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marine environmental monitoring and impact assessment

Photo: Helge Skoglund, Uni Research UNI RESEARCH
NO-5008 Bergen, Norway
E-mail: post@uni.no
Tel: +47 55 58 50 00
Website: www.uni.no

Uni Research in Bergen is a broadly based, multidisciplinary research institute with 440 highly-qualifi ed employees
from 34 nations. The company carries out research and development on biotechnology, health, environment, climate,
energy and social sciences. The Institute has six departments and one subsidiary, Uni Research Polytec.

Uni Research undertakes marine environmental life. Nofi ma is hosting the SFI. supported by both the aquaculture companies
monitoring and impact assessment with an To develop innovations and build capacity and government agencies, in a joint effort to
experience that spans more than four decades. for the aquaculture industry, Uni Research promote sustainable aquaculture.
The projects aim for sustainable development and the University of Bergen collaborate
in both coastal and offshore areas. at the Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture Omega-3 rich algae for the
One of the main objectives for the Innovations. Here novel ways of using fi sh farming industry
integrated environmental and aquaculture the environment to modulate biological Uni Research develops biotechnological
research is to provide critical knowledge for processes are studied, for instance how mechanisms aiming at supporting the
supporting the environment-friendly growth different types of wavelengths of light production of sustainable feeds for the
of the aquaculture industry, the sustainable can lead to the best possible production, aquaculture industry. We screen and identify
management of the environment and its robustness and welfare of farmed salmon. Omega-3 rich microalgae strains, and
resources, as well as to actively fi nd and Novel analytical tools and technologies optimize production. In collaboration with
explore sustainable use of new marine that industry can use to monitor the health, the company CO2Bio and the University of
biomasses. The research contributes to the welfare and growth of fi sh in various Bergen, Uni Research has established the
development of a circular bio-economy and environments will be created. National Algae-Pilot Mongstad facility. Here
to the blue-green revolution. CO2 from the Technology Centre Mongstad
Escaped farmed fi sh capture plant is used to grow omega-3 rich
Closed fi sh farming facilities and sea lice algae for the fi sh farming industry.
Uni Research is in the forefront of research on Key challenges such as escaped farmed fi sh
closed and semi-closed fi sh farming facilities. and sea lice are part of the core research Value creation from by-
Over the last years the institute has made in aquaculture biology. Based on results products from the food
signifi cant contributions to the development of from long-term studies in rivers and fjords industry: Discovery of
such systems, focusing on optimizing growth in Western-Norway, the research group new industrial enzymes
and securing good health for the fi sh. Results contributes to knowledge-based understanding Biotechnologists at Uni Research explore
are very promising both regarding robustness of complex interactions between the aquatic the industrial potential of marine organisms
and welfare while constraining key challenges environment and the aquaculture activities and from extreme environments. DNA sequence
such as losses, escape and lice. to propose mitigation approaches and actions. information is used to identify and produce
Uni Research is a partner in the national These include, among others, giving advice novel enzymes for the bioprocessing of
Centre for research-based innovation in on when initiating spring delousing in farms in industrial waste, such as lignocellulosics
close containment systems – SFI-Ctrl AQUA, order to optimize the effect for migrating wild and marine by-products from fi sheries and
which provides detailed knowledge on how smolts, and on methods to effi ciently remove aquaculture. This is a major contribution to
fi sh farmers will benefi t from implementing escaped farmed fi sh from rivers. This research the development of a circular bio-economy
closed systems for part of the farmed-fi sh’s is conducted through a number of projects in Norway.

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