Does waste feed from salmon farming affect the quality of saithe (Pollachius virens L.) attracted to fish farms?

Salmon farms attract large amounts of wild fish, which prey on uneaten feed pellets. The modified diet of the wild fish aggregating at salmon farms may reduce the flesh quality of the fish, influencing the local fisheries. We compared the quality of saithe (Pollachius virens) captured near (farm associated—FA) or more than 5 km away (un‐associated—UA) from salmon farms in Norway. The fish were captured during summer, autumn and spring using two commercial fishing methods (jigging and bottom nets). Overall, the fillet quality of FA saithe was good, although it was clearly reduced for almost 10% of the catch. Moreover, the quality of the FA saithe was significantly reduced compared with UA saithe, but the differences were small. Our results also showed that fish caught with jigging had better quality than fish caught with nets, and that fish that died in the nets were of lower quality than fish that were alive after hauling. There was no clear variation among seasons in fillet quality. Although no major and overall differences in quality were found between FA and UA saithe, reduced quality for even a modest proportion of the fish may influence the value of the total catch.The study was funded by the Norwegian Seafood Research Fund through the ProCoEx project (Project number: 900772) and the Norwegian Research Council through the project ‘ECOCOAST’. Kilian Toledo‐Guedes was supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism (ES07‐EEA Grants, 013‐ABEL‐IM‐2013), operated by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Juan de la Cierva Program FJCI‐2014‐20100 and IJCI‐2017‐34174 from Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades

Det som sitter i veggene

SammendragRommet ser ut til spille en viktig rolle når man informerer om helse. Et forskningsprosjekt i samarbeid mellom Høgskolene Sør-Trøndelag, Molde og Volda har invitert en gruppe pårørende til mennesker med demens til teaterforestillinger som berører demens-sykdom og pårørendes situasjon. Informantene gir uttrykk for at opplevelsene av disse forestillingene oppleves sterkere og annerledes enn informasjon i et nøytralt rom på sykehuset, og gir en sterkere opplevelse av gjenkjennelse, berøring  og bygningene kan ha på for formidling, og hva opplevelsen av mening, gjennom kunsten, han ha å si for pårørende i en krevende situasjon. Hva slags kunnskap og mening er materialisert i et sykehus, og hva ligger i en teaterbygning

Det som sitter i veggene

Rommet ser ut til spille en viktig rolle når man informerer om helse. Et forskningsprosjekt i samarbeid mellom Høgskolene Sør-Trøndelag, Molde og Volda har invitert en gruppe pårørende til mennesker med demens til teaterforestillinger som berører demens-sykdom og pårørendes situasjon. Informantene gir uttrykk for at opplevelsene av disse forestillingene oppleves sterkere og annerledes enn informasjon i et nøytralt rom på sykehuset, og gir en sterkere opplevelse av gjenkjennelse, berøring og bygningene kan ha på for formidling, og hva opplevelsen av mening, gjennom kunsten, han ha å si for pårørende i en krevende situasjon. Hva slags kunnskap og mening er materialisert i et sykehus, og hva ligger i en teaterbygning?publishedVersio

Theater as `bildung` in the health professions

Healthcare workers who watch a theatre play about dementia, gain experiential knowledge about living with dementia. In this essay we discuss the nature of this knowledge in light of the concept of bildung. This discussion hinges on the Gadamers explication of the close ties between understanding (verstehen) and bildung. Theatre as an art form can yield insights into narratives of otherness and may trigger reflection of one’s own experiences and thus, provide opportunities for bildung.publishedVersio

Microsatellite diversity of the Nordic type of goats in relation to breed conservation: how relevant is pure ancestry?

In the last decades, several endangered breeds of livestock species have been re-established effectively. However, the successful revival of the Dutch and Danish Landrace goats involved crossing with exotic breeds and the ancestry of the current populations is therefore not clear. We have generated genotypes for 27 FAO-recommended microsatellites of these landraces and three phenotypically similar Nordic-type landraces and compared these breeds with central European, Mediterranean and south-west Asian goats. We found decreasing levels of genetic diversity with increasing distance from the south-west Asian domestication site with a south-east-to-north-west cline that is clearly steeper than the Mediterranean east-to-west cline. In terms of genetic diversity, the Dutch Landrace comes next to the isolated Icelandic breed, which has an extremely low diversity. The Norwegian coastal goat and the Finnish and Icelandic landraces are clearly related. It appears that by a combination of mixed origin and a population bottleneck, the Dutch and Danish Land-races are separated from the other breeds. However, the current Dutch and Danish populations with the multicoloured and long-horned appearance effectively substitute for the original breed, illustrating that for conservation of cultural heritage, the phenotype of a breed is more relevant than pure ancestry and the genetic diversity of the original breed. More in general, we propose that for conservation, the retention of genetic diversity of an original breed and of the visual phenotype by which the breed is recognized and defined needs to be considered separately

The art(s) of getting lost : Halting places for culturally responsive research methods

This chapter revisits the ideas of radical empiricism and sensuous scholarship, embedded in current music education research. Focusing on the development of methodological implications of cultural responsiveness and arts-based research methods, the chapter argues for epistemic openness. The discussion is located within the author’s own experiences of course development for Swedish music teacher students in Gambia, field studies in multicultural classrooms in Sweden, and research design that includes the fiddle, opening up for music to ask the questions. Borrowing from anthropological research the concepts of radical empiricism and sensuous scholarship, music education researchers might find useful tools to approach project planning, to perform the analysis of the material and to communicate the results in culturally responsive forms that inform both research and praxis. By studying music transmission with culturally sensitive research methods, this chapter suggests possibilities to do more than observing and reporting. There is a possibility to engage with different knowledge systems and politics, in all types of retrieved material – and to generate inclusive knowledge building