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Completed activities
Last changed: 21 March 2024
Here we gather documentation from activities that SLU Aquaculture arranged, supported or participated in. All activities aimed to develop aquaculture research and education at SLU.
National Aquaculture Conference 2024
Date: 2024-03-14--15
Organisers: Nationellt Kompetenscentrum för Vattenbruk, SLU Aquaculture, Landsbygdsnätverket, Vattenfall, Jordbruksverket, Vattenbrukscentrum Norr AB and Innovatum Science Park.
The conference is a meeting place for the Swedish aquaculture community – from farmers to researchers and producers to authorities and stakeholders.
From the programme:
- Compensatory farming
- Climate challenges for Swedish aquaculture
- Promotion and action plan for aquaculture going forward
- Increasing Swedish food fish production
- The conference consisted of presentations, networking opportunities, study visits and taste experiences.
Course in fish health, preventive health care and fish welfare
Date: 2023-11-21--23
Organisers: Nationellt Kompetenscentrum för Vattenbruk (NKfV) together with SWEMARC, SLU Aquaculture, Matfiskodlarna and SVA.
For more information about the programme and to view the presentations.
SLU Aquaculture research & networking seminar
Date: 2023-11-08
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture
A hybrid-/video conference meeting, from all SLU locations was held at the beginning of November. Several new research projects will be presented by SLU researchers and PhD students – on topics such as future fish feed, fish health, fish welfare, epigenetics in connection with breeding and farming of fish, and farming systems for sustainable aquaculture in Sweden.
Lunch webinar: Plant and fish growth in aquaponics from a food production perspective
Date: 2023-10-17
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture
Plant and fish growth in aquaponics from a food production perspective, by Samar Khalil and Yenitze Fimbres, researchers at the Department of Biosystems and Technology, SLU.
Seminar: Next-generation feed sources within aquaculture
Date: 2023-06-13
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture
The feed used in fish farms has a great impact on the environmental impact, costs and the growth of the fish. But it can also affect how the fish tastes, the nutritional content of the fish meat and how useful the fish's manure becomes for plant cultivation. Pontus Gunnarsson, Blue food PhD student at SLU, took a comprehensive approach to the feed issue in his presentation.
Course on environmental impact and benefits of aquaculture
Date: 2023-03-28--30
Organisers: SLU Aquaculture, Nationellt Kompetenscentrum för Vattenbruk, Landsbygdsnätverket, SWEMARC.
The course focused on the environmental impact and environmental benefits of aquaculture, as well as basic knowledge about legislation and different species that are cultivated and techniques that are used in Swedish aquaculture today (and expected to be used in the near future). The target group was officials at authorities or municipalities who work with aquaculture issues, including you who work with advice or supervision.
Swedish Launch of the WorldFish Project: "Sustainable Feeds for Resilient Aquatic Food Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa"
Date: 2023-03-07
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture, SLU Global together with Dr. Kartik Baruah, Swedish FASA project leader and Associate Professor at the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management at SLU.
Swedish launch of the WorldFish project financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD). SLU is an academic partner in this aquaculture project focusing on the development and scaling up of sustainable feed for resilient aquatic food systems in sub-Saharan Africa (FASA).
Networking workshop and guidance to research facilities in Älvkarleby
Date: 2022-11-8--9
Organiser: Department of Aquatic Resources and Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Environmental Studies with support from SLU Aquaculture.
The aim of the workshop was to learn more about the research infrastructure for experimental work in aquaculture and/or running water at the Fisheries Research Station in Älvkarleby, SLU. The Target group was SLU researchers and researchers from other universities.
SLU Aquaculture gathering
Date: 2022-09-12--13
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture
A network meeting to meet and get to know each other and to get an update on what’s happening within SLU aquaculture research, have the opportunity to discuss new collaborations and possible joint efforts for upcoming calls. The aim was also to talk about how to strengthen aquaculture at SLU, as well as have the opportunity to influence SLU Aquaculture's focus ahead.
Webinar: Securing sustainable access to aquatic foods
Date: 2022-06-17
Organiser: SLU Global, Department of Aquatic Resources, SLU (SLU Aqua) SLU Aquaculture, WorldFish and CGIAR.
The webinar gathered experts from SLU, WorldFish, CGIAR, international stakeholders and organisations to discuss sustainable aquatic food solutions for the future.
Seminar: Prophylaxis of infectious diseases in fish, shrimp and pigs
Date: 2022-05-24
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture and the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management
A seminar with invited guests from Ghent University in order to establish as well as stimulate further collaboration. The program was covering both aquatic and terrestrial animals with focus on immunology, in specific prophylaxis of infectious diseases.
