AE-FishBIT

Miniaturised tool called AEFishBIT has been designed to monitor individual farmed fish in a non-invasive manner. Weighing less than one gram, AEFishBIT is a tiny programmable & reconfigurable tri-axial accelerometer for data recording and processing. The prototype is externally attached to the fish operculum to monitor physical activity by mapping accelerations in x- and y-axes, while operculum beats (z-axis) serve as a measurement of respiratory frequency. The device has been tested and validated in gilthead sea bream and European sea bass. Preliminary works with cultured salmon also show promising results. Visual observations regarding tissue damage, feeding behaviour and circulating levels of stress markers did not suggest a negative impact from device tagging. To the best of the researchers’ knowledge there is currently no other tagging device that provides a simultaneous measurement of both physical activity and respiratory frequency in a non-invasive manner. Field tests with free-swimming fish facing a wide array of biotic and abiotic factors have highlighted the association of AEFishBIT measurements with better performance or differences in stress and disease resilience

Spain

About Us
Prof. Jaume Pérez-Sánchez has more 30 years of research experience in fish nutrition and growth. He has authored more than SCI 165 articles and book chapters. He is an authority in Fish Nutrigenomics and has developed new fish feed formulations and has achieved the second release of gilthead sea bream genome (doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00760). He has leaded multiple EU and National projects and research contracts with Aquaculture and Aquafeed companies

Problem we are solving
AE-FishBIT contributes to monitor the environment and farmed animals. Such approaches increase the knowledge of the impact of climate change on aquaculture production systems, contributing to mitigate the impact of climate change through the selection of more robust and resilient organisms for sustainable fish farming, (1) meeting the increasing human food demand, and (2) preserving the biodiversity and wildlife of marine ecosystems.

Sustainable Impact on Blue Ecconomy
AE-FishBIT contributes to monitor the environment and farmed animals. Such approaches increase the knowledge of the impact of climate change on aquaculture production systems, contributing to mitigate the impact of climate change through the selection of more robust and resilient organisms for sustainable fish farming, (1) meeting the increasing human food demand, and (2) preserving the biodiversity and wildlife of marine ecosystems.

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