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: