Session B7: COST Action FA 1304: Swimming of Fish and Implications for Migration and Aquaculture (FITFISH)
Location
Groningen, The Netherlands
Event Website
http://fishpassage.umass.edu/
Start Date
24-6-2015 10:50 AM
End Date
24-6-2015 11:05 AM
Description
Abstract:
The study of swimming of fish is essential for our understanding of the interplay between migration, growth and reproduction in wild fish but also has considerable interest for fish in aquaculture. The main objective of the COST Action FITFISH is to develop a research network in which fish swimming in the wild and in aquaculture is studied for the first time under a multidisciplinary perspective. FITFISH will provide the ground for technological breakthroughs (e.g. more accurate monitoring of migrant fish; design of exercise-“friendly” fish farming facilities), for establishing swimming as an essential factor determining welfare and for demonstrating that swimming can benefit quality production. FITFISH will add value to independent, nationally funded research activities by providing the means to exchange information, promote industrial activities and influence policies at a European level in a new common forum. Activities in FITFISH also include the training and exchange of early stage researchers in the area. For more information: www.fitfish.eu.
Session B7: COST Action FA 1304: Swimming of Fish and Implications for Migration and Aquaculture (FITFISH)
Groningen, The Netherlands
Abstract:
The study of swimming of fish is essential for our understanding of the interplay between migration, growth and reproduction in wild fish but also has considerable interest for fish in aquaculture. The main objective of the COST Action FITFISH is to develop a research network in which fish swimming in the wild and in aquaculture is studied for the first time under a multidisciplinary perspective. FITFISH will provide the ground for technological breakthroughs (e.g. more accurate monitoring of migrant fish; design of exercise-“friendly” fish farming facilities), for establishing swimming as an essential factor determining welfare and for demonstrating that swimming can benefit quality production. FITFISH will add value to independent, nationally funded research activities by providing the means to exchange information, promote industrial activities and influence policies at a European level in a new common forum. Activities in FITFISH also include the training and exchange of early stage researchers in the area. For more information: www.fitfish.eu.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fishpassage_conference/2015/June24/78
Comments
Presenting Author: Dr. Ir. Arjan P. Palstra is a physiologist with a passion for fish and expertise on exercise physiology, biology of reproduction and the use of molecular tools for fish research. His research area is interdisciplinary, in-between aquaculture and the natural environment, inbetween fundamental and applied science, in-between IMARES and Wageningen University.