WP3 - Nutrition and Wellness (NUBE)

Objectives

Objective 3.1

Improving knowledge on crop welfare through the use of new tools and indicators in a context of global change.

  • Action 2.11: Improving knowledge on the welfare of cultured fish and developing systems to continuously and reliably monitor (i) new welfare indicators under normal culture conditions and during the slaughter process (where appropriate) and (ii) developing strategies to improve feed intake and utilisation, growth, reproduction and health status (susceptibility to disease) of cultured fish.
  • Task 3.1.2: Dermal cortisol
  • Task 3.1.3: Fatty acid profile monitoring

Objective 3.2

Improve nutrition and feeding of farmed animals through the use of new feed formulations based on alternative raw material mixtures and dietary supplements validated throughout the production cycle with zootechnical, behavioural data and new molecular biology and microbiota monitoring tools.

  • Action 2.12: Improvement of fish nutrition and feeding through the use of new feed formulations based on mixtures of alternative raw materials (insect proteins, polychaetes, algae extracts, yeasts, bacterial proteins, etc.) and dietary supplements (probiotics, prebiotics, symbiotics, probiotics), validated throughout the production cycle with zootechnical and behavioural data (intake, physical activity, space occupation, etc.) and new molecular biology tools and monitoring of the microbiota as a marker of the general state of the fish.
  • Task 3.2.1. New sea bream feed formulations
  • Task 3.2.2: Development of sustainable shrimp feed
  • Task 3.2.3: Lipid metabolism
  • Task 3.2.4: Characterisation of the palliative effects of the inclusion of dietary probiotics on chronic stress and animal welfare in farmed Mediterranean species (sea bream, sea bass, sea bass, yellowtail)

Objective 3.3

To generate new ingredients for aquaculture feeds from the valorisation of fishery discards and other products and by-products of plant or animal origin in order to obtain compounds of interest for the health and nutrition of farmed species.

  • Action 2.13: Generation of new ingredients for aquaculture feed from the valorisation of fishery discards and other by-products of plant or animal origin in order to obtain compounds of interest for the health and nutrition of farmed species through the application of biotechnological tools.
  • Task 3.3.1: Valorisation of discards and by-products from the fish and meat industries
  • Task 3.3.2: Invertebrate fatty acids
  • Task 3.3.3: Inclusion of functionalised ingredients in feedingstuffs

In charge WP

Juan Carlos Navarro

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Participants WP

Jaume Pérez Sánchez

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Fidel Toldrá Vilardell

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

Jose Miguel Cerdá Reverter

Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

José Manuel Barat Baviera

Universitat Politècnica de València

Miguel Jover Cerdá

Universitat Politècnica de València