How do you know your fish is healthy & robust?
The slimy barriers of gills, skin and guts are the frontline guardians of health, welfare, growth and survival. By verifying the state of these frontline barriers the health status of the stock can be monitored and maintained, helping you to keep the fish healthy & robust.
We are QUANTIDOC - The Barrier Health Company.
We help the fish farming industry keep their stock healthy & robust
Maintaining the frontline barriers of the gills, skin and gut is critical to keeping fish healthy & robust. Keeping these barriers strong and responsive gives good welfare, growth and survival.
Over the past decade, we've developed VERIBARR™ to become the quantitative industry standard for verifying and maintaining the health and robustness of fish frontline barriers now covering 13 species worldwide.
10 reasons why keeping frontline barriers healthy and robust is crucial for profitable and sustainable fish farming
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VERIBARR™ shows how the fish responds to its industrial environment. Continuous monitoring of gills, skin and gut with VERIBARR™ can improve fish health and welfare significantly by identifying counterproductive routines, giving early warnings of vulnerability, and reducing the risk of a variety of treatments.
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Monitoring with VERIBARR™ can improve growth rate and production by early detection of health issues, increasing feeding days and identifying critical stressors.
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Monitoring with VERIBARR™ can help identify changes in the health of fish at an early stage, enabling prompt intervention strategies and treatment before the problem spreads throughout the fish farm. This reduces biological risks and can prevent significant economic losses
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Monitoring with VERIBARR™can reduce mortality rates in fish farming by giving early warnings about vulnerabilities. This can result in improved survival rates, reduced economic losses, and increased profitability.
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Monitoring with VERIBARR™ can reduce biological risk by maintaining strong frontline barriers, thus improving growth and survival, reducing the risk of culling, and reducing the impact on the fish from farming operations.
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Monitoring with VERIBARR™ can lead to improved fish health, resulting in higher quality and more valuable biomass. This can increase the overall value of the fish farming operation, leading to improved market shares and access to markets.
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Monitoring with VERIBARR™ can help reduce operational costs in fish farming by matching fish requirements to feed ingredients and identifying optimal environment and treatment regimes. This can result in improved profitability and shareholder value. By reducing operational costs, Veribarr™ can also improve brand value by demonstrating a commitment to efficient, sustainable and cost-efficient fish farming practices.
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Monitoring with VERIBARR™ can improve the brand value of the fish farmer by improving product quality, enhancing consumer trust, complying with regulations and standards, and reducing the environmental impact of fish farming operations
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Monitoring with VERIBARR™ can help improve shareholder value by reducing operational costs, improving fish health and survival rates, increasing biomass value, and reducing the overall biomass risk. By improving profitability and demonstrating a commitment to sustainable and efficient fish farming practices, frontline barrier mapping can also improve brand value and investor confidence.
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VERIBARR™ is a tool to identify Critical Control Points in fish farming. HACPP is an internationally accredited methodology to identify, assess and control safe food production.
The Impact of Frontline Mucosal Health Monitoring across the aquaculture value chain
Mucosal barriers like the skin, gills and gastrointestinal tract are the gatekeepers of fish health and welfare. At Quantidoc, our cutting-edge technology provides critical objective insights into fish health, to support optimizing production and sustainability from first feeding til harvest, regardless of rearing system. After over a decade of standardized analyses, our large and growing database holds statistically robust measures to use for Status Evaluation, Effect Evaluation or Continuous Monitoring of skin, gills and guts.
Our product, VERIBARR™, can be applied to any system and any fish, gives objective numbers and can be compared with Veribarr Grid, a "traffic light" for strategic interpretation. VERIBARR™ is digital and semi-automated.
Here’s how our services add value to various stakeholders:
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Enhanced Fish Health and Welfare: Regular monitoring of mucosal barriers helps in the early detection of health issues, allowing time to organize logistics or change strategies, reducing disease outbreaks and mortality rates.
