Naterstad Haugen at CtrlAQUA has blogged about an instrument measuring iron and copper content, that she is testing in brackish water in closed fish farms. It’s a good read. Enjoy! In Norwegian only: https://www.ntnutechzone.no/2019/06/overvaking-av-vannkvalitet-viktig-for-glad-laks/
Closed-containment onshore fish farming systems are being heralded as the answer for farmed salmon, but we need to proceed cautiously – and ensure that fish welfare and health remains a key aspect of Developments. By Asa Maria Espmark, Senior Researcher and Director at CtrlAQUA SFI, which is a centre for research-driven innovation on closed-containment aquaculture…
