European Percid Fish Culture (EPFC)

This new system needed to serve two purposes:
Possibility to conduct feeding trials with an option for digestibility research.
Be the optimal system for fish from 0.1g to 10g, a grow-out for juveniles.

During her doctoral research, dr. Linda Tschirren, developped an app to help fish farmers evaluating how fish feel in their farm. The model her app uses, named MyFishCheck, allows the evaluation of welfare in five distinct modules: farm management, water quality, fish group behaviour, fish external and fish internal appearance, thereby yielding five individual grades categorising welfare ranging from critical, to poor, to acceptable, and good.

NAIK HAKI investigated a lot of approaches to create a pikeperch broodstock. According to Uros Ljubobratovic one of the most promising approach is a combination of keeping the animals first outdoor followed by stocking in indoor recirculated aquaculture system (RAS).