Optimized Feed:
Understanding mucosal barrier health enables farmers to adjust feeding strategies, detect dysregulation before it becomes chronic, enhance nutrient absorption, measure certain nutrient effects and reduce feed waste. -
Water Quality Management:
Mucosal health monitoring helps in assessing the impact of stocking density or water quality on fish health, allowing for better management before a logistical challenge arises. VERIBARR™ has been used to measure baseline health for multiple production batches in full RAS systems, providing directly comparable objective results. VERIBARR™ is especially suitable for gill measures.
Disease Prevention:
Early detection through mucosal assessments can lead to timely interventions, reducing the risk of disease spread in closed systems. -
Improved Smolt Quality:
Monitoring the mucosal health in hatcheries and smolt production systems gives early warning of changes to health and quality. VERIBARR™ is so standardized that it allows direct comparison between hatchery systems and routines to identify best practices or best locations.
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Product Development:
Standardizing the health of the fish before they enter a trial as well as after helps to differentiate if it is the product or the initial health of the fish which has contributed to the outcome. Effects of single ingredients, innovative recipes or pre- and probiotics can be tested for statistically significant differences on barrier health.
Market Differentiation: By promoting feeds that are optimized for mucosal health, companies can differentiate their products in a competitive market. -
Targeted Treatments:
Data on mucosal integrity can guide the development of targeted treatments and vaccines, improving their effectiveness.
Regulatory Compliance:
Providing evidence-based health monitoring supports compliance with increasingly stringent health and safety regulations. VERIBARR™ is especially suitable for measuring gill health. -
Innovation and Integration: Standardizing the health of the fish before they enter a trial as well as after helps to differentiate if it is the technology or the initial health of the fish which has contributed to the outcome. Equipment providers can use data from mucosal health monitoring to develop new technologies that integrate seamlessly with existing aquaculture systems, enhancing their functionality and efficiency.
Custom Solutions:
With specific insights into the health needs of aquaculture operations, providers can tailor equipment solutions to better meet the demands of fish and their farmers. -
Risk Assessment:
Detailed health data enables better risk assessment for investment and insurance purposes, leading to more informed financial decisions.
Sustainability Metrics:
Evidence of proactive health management supports claims of sustainability and welfare, which are crucial for modern aquaculture operations. -
Improved Industry Standards:
as a fish-based health standard, VERIBARR™ has already been globally and digitally applied to over 12 commercially farmed fish species in trials ranging from lab scale to industrial scale and generational studies across production stages in RAS, semi-closed or flowthrough systems and semi-closed and open sea cages. Utilizing detailed health data from monitoring technologies like those offered by Quantidoc enables regulators to establish and update industry standards, ensuring better welfare and environmental compliance.
Evidence-Based Policy Making: Access to comprehensive health monitoring data aids in crafting policies that are more aligned with the actual conditions and needs of the fish produced in aquaculture, leading to more effective regulations.
Why is it critical to protect the frontline barriers?
The frontline barriers of gills, skin and guts are the fish's primary defence against disease and environmental stress. Keeping these barriers strong and responsive is crucial to fish welfare, growth and survival. Without strong barriers, the fish will lack the health and robustness needed for modern and efficient fish farming.
The frontline barriers protect in following three ways:
A physical lubricated barrier - even just a few hundred millimetres is sufficient.
A magazine for dozens of antimicrobial components that ward off viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites.
A natural substrate for the good microflora that the fish need to survive
There is a clear correlation between robust frontline barriers, strong growth, and increased survival.
The importance of healthy and robust frontline barriers for the survival, growth, and welfare of fish is widely recognized in the literature. Over the past decade, QUANTIDOC has conducted over 100 projects globally, demonstrating a clear correlation between robust frontline barriers, strong growth, and increased survival. VERIBARR™ was developed from these projects as the first tool to monitor and maintain frontline barrier health for the growth and welfare of fish
Strong Barriers = Healthy Fish = Better Production
This is how we help the fish farming industry keep their fish healthy & robust
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The Veribarr™ technology provides reliable, unbiased and quantitative assessments of barrier health in gills, skin and guts, helping farmers identify and address potential issues before they become major problems.
