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. 

Reduced Mortality Rates: Early identification and mitigation of health issues translate into higher survival rates.

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.