Game

Reindeer

Fish

Aquaculture

Economics and society


	Natural resources		Food production		Aquaculture Forum

Game-, Reindeer- and AquaFood Research Program – GRAF :


»	Consumer needs and expectations in the global markets

»	Healthy, tasty, and high-quality food products

»	Diverse and sustainable food production

»	Changes in livelihoods and business sector competitiveness


»	Projects
	•	Developing Reindeer husbandry and Reindeer meat market
	•	Markets for products of captive fisheries
	•	BENEFISH – the economic impact of the welfare of fish in European fish farming
	•	Development of fish product quality research
	•	Effects of live-chilling on product quality
	•	Regulating the sexual maturity of rainbow trout in food fish production
	•	Improving fish quality
	•	The quality of European whitefish in the supply chain
	•	Electric stunning of vendace
	•	Action plan for sustainable aquaculture in Åland
	•	Effects of location guidance on the fish farming economy
	•	Environmental investment in fish farming
	•	Diversifying aquaculture
	•	Research on the selective breeding of whitefish
	•	Research on production biology
	•	New wave
	•	Software for assessing the profitability of fish farming
	•	Economic success factors of the reindeer husbandry
	•	Fish Consumption and the Catering Sector
	•	Utilization of less-valuable fish material in food, feed and bioenergy

Research on production biology

New technological applications for feeding fish and the responses of fish to changes in the composition of food and feeding methods are studied.

The goal of the project

The goal is to optimize production to best meet the local conditions or new fish farming practices. Small research projects related to the production biology and development of research methods are carried out.

Results

For example, adaptive feeding technology (Akvasmart) can improve the feed conversion rate in rainbow trout farming. The investment is considered to be profitable if the production of a farming unit is more than 30 tons.

Scientist in charge of project

Kari Ruohonen
Turku Game and Fisheries Research
Itäinen Pitkäkatu 3 FI-20520 Turku, Finland
Phone +35820 575 1681
e-mail: firstname.lastname@rktl.fi

Other research staff: Markku Vaajala, Olli Norrdahl, Jari Riihimäki, Susanna Airaksinen

Cooperation: University of Murcia (Spain)

Duration: 2002–

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