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Starting with healthy stock is essential for successful fish farming. That's why we work closely with fish farmers to ensure that their stock is in optimal health from the outset.
Using our Veribarr™ technology, we work with you to determine which routines are affecting the fish positively or negatively and whether they have recovered from a stressor or treatment.
The standard Veribarr protocol means you can directly compare outcomes from any site, time, treatment, species or tissue for its mucosal health and the activity of the barrier defences. -
Continuous monitoring of fish health is essential for maintaining optimal productivity and profitability. Quantidoc provides advanced digital solutions that allow fish farmers to keep a close eye on the health and well-being of their stock. Our technology allows for near real-time health monitoring, enabling farmers to detect and address potential issues BEFORE they become trouble providing early warning information and data.
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Threats to fish health can come from many different sources, including handling, water quality, pathogens, and environmental factors. Veribarr™ reveals how the gills, skin and guts react differently to the same conditions and identify CCPs in production. At QUANTIDOC, we help fish farmers identify potential threats to their fish populations and develop effective corrective measures based on how these factors affect barrier health.
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The thin, slimy barriers are the gatekeepers for health, growth and survival. Using a proprietary, comprehensive and growing database, Quantidoc deploys state-of-the-art analysis to compare current performance with historic measures and future goals. Veribarr™ helps farmers understand the impact of interventions on their stock. Our technology allows for near real-time data collection and analysis, providing farmers with decision support for future-proof operations.
Fish with robust frontline barriers are more likely to have strong growth, increased survival rates, and better overall health, resulting in higher profits for fish farmers.
VERIBARR™
The industry standard for verifying and maintaining the health and robustness of frontline barriers
Stay proactive and take preventative measures before diseases and mortality occur.
Veribarr™ is a proactive and innovative solution for the global aquaculture industry to monitor and maintain frontline barrier health. Veribarr™ quantifies the factories of the proactive slime, providing early warnings of fish barrier health. This enables farmers to identify sources and take appropriate action before problems and mortality occur.
VERIBARR™ covers the following 13 fish species; salmon, trout, seabass, seabream, tilapia, yellowtail, shrimp, cod, halibut, sturgeon, pangasius, and catfish. Our extensive database, consisting of over 15,000 measurements and relevant datasets, allows us to provide tailored solutions for each customer and market in the fish farming industry worldwide.
VERIBARR™ takes you from gut feeling to gut fact
Covering 13 different fish species
Salmon, trout, seabass, seabream, tilapia, yellowtail, shrimp, halibut, tuna, barramundi, lumpfish, wrasse, sculpin
Let us help keep your stock robust & healthy.
At QUANTIDOC, we understand the critical importance of healthy and strong frontline barriers for the success and sustainability of any farming operation. With our advanced Veribarr™ solution, we provide early warnings of the frontline barrier status and enable you to take proactive measures to prevent diseases and mortality before they occur.
Don't leave the health and well-being of your fish stock to chance. Partner with QUATIDOC, implement VERIBARR™ and take advantage of our expertise and cutting-edge technology to ensure the long-term success and profitability of your operation.
Contact us today to learn more about how we can help keep your stock robust and healthy.
The Robust Fish
A self-renewing cell layer of less than 0.07mm keeps the fish fresh, repels hostile but natural components of the water and ensures good health. It’s almost invisible, it’s glistening, it’s smooth and complex. We have written this little book to respect this brave, ultra-thin barrier and its tireless struggle to keep the fish healthy and robust.
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Dag Nesfossen (CEO)
dn@quantidoc.com
+47 958 44 252
Thormøhlensgate 53b
5006 Bergen
NORWAY