IMPAQ - IMProvement of AQuaculture high quality fish fry production:
How to increase the reliability of copepods as live prey in Danish fish farms?
PROJECT IS COMPLETED
Project period: 01 January 2011 - 31 December 2015
This multi-diciplinary research project aims at increasing the sustainability of the Danish small scale aquaculture farms producing high-added value fish.
This multi-diciplinary research project aims at increasing the sustainability of the Danish small scale aquaculture farms producing high-added value fish. We propose to improve the already leading know-how on live-feed production that Denmark is reputed for by establishing collaboration on copepod cultivation between research institutions and private enterprises (SMEs). Solving challenges and using a research based platform in the aquaculture fish fry production sector will position Danish aquaculture in the league of top performers. This project will offer: a potential access to new cultured high priced fish species, fish of better quality, an improved fish wellness using natural diet, all for the benefit of Danish interests. Copepods are an alternative or supplementary food to the classical live feed organisms rotifers and Artemia in marine fish hatcheries. Their use is known to improve survival, growth, and development of fish larvae. Copepods are exploited successfully in extensive systems, but to our knowledge only in Scandinavia and in Taiwan. In Denmark between 500,000 and 1,000,000 fry of turbot are produced every year on copepods solely. The present consortium will provide SME’s with technical and genetic improvements of their present or future copepod cultures, an understanding and conversion of co-existing organisms that have been considered as nuisance in copepod cultures into beneficial food components, a research based challenge of the automatised cultures limitations due to copepod density effects, tests of automatised copepod systems in fish feeding trials, and finally a proper economic assessment of the use of copepods as live prey in aquaculture.
Max Nielsen
IFRO coordinator
Name | Title | Phone | |
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Max Nielsen | Associate Professor | +4535336894 |
The project was funded by:
IMPAQ has received funding from The Danish Council for Strategic Research: Programme Commission on Health, Food and Welfare (Det Strategiske Forskningsråd: Programkomiteen for Sundhed, Fødevarer og Velfærd)
Amount: DKK 2.0 mill.