Objective
The primary objective of this project is to create a basis for the diversification of European aquaculture production into high value-added finfish species, turbot and halibut, by defining optimal rearing conditions for different populations of turbot and halibut.
The project will investigate the physiological adaptation of different turbot and halibut populations to rearing conditions (temperature and salinity), making it possible to optimize yield (in terms of higher growth and improved disease resistance) for the European flatfish aquaculture industry.
It will focus on the genotype and environment interaction by studying the interacting effect between key environmental factors (temperature, salinity) and different populations of turbot and halibut, on growth, growth efficiency, stress resistance, and immune competence. The work plan involves the maintenance of stocks of juvenile turbot and halibut derived from wild caught broodstocks across the entire European geographic range of the species under a range of different temperature and salinity regimes.
The experimental stocks will be held in a Larfe Scale Facility for marine sciences (LSF, N°: ERBFMGECT 950013) with individual partners developing and adapting methodologies in their local facilities which will be applied in the common, LSF facilities to secure standardization of the experimental conditions. Concurrent with the physiological experiments, and in order to create a basis for population discrimination of turbot and halibut, the population genetics structure of turbot and halibut throughout their range will be characterized, using microsatellite DNA and protein electrophoresis as genetic markers. To insure industrial exploitation of the results obtained in the project, the current rearing practices, ambient environmental conditions and historical growth performance of stocks will be monitored and documented in a number of selected turbot and halibut farms (SMEs). The consortium will then devise appropriate technical manipulations and production strategies aimed at to optimise performance of the turbot and halibut stocks based on the research outputs in the project. These manipulations will be monitored by the consortium so that the enhanced performance of stocks can be referenced against traditional (former) farm practices.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics DNA
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities
- natural sciences chemical sciences electrochemistry electrophoresis
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences oceanography
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Coordinator
5020 BERGEN
Norway
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