The AQUAEXCEL2020 project unites major aquaculture experimental facilities with capacity to undertake experimental trials on a selection of commercially important fish aquaculture species and system types. These facilities are made available to the research community for Transnational Access that involves a research group in one country collaborating with one or more AQUAEXCEL2020 infrastructures that are located in a different country to the applicant, and which offer facilities and expertise not available in their own country.
The collaboration normally takes the form of one or more scientists from the applicant organization visiting the selected AQUAEXCEL2020 installation to undertake research work there for up to 3 months. In some cases, remote access is also available (where the applicant is not present for some or all of the experimental period at the installation).
The facilities available cover the entire range of aquaculture production systems (recirculation, flow-through, cage, hatchery and pond systems); environments (freshwater and marine, cold, temperate and warm water); scales (small, medium and industrial scale); fish species (salmon, trout, sea bass, sea bream, cod, carp, etc); and fields of expertise (nutrition, physiology, health and welfare, genetics, engineering, monitoring and management technologies).
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