Scientific papers & publications

The rapid development of blue economy and human use of offshore space triggered the concept of co-location of marine activities and is causing diverse local pressures on the environment. These pressures add to, and interact with, global challenges...

Continuous data on the condition of fish is necessary to monitor, control and document biological processes in fish farms in real-time, yet acquiring it from a large net-pen environment is challenging. Tools to rapidly detect change in the entire net...

This review paper highlights the significance of seaweed farming in global food and nutritional security, mitigation and adaptation to global climate change, and women empowerment within a single frame. This review paper also outlined the major...

Since the establishment of a Global Action Plan (GAP) on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) (68th World Health Assembly, Geneva, Switzerland, 2015), most members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) have developed and implemented a National Action Plan...

Mortality represents a major challenge in farming of salmon in open sea cages. Production takes place in large cages with up to 200,000 fish and offers no other treatment of individual fish than euthanasia of moribund fish. Improvements need to take...

There have been a number of indications of strong negative impacts of Covid-19 and the preventive measures associated with the pandemic for all food sectors. However, there is increasing evidence that the picture is quite nuanced where the Covid...

After more than four decades of production in the European Union, turbot (Psetta maxima) farming is a mature sector with a moderate growth trend (2.74% in 2020). Although up to seven countries started the production of this species, there are only...

In this paper, it is presented a suggestion for a sustainability assessment framework using the genome editing of salmon as a case study. The salmon farming industry is facing several challenges hindering sustainable production. Genome editing has...

Aquaculture is one of the largest, and fastest growing industries in Norway. Recently, the industry has experienced significant development in the daily operations acquiring new technologies and systems that capture data and automate the different...

Aquaculture has been one of the fastest-growing food production systems sectors for over three decades. With its growth, the demand for alternative, cheaper and high-quality feed ingredients is also increasing. In this review, the current trends in...