Recently scientists from Oulu University of Applied Sciences in Finland and Nofima in Norway performed a test of the Smart-Fish sensors on a shipment of salmon in Norway. Watch a film from the testing. https://vimeo.com/269627081 The trial was also covered by the news media Salangen Nyheter. Read more and see film.
Seventeen candidates including the NPA Smartfish-project were nominated for The Atlantic Project Awards 2017. All candidates demonstrated elements of excellence in strategy, innovation, implementation, results and relevance with the Atlantic’s “Blue Growth” key priorities, according to the jury. The Atlantic Project Awards, established in 2016, are designed to honour outstanding success stories, achieved by projects in…
Project manager Ragnheidur I. Thorarinsdottir from University of Iceland presented the NPA Smartfish project during the Aquaculture Europe 2017 conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia October 20th, 2017. The AE2017 conference was a great success with aproximately 1700 participants from more than 60 different countries. Conference video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8q9om9MK2Q Read more about the conference on the AE2017…
Project manager Ragnheiður Inga Þórarinsdóttir held a presentation about the status of the Smart-Fish research project during the conference Blue Opportunities: The Marine Economy in the NPA, in Galway, Ireland, September 21st, 2017. You may watch a video of the presentation below. https://www.facebook.com/SmartFishProject/videos/1761702174129679/
March 2nd 2017 a short seminar was held in Tromsø, Norway. During the seminar the scientists gave a brief overview over the current status of the NPA Smart-Fish research project. Project manager Ragnheidur L. Thorarinsdottir from The University of Iceland gave a short introduction about the project. Scientists Harri Määtä and Henry Hinkula from The…
Scientists from Iceland, Finland and Norway working with the NPA Smart-Fish research project visited Lerøy Aurora’s aquaculture farm near Sessøya in Troms, Norway. The purpose of the visit was to learn more about the production of farmed salmon in Norway. The visit took place during a project meeting between the partners in Tromsø, Norway, in…
The scientists involved in the NPA Smart-Fish research project visited The Scottish Sea Farms Harvest Station and Processing Plant in South Shian in Scotland May 2nd, 2016. Photo: Wilhelm Solheim/Nofima Photo: Wilhelm Solheim/Nofima Photo: Wilhelm Solheim/Nofima …
A seminar about the NPA Smart-Fish project was organised during the UK Aquaculture Exhibition in Aviemore in Scotland, on May 2nd, 2016. The event was advertised to people working in the industry, including fish processors, transport companies and retailers through contacts, the Associate Partners at Pinneys and Scottish Sea Farms, and through the FishSite.com. Various…
It is important for Smart-Fish to have the best possible insight into the needs of the industrial partners.For this reason, the presentation and tour of the Hätälä factory in Oulu in Finland was particularly enlightening for the scientists from Scotland, Iceland, Norway and Finland. A visit to the operations at Hätälä had been arranged in…
Antti Haapalahti from Oulu University of Applied Science and Ragnheidur Thorarinsdottur from University of Iceland participated in the successful NPA conference and lead partner meeting held in Kuopio in Finland in the end of September 2015. All 19 NPA projects that have been approved in the first two NPA calls were presented at the meeting…