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Article in Fish Farmer magazine: Hitting the Target

Article for the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling (p11) special edition of Fish Farmer magazine in May 2018

Video on the demonstration of the ROSSI vaccination machine in Greece with Aqualife services

Proyecto Europeo Targetfish mejora el conocimiento de la próxima generación de vacunas de peces

Article written by Lluis Tort (UAB) about TargetFish for the website of MisPeces.com: el portal de la acuicultura. Read more…

AquaFarm 2018: Great satisfaction among participants, companies, exhibitors, associations and institutions.

The second edition of AquaFarm, 15 and 16 february 2018, Pordenone, Italy ends with an impetuous growth: more than 55% visitors compared to the 2017 edition, 20% of which come from 32 foreign countries. Many topics were discussed in the 21 international conference sessions with 130 speakers, 30% of which were international. The most interesting topics presented at Aquafarm are related to aquaponics, that is the integration in a single system of fish breeding and cultivation of plants. Read more…

Demonstration aquaculture vaccination machine made by ROSSI

In January Aquark (p26 ) organised an aquaculture workshop on vaccination strategies followed by a practical demonstration of the innovative ROSSI vaccination machine, which can vaccinate sea bass less than 8 grams. Read more…

News item about TargetFish at the website of IZSVe

Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (P12) published an news item about the results of TargetFish at their website. Click here to read it.

Presentation for Danish fish farmers

Veterinarian Niels Henrik Henriksen of Danish Aquaculture Organization (P28) presented the results of a field test trial of an autogenous Flavobacterium psychrophilum vaccine carried out during TargetFish for Rainbow Trout Fry Syndrome, at a meeting for members of The Danish Aquaculture Organization, October 2017. Link to report.

Presentation at EAFP 2017

Rowena Hoare of University of Stirling (P11) presented vaccine development work carried out during TargetFish for Rainbow trout fry syndrome, caused by Flavobacterium psychrophilum, at the European Association of Fish pathologists (EAFP) conference in Belfast, September 2017.

Mini-paper and poster at LARVI 2017

At LARVI 2017, the 7th fish & shellfish larviculture symposium 4-7 september 2017, Ghent, Belgium, Fishlab (P19) presented a TARGETFISH minipaper and a poster with the title: Approaches towards bioencapsulation of oral vaccines for early stages of aquacultured fish
The minipaper was published in: C.I. Hendry (Ed), 2017. Larvi ‘17 – 7th Fish and Shellfish Larvieculture symposium, Gent, Belgium,p 146-149.

Green to the bone, sustainable fish farming saves the environment

In Wageningen World (2017, nr 3), the magazine of Wageningen University and Research, an article about the contribution of TargetFish to fish farming was published. Click here to read the article (page 26-31)

Info-møde om vaccination af fisk

Dansk Akvakultur (Partner 28), Kobenhavns Universitet (Partner 13), Århus Universitet and DTU (Partner 2) conducted a one-day course for Danish Fish farmers (May 2016 in Silkeborg, Denmark) where the usage of vaccines in Danish trout production were highlighted. Click here for the program.

DAFINET WORKSHOP Abstracts and program Nov 2016

Kurt Buchmann (partner 13) performed as DAFINET a two day international workshop in Denmark (November 2016) at the University of Copenhagen they focused on vaccination strategies also for tilapia and silurid fish.

European Aquaculture Society meeting in Edinburgh on September 2016

Rowena Hoare (partner 11) gave a presentation for the British Trout Association at the European Aquaculture Society meeting in Edinburgh on September 2016 on the development of a vaccine for Rainbow Trout Fry syndrome (Flavobacteriosis) as part of TargetFish project work carried out at P11 Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling.

International Fish and Shellfish Immunology meeting in Portland, Maine, June 2016

Several partners gave presentations during the International Fish and Shellfish meeting in Portland, Maine, June 2016.

EAFP UK and Ireland Branches Second Meeting: “Aquatic animal health in a changing world”

Prof. Sandra Adams (partner 11) from the Institute of Aquaculture Stirling hosted the second UK and Ireland EAFP Branches meeting. Rowena Hoare gave a presentation during EAFP UK and Ireland Branches Second Meeting: “Aquatic animal health in a changing world” in Stirling UK. 15-16 September 2016.