National Aquaculture Conference 2022
Date: 2022-03-15--16
Organiser: Nationellt Kompetenscentrum för Vattenbruk, SWEMARC, SLU Aquaculture, Landsbygdsnätverket, Jordbruksverket, Innovatum Science Park, Nordic Seafarm, Ostrea Aquaculture, Marint gränsforum Skagerrak, and Svenskt vattenbruk och sjömat.
Lunch webinar: Farming of wild-caught fish
Date: 2021-11-11
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture
SLU researchers Albin Gräns and Örjan Östman will tell us about the outcome and future plans of their aquaculture projects, followed by a joint discussion and question time.
- For more information and links to their project pages.
- If you are interested to watch the recorded seminar "Farming of wild-caught fish", please contact SLU Aquaculture and we will send the file to you.
Webinar & workshop: Integrated fish and plant production
Date: 2021-10-27
Organisers: SLU Aquaculture and SLU Partnership Alnarp
This was a two-part session, first a webinar and then a workshop. There is a growing interest in combining fish and plant production, either direct in aquaponics systems or by utilizing waste from fish farms as fertilizers in plant production in fields, tunnels or greenhouses. Current knowledge within aquaponic was presented followed by a discussion about what is needed to strengthen integrated fish and plant production in Sweden.
Lunch seminar: How to ask the right research questions?
– Experience and inspiration from veterinary research at Stanford and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Date: 2021-10-01
Speaker: Øystein Evensen (VH guest professor)
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture
With research within veterinary virology, immunology, bacteriology, pathology and vaccine development, applied within aquatic medicine, this research seminar aimed to inspire, stimulate new thoughts and ideas, and discuss with you how to ask the right research questions.
- If you are interested to watch the recorded seminar "How to ask the right research questions?", please send an email to: aquaculture@slu.se and we will send the file to you.
Workshop: How can we establish fish health as a research area at SLU?
Date: 2021-05-06
Speakers: Wenche Hansen from Matfiskodlarna, Charlotte Axén from SVA, Frida Solstorm from the Swedish Board of Agriculture and Øystein Evensen from Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway and guest professor at SLU.
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture
Target group: SLU researchers and researchers from SVA.
Lunch seminar: Insects as feed for fish – findings and future perspectives
Date: 2021-03-17
Speaker: Aleksandar Vidakovic from the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management.
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture
Target group: researchers, teachers and students at SLU as well as others with interest in this topic.
During this lunch seminar where researcher Aleksandar Vidakovic presented the outcome, so far, from his research about the acceptance of black soldier fly larvae by fish and how the feed with impact growth and health as well as technical aspects of producing a feed on black soldier fly larvae.
- If you are interested to watch the recorded seminar and Aleksandars presentation/PPT, please send an email to: aquaculture@slu.se and we will send the files (in English) to you.
Sustainable from north to south - four webinars on aquaculture
The webinar series "Sustainable from the North to the South" presented different production methods, challenges and opportunities for Swedish aquaculture.
Organisers: SLU Aquaculture, Landsbygdsnätverket, SWEMARC and Nationellt Kompetenscentrum för Vattenbruk.
#1 - Aquaculture in symbiosis with the agricultural landscape
Date: 2020-09-09
Speakers: Anders Kiessling, SLU and Johan Ljungquist, Gårdsfisk.
- If you are interested to watch the recording of "Aquaculture in symbiosis with the agricultural landscape", you can contact Kansliet@landsbygdsnatverket.se (the webinar is in Swedish and the recording is not subtitled, total play time: 60 minutes, the lecture starts after 2:43 minutes).
#2 - Sustainable fish feed of the future
Date: 2020-10-14
Speakers: Markus Langeland, SLU and Friederike Ziegler, RISE.
If you are interested to watch the recording of "Sustainable fish feed of the future", you can contact Kansliet@landsbygdsnatverket.se (the webinar is in Swedish, the recording is not subtitled, total play time: 60 minutes, the lecture starts after 3:56 minutes).
#3 - Fish farming in the northern cultural landscape
Date: 2020-11-04
Speakers: Anders Kiessling, SLU and Pär Byström, Umeå University.
- If you are interested to watch the recording of "Fish farming in the northern cultural landscape", you can contact Kansliet@landsbygdsnatverket.se (in Swedish, the recording is not subtitled, total play time: 60 minutes, the lecture starts after 2:35 minutes).
#4 - Land-based RAS produces more Swedish-farmed fish
Date: 2020-11-18
Speakers: Joel Oresten, Smögenlax and Kristina Snuttan Sundell, University of Gothenburg.
- If you are interested to watch the recording of "Land-based RAS produces more Swedish-farmed fish", you can contact Kansliet@landsbygdsnatverket.se (in Swedish, the recording is not subtitled, total play time: 60 minutes, the lecture starts after 2:42 minutes).
