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Biography Vasco Mota
I work in the Production Biology department within Nofima’s Aquaculture division. My research interest lies primarily in understanding and optimizing the interaction between fish and production systems.
Fish physiology, health, welfare and growth assessment in different production conditions is an important area of my research. Here, I have worked with several aquaculture species including rainbow trout, turbot, Nile tilapia and Atlantic salmon. Recent research includes improvement of Atlantic salmon post-smolt in RAS, within the CtrlAQUA SFI.
Recirculating aquaculture systems are another central part of my research. Here I focus on water quality assessment, including the accumulation of several metabolites (e.g. TAN, CO2, hormones, particles), nutrient mass balances and, system unit (e.g. biofilter, degasser) removal efficiencies.Education: Aquaculture PhD, Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Aquaculture and Fisheries MSc, University of Algarve, Portugal; Biology BSc, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Vasco Mota has 10 publications at Nofima:
Physiological responses to live air transport of red king crab (Paralithodes camtschaticus)
Mota, Vasco; Siikavuopio, Sten Ivar; James, Philip
2021
Davidson, John; Summerfelt, Steven T.; Espmark, Åsa Maria Olofsdotter; Mota, Vasco; Marancik, David; Earley, Ryan L.; Snead, Anthony; Good, Christopher
2021
Stiller, Kevin Torben; Kolarevic, Jelena; Lazado, Carlo C.; Gerwins, Jascha; Good, Christopher; Summerfelt, Steven T.; Mota, Vasco C.; Espmark, Åsa Maria Olofsdotter
2020
Mota, Vasco C.; Nilsen, Tom Ole; Gerwins, Jascha; Gallo, Michele; Kolarevic, Jelena; Krasnov, Aleksei; Terjesen, Bendik Fyhn
2020
Influence of rate of salinity increase on nitrifying biofilms
Navada, Sharada; Vadstein, Olav; Tveten, Ann-Kristin; Verstege, Gerhardus C.; Terjesen, Bendik Fyhn; Mota, Vasco C.; Venkatraman, Vishwesh; Gaumet, Frederic; Mikkelsen, Øyvind; Kamstra, Andries
2019
Effect of CO2 on elemental concentrations in recirculating aquaculture system tanks
Aslam, Shazia Nusrat; Navada, Sharada; Bye, Gisle Roel; Mota, Vasco C.; Terjesen, Bendik Fyhn; Mikkelsen, Øyvind
2019
Mota, Vasco C.; Nilsen, Tom Ole; Gerwins, Jascha; Gallo, Michele; Ytteborg, Elisabeth; Bæverfjord, Grete; Kolarevic, Jelena; Summerfelt, Steven T.; Terjesen, Bendik Fyhn
2019
Effects of high environmental CO2 levels on Atlantic salmon post-smolts
Nilsen, Tom Ole; Terjesen, Bendik Fyhn; Kolarevic, Jelena; Ytteborg, Elisabeth; Ebbesson, Lars O.E.; Handeland, Sigurd O; Mota, Vasco C.
2018
The effect of carbon dioxide on fish growth performance in recirculating aquaculture systems
Stiller, Kevin Torben; Nilsen, Tom Ole; Mota, Vasco C.; Gerwins, Jascha; Gallo, Michele; Ytteborg, Elisabeth; Bæverfjord, Grete; Kolarevic, Jelena; Summerfelt, Steven T.; Terjesen, Bendik Fyhn
2018
Water velocity in commercial RAS culture tanks for Atlantic salmon smolt production
Gorle, Jagan; Terjesen, Bendik Fyhn; Mota, Vasco C.; Summerfelt, Steven T.
2018
15. January 2020 – 15. February 2023
A major technological shift in a 344 million annual production of Atlantic salmon smolt is occurring in Norway.
1. January 2020 – 31. December 2022
In the BIO4ROBUST project, the focus is on the biology of farmed Atlantic salmon: The aim is a robust fish in a shifting aquaculture industry.
1. June 2019 – 31. May 2023
In 2017, the European Commission launched the “Food from the Oceans” report, specifically suggesting that marine species at lower levels in the food chain are the future of sustainable aquaculture.