Services

Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-PEIMA is the reference experimental unit at INRAE for research on all life stages of trout, mostly in physiology (reproduction, growth, behaviour, adaptation, etc.), genetics and nutrition. It offers a hatchery, 156 fry tanks of 200-400 L, 156 tanks of 2 m3 and 26 tanks of 28 m3, a behavioural study room with 20 tanks of 500 L and 16 video cameras, a semi-industrial recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) of 10 tanks of 6 m3 linked with an aquaponic system, a RAS unit of 3 independent thermoregulated rooms (6°C to 18°C) linked with an aquaponics green house.

INRAE-PEIMA also has a world unique collection of trout lines with original characteristics like growth, sex-ratio, fat content, spawning date, adaptation to plant-based diets, disease resistance, including 20 isogenic lines of rainbow trout. INRAE-PEIMA allows experimentation on all stages from eggs to large trout, including processing in a specialized facility. Access to trout isogenic lines requires a specific collaboration agreement.

PEIMA hosts all INRAE research teams working on farmed salmonids (which can bring scientific support to visiting scientists) but also other research organizations or universities in France and Europe (e.g. Universities of Wageningen, Göteborg, Stirling, Vigo, and South Bohemia).

Bioresources available

On-site access to rainbow trout is available on our fish nutrition platforms. The full life cycle of rainbow trout is also available, allowing experimental design with broodstock, alevin and juvenile nutrition.

Support offered

In addition to the above information, technical support for daily experimental work and technical help for samplings will be provided to all users. For specific needs, INRAE scientists using the infrastructures (genetics, nutrition, physiology, pathology) will assist users for experimental design and data interpretation.

Modality of access

Each user is expected to stay 6 days, typically 3 days at the beginning of the experiment to finalize the technical protocol details and start the experiment and 3 days at the end of the experiment for final measurements and sampling.