Workshops
The workshops were attended by about 50 participants. The numbers in brackets after an item indicates how many participants voted for this item to be prioritized.
WORKSHOP 1 - BIOMARKERS AND BARRIERS
Key points: allostatic or holistic approach to health, not only one aspect affects health. No method tells the entire story (3)
Desires
- Predictive power (13)
- Close to real time (fast)
- Inexpensive tests
- Easy to apply / understand
- Reproducible, reliable, objective (3)
- A set of approaches (panel of biomarkers) operational at farm levels
Behaviour monitoring (13)
- Connect results to visual observations done by fish farmers. (13)
- metaanalysis, feeding behavior and responses , SGR
- Camera + intelligent software, at individual - or group level (3)/(13)
Site or stage specific conditions
- Individual sites.
- Smoltification /smolt transfer window
- Different farming regions.
- Impact of the environment on the farm.
Standardisation of methods for comparison between labs and countries (3)
- Improve communication between labs (3)
- blood chemistry and analytics to generate baselines (6)
- reference parameters (5)
- monitor stressors
- Improve monitoring of gill condition.
- Benchmark differences between strains.
- Gold standard (2)
WORKSHOP 2 - IDEAL TOOL BOXES
Key points: Allostatic or holistic approach to health, not only one aspect affects health. No method tells the entire story (3)
Desires
- Predictive power (13)
- Close to real time (fast)
- Inexpensive tests
- Easy to apply / understand
- Reproducible, reliable, objective (3)
- A set of approaches (panel of biomarkers) operational at farm levels