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ALFRED JOKUMSEN Technical University of Denmark

DTU Aqua The North Sea Research Centre

Hirtshals - Denmark

The Sustainable Eel Standard - Danish Case

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ALFRED JOKUMSEN DTU Aqua

The Sustainable Eel Standard - Danish Case • Fish nutrition and physiology • Fish welfare •Organic fish farming • Sustainability in fish farming • Certification of fish farming

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Certification processes

Freshwater Trout Aquaculture Dialogue

(FTAD) standard:

Develop a global, measureable, performance

based standard, - transparent environmental

and social impacts from farming of trout in

fresh water and that maintain economic

sustainability of trout production (2012)

Implementation in Danish Trout farms

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EC-regulation on Organic Aquaculture Production into force 1 July 2010

• Replaced national standards

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Certification of Eel Farming

Jupiter Eel – Morten Lauritzen -DK

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AIM

1. Implementation of ”The

Sustainable Eel Standard”

in a Danish pioneer eel farm

Jupiter Eel – Morten Lauritzen -DK

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2. Dissemination of knowledge

and information about

sustainable eel farming

Jupiter Eel – Morten Lauritzen -DK

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A knowledged based tool to turn the negative image of the eel in the public to a positive image of eel farming as the tool to build up the wild stock of eel

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PRO-EEL:

Artificial reproduction of European eel: Capture-based aquaculture

self-sustained aquaculture

www.PRO-EEL.eu

Silver eel

Egg

Larvae

Glass-eel

Yellow eel

Culture

Kendt

Nature

Spawners

Known

Unknownj Kendt

Known Unknown

Sustainable Eel – Venice May 2012 10 DTU Aqua, Technical University of Denmark Thanks for your attention

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