Bit’s 5th annual world congress of aquaculture and fisheries 2016

Ansgar Stratmann of W42 (partner 25) gave two presentation during Bit’s 5th annual world congress of aquaculture and fisheries 2016 in Qingdao, P.R. China – 4-6th of Nov. 2016. These presentations partly showed Targetfish based results. Topics of the two presentations: “Development of high-efficient vaccines by customer based approach” and “Fast track novel vaccines for a fast growing global aquaculture industry”

Vaccinating flatfish

As part of WP7, Targetfish aims to optimise vaccination strategies to field conditions. While immersion is presently the most commonly used delivery route for vaccinating small fish, injection often provides longer-lasting protection. To solve the immediate problem that, until present, manually handling small fish for injection vaccination is not cost effective, Targetfish has re-designed injection vaccination machinery for use on small flatfish like tarbot, while preserving animal welfare.

Hitting the target

An article about TargetFish, written by Patrick Smith (P17), was published in Fish Farmer Magazine (volume 38, number 8, august 2015).

Annual meeting of the European Project TargetFish

PhD Ana de las Heras, the person in charge of the Targetfish project within Bionaturis Group (P30), attended the annual meeting of this European consortium intended to develop new vaccines for aquaculture.

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Aquaculture Europe 2014 Conference

On Thursday October 16, 2014, DG RTD organised a half session in the Aquaculture Europe 2014 Conference to present selected FP7 projects related to aquaculture. We have used this excellent opportunity to present Targetfish at this important conference.

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Interview with Ana de las Heras

Ph.D. Ana de las Heras is coordinating the participation of Bionaturis in Targetfish, the European consortium that is seeking solutions to the most common diseases in aquaculture. The balance after this first year is very positive.

18th Annual Workshop of the NRLs for Fish Diseases

On June 3-4, 2014, Helle Frank Skall from partner 2, Aarhus University, presented TargetFish at the 18^th Annual Workshop of the National Reference Laboratories for Fish Diseases. There was a good response to the presentation and people were interested in the project.

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Meeting with fish nutritionists in Norway

On June 10-11, 2014, Geert Wiegertjes presented the Targetfish project to the fish health department at Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre in Stavanger, Norway, where one is working on the development of targeted diets to help mitigate the effects of infectious diseases.

Meeting with European fish parasitologists

On May 22-23, 2014, at the occasion of a new H2020 proposol, several Targetfish partners joined a consortium meeting hosted by Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas – CSIC in Barcelona, Spain to discuss the mutual benefits between Targetfish and this new initiative on the development of a scientific basis and tools for preventing and mitigating parasitic diseases. If successful, the two projects would together address bacterial, viral AND parasitic diseases of European farmed fish.

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PHARMAQademy in Inverness

Prof Sandra Adams was invited to present TARGETFISH at PHARMAQademy in Inverness, Scotland which was attended by 80 participants, mainly from the UK aquaculture industry. The event which was split over two days is an annual fixture in the Industry calendar. On the first day delegates heard about the practicalities of anaesthetising and vaccinating fish as well as some aspects of treating for sea lice. The second day included presentations about antibiotic use in animal culture, mycotoxins as well as two Framework 7 projects of which one was of course Targetfish!

VIC Congress: Vaccines: Formulation Development, Manufacturing & Novel Production Technologies

Jaime Tobar, partner 27, Centrovet, was invited as guest speaker at the VIC Congress: Vaccines: Formulation Development, Manufacturing & Novel Production Technologies 4 – 5 December 2013 in Brussel, Belgium. He also presented the poster on behalf of Targetfish.

Interview with Bionaturis researcher Ana de las Heras on Spanish television.

Excerpt from TV channel South “Open Europe/Global Village” on Bionaturis’ use of Flylife technology in the Targetfish project.

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Workshop “Plant made vaccines as an alternative to antibiotics”

London, Ontario 23^rd-25^th Sept. Chris Secombes was invited to speak “Vaccines for fish diseases”. In his presentation, funded by OECD he addressed, in particular, how Targetfish is aiming to develop partnerships with industry and regulatory pathways for the testing, approval and commercialization of veterinary vaccines.

Meeting with the carp breeders associations

At the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Institute for Ichthyobiology and Aquaculture of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Golysz (Poland) Geert Wiegertjes presented on the 19th September 2013 the Targetfish project and its wish to discuss with policy makers, scientists and industry. The meeting was attended by approximately 40 participants, among which representatives of industry, carp breeders associations and inland fisheries societies.