Lunch seminar: Education and research in fish health - experiences from NMBU, Norway
Date: 2020-11-11
Speaker: Øystein Evensen
Target group: researchers, teachers and students at SLU.
Øystein Evensen presented the education program currently running at the Veterinary Faculty at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and some of the research programs at the Faculty. The presentation demonstrated how research and teaching were built to meet industry needs, and the contribution of public and private financing in this regard.
- If you are interested in Øysteins presentation/PPT, send an email to: aquaculture@slu.se and we will send the file to you.
National Aquaculture Conference
Date: 2020-03-10--11
120 participants from all over "aquaculture Sweden": entrepreneurs, innovators, authorities and researchers participated in the conference.
Aquaculture research in nutrition and breeding - half-time seminar by associate senior lecturers at VH faculty
Date: 2020-02-10
SLU Aquaculture arranged a half-time seminar where the associate senior lecturers Kartik Baruah from the Department of Animal Nutrition and Management and Christos Palaiokostas from the Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics, presented their work so far within aquaculture at SLU, and also their plans for the coming years.
Fish health conference 2019
Date: 2019-12-03
Organisers: Matfiskodlarna in collaboration with NKfV.
Course in aquaculture: "En översikt över odlingssystem och odlingsarter i Sverige – framtidsperspektiv"
Date: 2019-11-20- -22
Organisers: Nationellt Kompetenscentrum för Vattenbruk, together with SWEMARC, SLU Aquaculture, Vattenbrukscentrum Ost och Blått centrum Gotland.
Target group: entrepreneurs in aquaculture and government representatives at the municipal, regional and national level who want to gain more knowledge and expertise within the field. The content below is in Swedish.
- For more information about the course "En översikt över odlingssystem och odlingsarter i Sverige – framtidsperspektiv", and view all the presentations.
- See all lectures from the course: "En översikt över odlingssystem och odlingsarter i Sverige – framtidsperspektiv" via YouTube below:
NOTE: the recording is not subtitled.
Does sustainably farmed fish exist – and if so, can you label it?
Date: 2019-10-01
Organisers: SLU Aquaculture together with SLU ekologisk produktion och konsumtion, arranged a lunch seminar and discussion about fish farming and sustainability certifications.
- Read a summary from the seminar: Does sustainably farmed fish exist – and if so, can you label it? (including a videolink of the recording as well as the presentation slides. The content is in English and the recording is not subtitled).
Matologi 2019 "Matsvinn"
Date: 2019-08-24
SLU Aquaculture participated with Axfoundation under the theme "Food waste for insects, insects for fish - an example of circular food production".
Seminar in Almedalen 2019: Farming in water – a key to sustainable Swedish food production?
Date: 2019-07-03
Organiser: SLU Aquaculture.
- Watch the live broadcast on SLU:s Facebook channel (the content is in English and the recording is not subtitled).
- A brief summary of the seminar, programme, etc.
Course for fish farmers about animal welfare
Date: 2019-03-27- -29
Organisers: Nationellt Kompetenscentrum för Vattenbruk (NKfV) together with SLU Aquaculture, Swemarc and Matfiskodlarna. Funding: European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF).
Launch of code of practice for Swedish fish farming
Date: 2019-03-27
Organisers: Nationellt Kompetenscentrum för Vattenbruk (NKfV) together with SLU Aquaculture, Swemarc and Matfiskodlarna.
Integration of Agriculture and Aquaculture – a key concept for future food production?
Date: 2019-03-20
Organisers: SLU Aquaculture and SLU Future Food arranged a seminar with KSLA Wallenberg Professor Barry Costa-Pierce.
- See the recorded presentation: Integration of Agriculture and Aquaculture – a key concept for future food production? (in English and the recording is not subtitled).
- Please send us an email if you are interested in the presentation slides from the seminar.
SLU Aquaculture workshop
Date: 2019-03-12
Organisers: SLU Aquaculture
The second platform workshop gathering aquaculture researchers at SLU.
- More information about the programme, presentations etc. (in English).
Fish health conference
Matologi 2018 "Mitt hållbara matval"
Date: 2018-08-25
SLU Aquaculture participated together with SLU Future Food in the event with the theme "Sustainable Food Choice".
- A short summary about our participation at the event (at the bottom of the page you can find a link to: Interested in noble crayfish farming - see the ABC material (in Swedish)).
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SLU Aquaculture workshop - platform kick-off
Date: 2018-04-26
Organisers: SLU Aquaculture
SLU aquaculture researchers gathered in a cross-faculty kick-off meeting for the newly formed SLU Aquaculture.