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The Farm to Fork Strategy aims to reduce the environmental and climate impact of animal production, and to support the ongoing transition towards more sustainable livestock farming. Therefore, the European Commission will facilitate the placing on the market of sustainable and innovative feed additives. EATiP acknowledges the limitations on specific resource supplies for compound feeds. In addition to contributing to the sustainability of the sector, it is critical that alternative feed...

On 29 September 2020 the final AQUAEXCEL2020 consortium meeting took place. The meeting had been scheduled to take place in Cork, Ireland however unfortunately due to Covid-19 the meeting took place virtually. The meeting gave partners the opportunity to discuss the successes of each work package. This 5 year project has seen huge successes. A virtual laboratory has been developed and is open for use. It can simulate experiments with fish and receive data on expected growth and water quality...

The AQUAEXCEL2020 Digital Fish Repository is now open for use. This repository contains data and metadata on isogenic, divergent lines or more generally well characterized fish lines (carp, sea bass, trout, and Atlantic salmon). This data comes from several sources: i) already published ii) collected through several initiatives (e.g., sequencing projects) iii) originated from WP7 and as a result of TNA. Examples of specific data included are: 1) from the set of INRA trout isogenic lines...

Sea cage used to trial a distributed sensor network. Photo by Magnus Oshaug Pedersen Another interesting TNA project carried out in AQUAEXCEL2020 focused on “Testing a Distributed Sensor Network for Measuring Flow Field in a Sea Cage”, and was carried out by Maarja Kruusmaa, in the SINTEF ACE facilities (Norway). Nowadays, sea cages are used to grow a variety of fish in the open sea. In order to keep the fish healthy, minimum flows through the cage must be met to keep the cage oxidised and clean...