{"id":2827,"date":"2026-09-18T10:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T10:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2026-10-13T15:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T15:08:19","slug":"asa-maria-espmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/2026\/09\/18\/asa-maria-espmark\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00c5sa Maria Espmark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr \u00c5sa Maria Espmark is based in Sunndals\u00f8ra and is Research Director of the Production Biology department within Nofima\u2019s Aquaculture division. As a researcher and later a senior scientist, she has worked on welfare, welfare indicators and stress in farmed fish, with a particular focus on salmon. In recent years, her work has focused on developing new aquaculture technologies, emphasising that these must be designed around the needs of the fish.<\/p>\n<p>Espmark has led major Norwegian and international projects, including OrAqua and FutureEUAqua. Until 2023, she devoted most of her time to leading CtrlAQUA, a Centre for Research-based Innovation. CtrlAQUA\u2019s main objective was to develop technological and biological innovations to make closed-containment systems a reliable and economically viable option for rearing post-smolt salmon up to 1 kg.<\/p>\n<p>In her presentation, Espmark will share her thoughts on how research institutions can help strengthen the knowledge base needed to improve fish welfare in aquaculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr \u00c5sa Maria Espmark is based in Sunndals\u00f8ra and is Research Director of the Production Biology department within Nofima\u2019s Aquaculture division. As a researcher and later a senior scientist, she has worked on welfare, welfare indicators and stress in farmed fish, with a particular focus on salmon. In recent years, her work has focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-speakers-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smoltproduksjon.no\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}