PROJECT LEADER
AFFILIATION
START DATE
Jan 2024
END DATE
Jan 2025
DURATION
12 months
PROJECT IN BRIEF
The Blue Economy CRC has partnered with New Zealand King Salmon (NZKS), Cawthron, Biomar, Sanford, and the New Zealand Government to conduct the most comprehensive and commercially relevant study of smoltification in king salmon, while also exploring the production parameters of king salmon smolt in RAS (recirculating aquaculture systems).
This project explored king salmon performance, health and welfare in a commercial RAS environment, while also assessing their smoltification status. This enabled a determination of valid measures of smoltification in this species, in addition to assessing various means of inducing smoltification in king salmon. This project has now been successfully completed and has dramatically expanded our understanding of smoltification in this species, and also validated king salmon’s suitability to rearing in a commercial RAS environment.
The learnings from this project have direct commercial application to NZKS and the wider king salmon farming industry. The outcomes from this project have helped inform future investment by NZKS while also providing additional research priorities and findings which are all aimed at allowing the king salmon industry to successfully expand offshore and grow sustainably.
The Blue Economy CRC has partnered with New Zealand King Salmon (NZKS), Cawthron, Biomar, Sanford, and the New Zealand Government to conduct the most comprehensive and commercially relevant study of smoltification in king salmon, while also exploring the production parameters of king salmon smolt in RAS (recirculating aquaculture systems).
This project explored king salmon performance, health and welfare in a commercial RAS environment, while also assessing their smoltification status. This enabled a determination of valid measures of smoltification in this species, in addition to assessing various means of inducing smoltification in king salmon. This project has now been successfully completed and has dramatically expanded our understanding of smoltification in this species, and also validated king salmon’s suitability to rearing in a commercial RAS environment.
The learnings from this project have direct commercial application to NZKS and the wider king salmon farming industry. The outcomes from this project have helped inform future investment by NZKS while also providing additional research priorities and findings which are all aimed at allowing the king salmon industry to successfully expand offshore and grow sustainably.
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