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Score sheets and endpoints in fish research

Establishing score sheets and defining endpoints in fish experiments

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Program

8:00-9:00Opening registration and coffee   
9:00-9:45Aurora Brønstad, University of Bergen (UoB): Introduction to humane endpoints in fish experiments
 Linda Andersen, ILAB & Anita Rønneseth, UoB: Outline for the workshop and score sheet development
Coffee refill 
10:00Mark Powell, Marineholmen RASLab AS: From algae to jelly fish- when Atlantic salmon experiments don’t go as planned!
10:25

Karin Pittman, UoB: Skin- and gill biopsies of Atlantic salmon

10:50Trond Isaksen, NORCE: Tolerance of juvenile Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) to dissolved gas supersaturation in freshwater
11:15Gyri Haugland: Development of anaesthetic protocols for lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.)
11.40Carolina Gutierrez Rabadan, Swansea University: Development and validation of an Operational Welfare Index for farmed lumpfish.
Lunch: 12-13:00 
13:00-15:45

Work in groups, discussions and feedback to participants

15:45Summary: issues raised during the workshop
Workshop
28.01.2020 - 08.00–16.00
Universitetet i Bergen - Aulaen
Aurora Margrethe Brønstad
Registration deadline 
22.01.2020 - 18.00
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Norwegian Animal Reserach Regulation  

Death as an endpoint (§ 11*)

  • Death should as far as possible not be used as an endpoint
  • It should rather be replaced by earlier and humane endpoints
  • If death as an endpoint in unavoidable, the project must be designed so that:
    • a)As few animals as possible have to die
    • b)Duration and intensity of the affliction must be minimized
    • c)A pain free deaths must be assured

*§ 11 Methods, test strategies and endpoints

21.01.2020