Health & Welfare
Norway’s largest cod farmer uses light to achieve optimal fish health, growth
With its light-management regime, cod farmer Ode seeks to improve fish welfare, quality and economic outcomes by delaying sexual maturation.
Responsibility
Ocean noise: How the changing sea soundscape can stress fish
Ocean noise from human activity can change fish behavior like feeding, but new technologies and techniques can minimize the stress.
Fisheries
DNA testing identifies juvenile coastal cod in Sweden thought to be extinct
Using DNA testing, a new study has found that there is still a cod population that spends all its life off the west coast of Sweden.
Health & Welfare
Scientists develop genomic selection tool to boost farmed cod production
Scientists have developed a genomic selection tool that can lift cod breeding from family to individual selection, increasing genetic gain.
Responsibility
Coastal fisheries management and novel modeling
Coastal fisheries management that includes a spatially relevant set of abiotic and biotic factors is likely to improve sustainable fisheries programs.
Responsibility
Norwegian researchers addressing climate change-related stress
Nofima is developing a methodology to help aquaculture understand climate-change-related stress for species like cod, salmon and lumpfish.
Intelligence
Groundfish aquaculture in Norway
Norway’s groundfish-farming industry can deliver premium-quality products, but can it achieve economic sustainability, as well? Salmon feeding, quality and disease technology can not be fully transferred to cod.
Intelligence
Potential for cod culture in the Pacific Northwest
Research in Japan and Korea over the past decade or two has resulted in Pacific cod production in Japan and strong interest in Korea.