The major priority is to produce models that can be used as tools by those responsible for the conservation and management of freshwater fisheries of economic importance. The target species in this project are Atlantic salmon, Arctic char, brown trout (including sea trout) and European perch.
The project generates new technologies for the assessing the growth performance of economically important species on the wild as well as predicting the effects on the fish production of environmental change. The latter can be beneficial as well as harmful and natural (e.g. climate fluctuations) as well as the result of human activities (e.g. river regulation, reservoir construction, water abstraction, thermal discharge, deforestation, afforestation, changes in land use as a result of the CAP.)
The results are regarded as in the public domain and are therefore being published in international journals subject to peer review.
The new technologies developed in this project will also be applicable to aquaculture and should indicate the optimum thermal condition and food rations for rapid growth and for maximum conservation efficiency of food to growth. Finally, the models developed in this study are generic and therefore could be adapted for some marine fish species.