The aim of the project is to reveal how swimming training is influencing the cardiovascular capacities of fish to encounter heatwaves. The project is important since heatwaves are causing significant threat for aquaculture fish since cannot escape the heatwaves from their tanks. The heatwaves are also causing significant cardiovascular problems to fish which influence their survival capacities. The fish in aquaculture have impaired cardiovascular capacities as compared to wild fish since they do not need to e.g. swim in rearing facilities. Swimming training could, thus, be one way to enhance their cardiovascular capacities to encounter heatwaves. In this project we are measuring the effects of training from molecular to whole animal level and simultaneously applying the training methods to fish aquaculture to improve the welfare of the fish and possibly also reduce the heatwave caused mortalities.

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