Robot will ‘transform fish vaccination’

By Jenny Hjul | January 28, 2020

A STIRLING based aquaculture company has won funding to create a ‘transformational’ fish vaccinating robot. Aqualife, in partnership with the government backed Agri-EPI Centre, secured £250,000 from the Seafood Innovation Fund, awarded by the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), to develop and launch the robot by the end of next year. The…

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Project unlocks lobster rearing potential

By Jenny Hjul | May 21, 2019

A PIONEERING project rearing lobsters in new sea based systems has shown great potential, say the partners involved. Led by the National Lobster Hatchery (NLH) in Padstow, Cornwall, the three-year initiative – named Lobster Grower 2 (LG2) – used sea based container culture systems, which required no feed inputs. More than 26,000 lobsters were deployed…

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