Home Office project licences

Here you can access summaries of our Home Office Project Licences which describe our ASPA regulated science. They describe why and how the work is being undertaken, including how Replacement, Reduction and Refinement (3Rs) will be implemented.

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Current licences:

Project Licence 'Research into resistance to infectious fish disease using genome altered fish' was granted in 2025.

Project Licence 'Identifying the factors affecting diadromous and freshwater fish populations' was granted in 2025.

Project Licence Development and validation of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) was granted in 2024.

Project Licence 'Research into the susceptibility of European grayling and pink salmon to infectious haematopoietic necrosis virus' was granted in 2024.

Project Licence 'Chlorine toxicity effects on marine fish species' was granted in 2024.

Project Licence 'Fish Movements and Behaviour' was granted in 2024.

Project Licence 'Production of antisera and immune cells in fish' was granted in 2020.

Previous licences:

Project Licence 'Investigating the genetic basis of salmonid resistance to sea lice' was granted in 2023.

Project Licences 'Assessment of fish stocks and impacts of environmental and anthropogenic factors', ' Factors affecting fish populations', ' Migrations and behaviours of fish', 'Research into infectious fish disease' and 'Impacts of renewable energy systems on farmed finfish' were granted in 2019.

Project Licence ‘Fish Movements and Behaviour’ and 'Safety and efficacy assessment for fish medicines' were granted in 2018.