Advanced Technologies for Autonomous Health and Welfare Monitoring in Aquaculture Tender

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Country: United Kingdom

Summary: Advanced Technologies for Autonomous Health and Welfare Monitoring in Aquaculture

Deadline: 21 Aug 2025

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Notice Type: Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 124125584

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Financier: Self Financed

Purchaser Ownership: Public

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Scope - The Government supports the production of healthy, high-welfare animals as part of the UK's food system. We are aware that there is significantly less known about what drives the behaviour of individual fish compared to terrestrial animals. Technical advances in monitoring individuals in group settings combined with artificial intelligence have the potential to play an increasingly important role in animal welfare assessment, and the full potential of these approaches remains to be realised. One anticipated application of the proposed operational product is to improve the monitoring of the health and welfare of Atlantic Salmon and Rainbow Trout, including during breeding. For instance, this could enable us to better understand the welfare impact of different breeding goals and practices. Key objectives of the potential requirement are to: (a) identify key species-specific health, and especially, welfare indicators that could be assessed using new techniques for autonomous fish monitoring, focusing on Atlantic Salmon and Rainbow Trout; (b) develop new software that allows for improved autonomous monitoring of these indicators for large numbers of fish in commercial conditions; and (c) validate these novel techniques for assessing health and welfare through pilot tests, including assessing the feasibility of implementation. Skills and Experience - • Demonstrable understanding of fish welfare science and current approaches to health and welfare assessments. • Demonstrabl...

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