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Institute for Environmental Protection and Research Rome, Italy

Giovanna Marino

COFASP has 27 partners from 17 European countries, started in February 2013 Strengthening cooperation and synergies in European research on sustainable exploitation of marine resources in the seafood chains

http://www.cofasp.eu/

Include case studies as a means to promote the emergence of joint research programs in fisheries, aquaculture and seafood science between European countries COFASP objectives

• to step up the cooperation and

coordination of research activities carried out at national or regional level in the Member and Associated states

• by designing complementary

national and regional research programmes and sharing information/data systems

Objectives and outputs

• identify and prioritise the key issues and challenges that

are impacting aquaculture development in Northern and Southern Europe

• propose solutions that can be addressed by research
• generate a greater understanding among funding

partners of the needs and challenges in the aquaculture sector

between the regions

• foster North/South R&I co-operation

Industry leaders from European companies representing  30-35% of the total production of the Mediterranean sea bass and sea bream  close to 60% of the total Norwegian and more than 30 % of the global Atlantic salmon production 30 participants 10 Countries

Give voice to aquaculture producers

Pan-European/regional representation from FAO, EATiP and FEAP

Atlantic salmon and Sea bass/Sea bream in Europe

SEA BASS 2014 SEA BREAM 2014 ATLANTIC SALMON 2014

Methodology

Two workshops May-June 2015 (Rome and Froja)

• 1. Identification
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key challenges for Salmon aquaculture from the Northern Atlantic operators and for sea bass and sea bream aquaculture from Southern Mediterranean operators, divided in 2 groups

• 2. Short description of those challenges by group
• 3. Rounds of voting
• 4. Perception of cross interest and common interest

issues The 4 steps were repeated for the tree sessions regarding:

• Biological life cycle issues
• Technical & technological issues
• Market & communication issues

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• p 20 priorities

Priorities for salmon (blue) and sea bass/sea bream (orange) (Rome workshop)

Cross interest research priorities Regional research priorities

Froya workshop

FROM PRIORITIES TO RESEARCH CALL Social acceptance & communication of aquaculture

• Social science on public attitudes towards the aquaculture industry
• Society perception of the sector and the risks of aquaculture process,

traceability

• Positive perception need to be communicated (e.g. reduction of

pressure on wild stocks; added value of product etc.) and this needs to be fact-based

• Market analysis to target (new) market segments at national and

European levels (school, hospital, catering..)

Biomass control/estimation

Develop new technology/tools

• for a better control of production cycle
• provide the ability to identify immediately problems (periodic feed

conversion ratio, growth efficiency and performance)

• address problems on time, improving the end result, lowering of

production cost

• real time estimation of

total number of fish and size distribution with a good enough accuracy

• minimize stressful factors

imposed to the fish, better feeding, better welfare..

New growth-out technology for offshore

New technologies to ensures the day to day operations

• systems for detection of net integrity, real time remote monitoring of the

system, the environment and the fish, early warning systems

• systems for automatic feeding, non-fouling, removing of dead fish,

grading and harvesting

Monitoring of environment & fish biological indicators

to support farmers in daily decision, improve performances and demonstrate sustainability

• Innovative/reliable methods for monitoring

for fish reactions to different farming

• perations and environmental influences and

to predict grow cycle

• Knowledge about physiological markers,

gene expression and “translation” into

• perational tools that can be used on-farm
• Reliable methods for continuous automatic

environmental monitoring (i.e. oxygen,

chlorophyll, algae etc.)

Juvenile robustness and quality

• Improved methods to predict juvenile quality and

develop technology and automated system to recognize and sort out fish with deviation from target standard

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• understand and control hatchery environmental and

management stressors

• Diagnostic tools (inc. mol..) for disease

diagnostics and to improve the understanding of juvenile robustness

Selective breeding

Better networks and tools for collaborative selective

breeding programs (bass/bream breeding industry)

• Genomic sequencing and application for

important traits (growth, disease resistance, tolerance for vegetable feed ingredients)

• Sterile salmon production

Regional Priorities - Atlantic salmon Sea lice control - Establish two programs: prevention and treatment

• Methods to prevent infections
• Methods to treat occasional infections from disrupted prevention

Both methods need to be environmentally acceptable, cost-efficient and they cannot compromise fish welfare.

Low stress grading systems - Develop technology that enables

• perators to separate fish in different size groups at any time during the grow out

phase and particularly at harvest

Fish Welfare - Knowledge about comfort conditions (as water quality and

hydrodynamics) and nutritional requirements. Technology to gather the fish, to send to slaughter without handling, using automatic systems

Packaging and shelf-life - Develop more effective packaging resulting

in lower transportation cost and longer transportation/storage time Intelligent packaging for better traceability, safety and shelf-life (bacteria and temperature)

Regional Priorities – seabass/seabream

Research on feed quality - Identify cost effective sources of omega-3 and high

quality alternatives to fish meal; Develop analytical tools for quality check of feed raw ingredients, raw material quality throughout the year and from year to year

Product quality and traceability - Develop a common system for full- chain traceability of EU aquaculture products; Introduce fishing and catching date

• n fresh seafood products on the market; Develop slaughtering practices for

seabass/seabream (flesh quality, shelf-life and welfare)

Match supply with the market - Explore new products and processing

methods to open new market segments; Translation of information and data sets in market knowledge to facilitate production planning, marketing strategy

Disease control - Knowledge on interactions between nutrition, epigenetic,

environment and impact of disease on fish performance; Ensure regional availability

• f therapeutants, vaccines and anaesthetics for disease management;

Develop methods (breeding programs, vaccines…) towards healthier, disease resistance and more robust fish

detailed insight into core challenges for Atlantic salmon

industry and sea bass/sea bream industry from the point of view of aquaculture operators six common research priorities for EU aquaculture and 4+4 regional priorities for future planning and to foster North/South research and innovation cooperation CONCLUSION

27 COFASP partners and the national funding agencies will consider these priorities

• Multiannual Aquaculture Strategic National Plan
• ERA-NET calls

to facilitate exchange of knowledge and know-how and promote the emergence of joint research programs in aquaculture between European regions

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Alistair Lane, European Aquaculture Society (EAS) Giovanna Marino, Claudia Greco, (ISPRA) Kjell Emil Naas, Elin Vikane (Research Council of Norway, RCN)