£1.6m secured for fish health research

The Sustainable Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has announced its support for three innovation projects aimed at enhancing finfish health and welfare in response to a changing climate and other emerging challenges.

The projects concerned will address three major biological threats to farmed fish: micro-jellyfish, harmful algal blooms (HABs) and proliferative kidney disease (PKD).

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Top scientists join SAIC board

THE Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has appointed five industry experts to its board, to provide objective scientific advice on future projects. The five new members of the Independent Scientific Panel are Dr Lydia Brown MBE, Dr Hans Bjelland, Dr Heather Moore, Dr Clive Talbot and Dr Hamish Rodger. The panel is made up of…

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SAIC invites bids for research funds

THE Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has announced significant new funding for industry led research projects. SAIC has £2.9 million in its project pot to spend over the next five years and hopes to attract at least a further £3.5 million investment. It will consider funding proposals up to the value of £440,000 (full project…

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Algae early warning system ‘boost for farmers’

AN early warning system to detect harmful plankton and algae is being developed in Scotland to help tackle one of the biggest challenges to fish health. A consortium – including technology company Otaq, the University of Aberdeen, SAIC (Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre), and Scottish Internet of Things centre CENSIS – is creating a low-cost sensor…

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