Teaching cod good eating habits
Many hours patiently training cod produces results. Scientist Frank Kristiansen has taught wild-caught cod that dry feed is good food - and these cod...
Millions for health research
"This will enable us to find relationships between seafood and health," says Director of Research Even Stenberg. Sparebank 1 Nord-Norge donated NOK 3 million...
Biomarkers can monitor our health condition
What is a biomarker and what do scientists use them for? Biomarkers can tell us more about how nutrients, for instance seafood, affect our...
Collaboration on health effects of seafood consumption
The first cardiovascular health study in China investigating the effect of seafood consumption on health parameters, shows a 20% decrease in disease markers in...
Farmed atlantic cod tolerates more plant proteins
New studies of cod genes show that as much as 75% of marine proteins can be replaced by plant proteins in feed for farmed...
Feed provides salmon juveniles with sufficient vitamin K
Factors such as nutrition, water temperature and rapid growth play a key role in bone development of Atlantic salmon.
Novel research shows that the naturally...
Analysis of drug residues and undesirable substances in farmed fish
Norway: NIFES has analysed the content of drug residues and other undesirable substances in farmed fish. No residues of illegal drugs were found in...
Interactions between environmental pollutants
In nature, environmental pollutants usually exist in mixtures, and not individually. Recent research shows that the toxicity of the environmental pollutants non-dioxin-like PCB and...
Chips for Salmon
UK: The Institute of Aquaculture in Stirling is leading research to develop a user friendly genetic tool to monitor the health and performance of...
Virus causing cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) of Atlantic salmon identified
Norway: Pharmaq and the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science have identified the Pharmaq and the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science have identified the virus...
Undesirable substances and drug residues in farmed fish
NIFES has been monitoring the content of undesirable substances in Norwegian farmed fish since 1994. The status of samples collected in the course of...
Transfer of knowledge regarding fish farming from NIFES to Mauritius
Norway: The tropical island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean aims at increasing its fish farming activities. The National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood...
Mercury less toxic together with selenium
Seafood is naturally rich in selenium, but it may also contain the environmental pollutant methylmercury. New research indicates that methylmercury is less toxic to...
Improving feeds for marine fish larvae
To successfully develop commercial diets for marine fish larvae, knowledge about how various constituents of the feed e.g. smell and taste will affect their...
