Disease caused by Pasteurella spp. pathogenic for fish has become increasingly widespread in recent years. A three-year project led by the Norwegian Veterinary Institute and financed by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF) will provide more knowledge of these bacteria and control of disease.
The main goal is to generate the knowledge needed to enable the development of procedures for reduction of Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV) infection in Atlantic salmon aquaculture. To achieve this, the project will characterize the resistance of PRV to disinfection, and study differences in virulence between virus isolates.
The primary objective of Quality Calf is to provide science-based recommendations for a sustainable calf production, by investigating the relationship between feeding management strategies and their effect on calf health, welfare and production.
This is an integrative project aimed at exploring and developing new methodologies and framework for risk assessment and disease burden of antimicrobial resistance for the human population where the impact of the food chain and routes of transmission are crucial elements.
The goal of the project is to remove the introduced fish species roach (Rutilus rutilus) from 7 lakes in Bymarka, Trondheim, to prevent further spread of roach to the citys water supply, lake Jonsvatnet. The eradication of roach is done using the rotenone solution CFT Legumine, and is scheduled for the period from 19 to 23 of September 2016.
A flexible pen within a modern, robotic dairy barn allowing cow-calf contact by letting mother and calf stay together during the first weeks after birth.
Natural or synthetic mutations can change the genome of organisms and lead to altered fitness properties. By combining genetics and synthetic biology, we want to weaken the PD virus and use it in studies of PD infections and to improve PD vaccines.
Fish diseases represent one of the major risks to the continued growth of the aquaculture industry. This project will develop a flexible and versatile fish vaccine platform (TarGet) where vaccines can be easily tailored to any viral disease and fish species.
