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Finfish mariculture dynamic energy budget model

Principal investigator

Tin Klanjšček, dr. sc.

Tin.Klanjscek@irb.hr

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Project type
Znanstveno-istraživački projekti
Programme
Unity through Knowledge Fund (2014 - 2020)
Financier
Croatian Science Foundation
Start date
Sep 1st 2008
End date
Sep 1st 2010
Status
Done
Total cost
685394 HRK
More information
CroRIS project page

Wild fish stocks are being rapidly depleted, and mariculture – cultivating marine organisms in a controlled environment – can provide an alternative source of seafood. Worldwide mariculture fish production is rapidly growing, and developing mariculture is one of Croatia's strategic goals. Achieving this goal requires minimizing production costs and environmental impacts of mariculture.

The aim of the UKF project FiMDEB was to create a model relating feeding to fish growth, and use it to investigate how common feeding scenarios could be improved. The model was to be based on Dynamic Energy Budget theory of metabolic organization, which describes how organisms acquire and partition energy. Since fish feed constitutes approximately 50% of operational costs of mariculture, any savings in fish feed can lead to substantial savings in production costs.