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