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CCMAR integrates European project to support fish - Lifecycle

 

The Centre of Marine Sciences is one of the partners of the European Project Lifecycle, which aims to improve biological knowledge on the more important fish species cultivated in Europe, as to improve their production and quality.
The project is coordinated by the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and will cost a total of 12 million, funded largely by the European Commission.

The CCMAR Group of Molecular and Comparative Endocrinology, will be part of the 14 research teams involved in the project, from 9 different European countries.
The Lifecycle began this week, on February 1st, and aims to get more knowledge about the physiology of fish, in order to reduce the impact of many of the problems involved in fish production.

The project will focus on the various stages of fish life cycle beginning with the larval stage and metamorphosis, the process of sexual differentiation, regulation of growth and puberty, the immune system and adaptation to the cultivation environment. Some of the problems related to the various stages of fish life cycle and adaptation difficulties to existing cultivation systems earn now a new hope of solution with this project.
Solving the biological issues and species life cycle, and identifying answers to more practical problems, the production will improve, in both ethical and quality terms.
Initially, will be studied species considered as the four most important in European Aquaculture, namely salmon, trout salmon, sea bass and pargo.