To main content

SINTEF Ocean Aquaculture Technology

Aquaculture Technology

SINTEF Ocean performs research projects in the entire farmed fish chain, from breeding fish to slaughtering. Our team consists of both technologists and biologists, several of which have experience in practical operation.

Hans Vanhauwaert Bjelland
Research Director
988 29 872

Expertise

Top

Aquaculture constructions

Clean water research

Decision support systems

Marine ICT

Marine modelling

Operation and management

Refrigeration systems for food processing

Laboratories

Top

SeaLab e-Infrastructure

An adaptable e-infrastructure for field studies in the aquaculture industry.

ACE

SINTEF ACE is a full-scale laboratory facility designed to develop and test new aquaculture technologies. Facility users are researchers and others conducting practical experiments and tests both under optimally controlled and realistic conditions.
All laboratories

Projects

Top

Compareit

24 June 2021

Compareit addresses how new production systems should be regulated, administered, and where they could be best located, which are highly relevant questions for a sustainable development of the industry that safeguards other societal interests and competing claims to space.

POLYKELP - Seaweed as feed source for protein-rich polychaetes aimed for salmon feed

28 June 2021

The use of renewable marine bioresources to make feed ingredients for fish feed is still in its infancy. In POLYKELP, we will study seaweed and brush worms aimed for use as salmon feed.

COPREST – Value Creation from Rest Raw Materials from Intensive Copepod Production

28 June 2021

The scarcity of marine proteins and lipids is considered to be the greatest challenge needing to be addressed in order for the aquaculture sector to continue to grow in a sustainable manner. In COPREST, CFEED and SINTEF Ocean will explore the possibility of utilising copepods as a feed ingredient.
All projects

News

Top

Ocean engineering collaboration across the Atlantic

12 July 2021

In March 2020, SINTEF Ocean signed a collaboration agreement with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to advance research and innovation in ocean engineering. This new collaboration was announced virtually on June 17, 2021.

SINTEF Ocean joins Aker and World Economic Forum's worldwide network for ocean data

17 March 2021

C4IR Ocean aims to establish the world's largest and most comprehensive platform for data from the ocean space realm. Together with SINTEF Ocean, and the other 16 partners in the centre, the platform will lay the groundwork for developing sustainable, ocean-based solutions for the future.

Model testing opens new possibilities

20 November 2020

As a part of the project “Design and Verification of Large Floating Coastal Structures” (LFCS), a new model test was recently conducted in the Ocean Basin Laboratory.
All news