Aquaculture
Management and Development
Our services cover farmed fish and shellfish in both marine and freshwater applications.
We use our scientific knowledge and management experience to assist with:
- Increasing productivity and yields
- Improving fish health and welfare
- Disease diagnosis and control
- Ensuring products are fit for consumption
- Environmental impacts of fish farming operations
- Interactions between farmed and wild fish stocks
- Policy and legislative advice
- Trading and commerce developments
Institutional Strengthening
We play a strong role in international institutional development in the subject of seafood safety by hosting a wide variety of study visits, studentships, visiting scientists, collaborative projects and by organising training courses and workshops in the UK and overseas.
We advise enforcement agencies, policy makers and governments on legislation development and implementing control and enforcement measures to manage new and expanding aquaculture industries. We review existing public health measures and make recommendations for reform to meet international trading standards and create trading opportunities.
Our consultancy and research services cover:
