Draft work programme of NACEE
1. Strengthening cooperation and information exchange between NACEE member institutions
1.1 Concluding bilateral and multilateral cooperation agreements between NACEE institutes, organizations and enterprises (identifying common topics for cooperation and confirmation of cooperation during submission of future projects)
Responsible organization: all NACEE members
1.2 Exchange of students and young specialists in the frame of European and other mobility programmes (“Leonardo da Vinci” and others)
Responsible organization: all NACEE members
1.3 Establishment of a joint electronic library on fish farming issues
Coordinator: ASU
Participants: all NACEE members
1.4 Providing opportunities for publication of joint papers
Responsible organization: NACEE members having their own publishing house or scientific periodicals
Participants: all NACEE members
1.5 Compiling a catalogue of the scientific periodicals (journals, bulletins, collected papers) of NACEE members, including information on the required sections and instructions for authors
Responsible organization: NACEE Secretariat
Participants: all NACEE members
2. Genetic resources
2.1 Status of the genetic resources of sturgeons
2.1.1 Evaluation and restoration of Baltic sturgeon populations
Coordinator: The Stanislaw Sakowicz Inland Fisheries Institute
Participants: Institute of Hydrobiology and Fisheries, Germany;
Fisheries Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of Lithuania; FCFGS,
GosNIORKH,
VNIRO,
KSTU
2.1.2 Evaluation and restoration of Dnieper sturgeon populations
Coordinator: Institute of Fisheries of the NAANU
Participants: KSAU
2.1.3 Preparation and publication of a broad analytical material on the status of natural and artificial reproduction of sturgeons in Central and Eastern Europe
Coordinator: ASU
Participants: KSAU
2.1.4 Compilation and publication of a catalogue of sturgeons in Central and Eastern Europe
Coordinator: ASU
Participants: KSAU
The Stanislaw Sakowicz Inland Fisheries Institute
2.2 Exploitation and management of the genetic resources of common carp
Coordinator: HAKI
Participants: Acvacultura-Moldova
IZ ASM
Institute of Fisheries, Belarus
Institute of Genetics and Cytology, Belarus
Institute of Fisheries of the NAASU
2.3 Evaluation and restoration of European eel stocks in transborder waters of Lithuania, Poland and the Kaliningrad Province of Russia
Coordinator: The Stanislaw Sakowicz Inland Fisheries Institute
Participants: Fisheries Service under the Ministry of Agriculture of Lithuania;
KSTU
3. Technology of fish propagation and rearing
3.1 Improving the technology of commercial fry rearing
Coordinator: The Stanislaw Sakowicz Inland Fisheries Institute
Participants: Gosrybcentr;
ASTU
3.2 Optimization of the rearing process of cultured species in recirculated systems
Coordinator: Gosrybcentr
Participants: ASTU
3.3 Optimization of the biotechnology of broodstock development, artificial propagation and market fish rearing of sturgeons in river cages and ponds
Coordinator: Gosrybcentr
Participants: ASTU
4. Feeding
No approved projects
5. Processing
No approved projects
6. Ecology
6.1 Evaluation of the current status and development perspectives of the ecosystems in water bodies used for fisheries purposes – ponds, reservoirs and lakes
Coordinator: VNIRO
Participants: KSAU
6.2 Development of evaluation methods of the status of living aquatic resources and the pollution of the aquatic environment in seas of the World Ocean (Аrctic, southern seas of Russia, Caspian Sea, Azov-Black Sea Basin)
Coordinator: ASTU
Participants: KSAU
7. Fish health
7.1 Study of the development anomalies and pathologies of cultured species, including those reared in intensive farms: status, ways of their minimizing, prevention and treatment
Coordinator: VNIRO
Participants: Gosrybcentr
8. Fish biology
No approved projects
9. Educational programmes
9.1 Development of common educational and methodological programmes and courses in the field of fisheries for BSc, MSc and PhD training of specialists for fish farms
Coordinator: ASU
Participants: KSAU
9.2 Compiling and publishing integrated scientific monographs, coursebooks and study aids (under a NACEE logo) for scientific support and training of specialists in the fields of aquatic ecology, hydrobiology, ichthyology and aquaculture
Coordinator: KSAU
Participants: ASU
The Stanislaw Sakowicz Inland Fisheries Institute
Further cooperation topics proposed by NACEE members
1. Strengthening cooperation and information exchange between NACEE member institutions
None
2. Genetic resources
2.1 Cooperation on the introduction of new objects of cultivation into aquaculture
Coordinator: Gosrybcentr
Participants:
2.2 Development of a frozen gene bank of rare and endangered fish species of Central and Eastern Europe for their conservation and aquaculture propagation
Coordinator: VNIIPRKH
Participants:
2.3 Status of the genetic resources of sturgeons
2.3.1 Organization of an international conference on sturgeons
Coordinator: ASU
Participants:
2.3.2 Drawing the attention of the governments of Central and Eastern Europe to the importance of increasing efforts on sturgeon conservation
Coordinator: ASU
Participants:
3. Technology of fish propagation and rearing
3.1 Developing the technology of artificial propagation of European perch and its market fish rearing in tanks and ponds
Coordinator: ASTU
Participants:
4. Feeding
4.1 Development of formulated feeds, vitamin and mineral premixes for intensively reared species
Coordinator: ASTU
Participants:
4.2 Development of larval feeds with destructured proteins for sturgeons, coregonids and carps
Coordinator: ASTU
Participants:
4.3 Use of carotenoids in sturgeon feeds
Coordinator: ASTU
Participants:
5. Processing
5.1 Development of methods for salting ovulated sturgeon eggs
Coordinator: ASTU
Participants:
6. Ecology
6.1 Evaluation of the ecotoxicological status of water bodies used for fish culture (water, soils, reared species)
Coordinator: VNIRO
Participants:
6.2 Study of the status of water bodies on the backdrop of the climate change
Coordinator: KSAU
Participants:
7. Fish health
None
8. Fish biology
8.1 Study of the physiology and biochemistry of cultured species: functional standards
Coordinator: VNIRO
Participants:
9. Educational programmes
9.1 Compilation and publishing (under a NACEE logo) of unified methodological guidebooks (Methods of ichthyological research, Methods of hydrobiological research, etc.)
Coordinator: KSAU
Participants: