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Preface
Welcome to the 2nd Workshop on Recirculating Aquaculture systems held by the Nordic Network on Recirculating Aquaculture Systems and organized by DTU Aqua. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and industrial partners with an interest in RAS, creating an opportunity for exchanging practical experiences and scientific knowledge on the newest developments in RAS.
The workshop in 2013 is held in parallel with DanFish International 2013 hosting DanAqua: an aquaculture exhibition focusing particularly on recirculating aquaculture technology.
The 1st workshop was held in Helsinki, Finland in 2011 with 126 participants from thirteen European countries. There were 37 speakers who, like the audience in general, represented all kinds of experiences and approaches to the subject. Practitioners (farmers and RAS entrepreneurs), feed companies and researchers made oral contributions, creating an interesting mix of industry and research experiences. This year, presumably reflecting the increasing interest in recirculation technology, there are even more speakers and participants from even more countries. We have this time decided to bring in knowledge from related research areas, hoping that this will inspire new perspectives and reflections for the future development of RAS, and we hope you will perceive this with open minds.
The Nordic Network on Recirculating Aquaculture Systems is a lasting network, and everybody with an interest in RAS is most welcome to join (please refer to our website: NordicRAS.net). The network was founded in 2011 with support from the Nordic Council of Ministers. The steering committee consists of country representatives from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland:
• Asbjørn Bergheim, IRIS, Norway
• Helgi Thorarensen, Holar University College, Iceland
• Jouni Vielma, Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, Finland
• Per Bovbjerg Pedersen, DTU Aqua, Denmark
• Torsten Wik, Chalmers, Sweden
It is our hope and plan that this workshop will be a recurrent event every other year. We are therefore very pleased that the interest in the workshop this year again has been overwhelmingly positive. We wish you some interesting and pleasant days in Aalborg.
On behalf of NordicRAS
Anne Johanne Dalsgaard, DTU Aqua