Revising the Impact and Prospects of Activity and Ventilation Rate Bio-Loggers for Tracking Welfare and Fish-Environment Interactions in Salmonids and Mediterranean Farmed Fish

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Calduch-Giner, Josep, Holhorea, Paul George, Ferrer, Miguel Ángel, Naya-Català, Fernando, Rosell-Moll, Enrique, Vega García, Carlos, Prunet, Patrick, Espmark, Åsa, Leguen, Isabelle, Kolarevic, Jelena, Vega, Aurelio, Kerneis, Thierry, Goardon, Lionel, Afonso, Juan Manuel, Pérez-Sánchez, Jaume
• Other Authors: Institute of Aquaculture of Torre de la Sal, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Laboratoire de Physiologie et Génomique des Poissons = Fish Physiology and Genomics Institute (LPGP), Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Norwegian Institute of Food,Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (NOFIMA), Génétique Animale et Biologie Intégrative (GABI), AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation - MARBEC (UMR MARBEC ), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM), The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø, Norway (UiT), Pisciculture Expérimentale INRAE des Monts d'Arrée (PEIMA), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), This work was supported by the EU H2020 Research Innovation Program under grant agreement no. 871108 (AQUAEXCEL3.0). This output reflects only the author’s view and the European Union cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. Additional funding was obtained by the Spanish MCIN project Bream-AquaINTECH (RTI2018–094128-B-I00, AEI/FEDER, UE) to JP-S and JCG. This study forms part of the ThinkInAzul programme and was supported by MCIN with funding from European Union NextGenerationEU (PRTR-C17.I1) and by Generalitat Valenciana (THINKINAZUL/2021/024) to JP-S, European Project: 871108 ,AQUAEXCEL3.0
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2022
• Subjects: bio-loggers; welfare indicator; activity patterns; ventilation rate; fish behavior; fish robustness; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03634630; https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03634630/document; https://hal.inrae.fr/hal-03634630/file/fmars-09-854888.pdf; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.854888

Voir le Corrigendum : http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.912481 WOS:000797947200001 International audience Behavioral parameters are reliable and useful operational welfare indicators that yield information on fish health and welfare status in aquaculture. However, aquatic environment is still constraining for some solutions based on underwater cameras or echo sounder transmitters. Thus, the use of bio-loggers internally or externally attached to sentinel fish emerges as a solution for fish welfare monitoring in tanks- and sea cages-rearing systems. This review is focused on the recently developed AEFishBIT, a small and light data storage tag designed to be externally attached to fish operculum for individual and simultaneous monitoring of swimming activity and ventilation rates under steady and unsteady swimming conditions for short-term periods. AEFishBIT is a tri-axial accelerometer with a frequency sampling of 50–100 Hz that is able to provide proxy measurements of physical and metabolic activities validated by video recording, exercise tests in swim tunnel respirometers, and differential operculum and body tail movements across fish species with differences in swimming capabilities. Tagging procedures based on tag piercing and surgery procedures are adapted to species anatomical head and operculum features, which allowed trained operators to quickly complete the tagging procedure with a fast post-tagging recovery of just 2.5–7 h in both salmonid (rainbow trout, Atlantic salmon) and non-salmonid (gilthead sea bream, European sea bass) farmed fish. Dual recorded data are processed by on-board algorithms, providing valuable information on adaptive behavior through the productive cycle with the changing environment and genetics. Such biosensing approach also provides valuable information on social behavior in terms of adaptive capacities or changes in daily or seasonal activity, linking respiratory rates with changes in metabolic rates and energy partitioning between growth and physical activity. At ...