CTI Gotthard water
Developement of standards for the production of burbot and pike-perch in temperated water of the Gotthard-tunnel in Erstfeld
At a glance
- Project leader : Fridolin Tschudi
- Project team : Prof. Dr. Ranka Junge, Dr. Constanze Pietsch-Schmied, Zala Schmautz, Mathias Sigrist
- Project budget : CHF 700'000
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : CTI (KTI-Projekt / Projekt Nr. 17393.1 PFLS-LS)
- Project partner : Basis 57 nachhaltige Wassernutzung AG
- Contact person : Fridolin Tschudi
Description
The Basis 57 sustainable water use SA wants to use the
temperated water from the neat basis tunnel for production of local
fish. Therefore, a research facility will be buildt for a
production of burbot and pike perch. The goal is to test the water
quality for fish production and to develop production standards for
commercial aquaculture. There will be buildt tree different
recirculated aquaculture systems: quarantine, burbot-RAS and
pike-perch-RAS. In these, the production standards for burbot
production will be optimized with experiments regarding tank
structurs, rearing temperature and stocking density. Further, the
pike-perch production standards will be verified for the water from
Mt. Gotthard.
The project ends with a test selling of the fish produced and
delivers the base for commercial production.