Agri-EPI Centre, in partnership with Otter Ferry Seafish and Innovate UK, has launched a new Marine Aquaculture Innovation Centre (MAIC) on Loch Fyne. It aims to help drive sustainable solutions and improve efficiency for the UK aquaculture industry.
Guests of the launch event were welcomed by managing director of Otter Ferry Seafish, Alastair Barge, and CEO of Agri-EPI Centre, Dave Ross, who introduced the new centre.
“The facility is scaled and configured to bridge gaps identified by industry, including testing of instrumentation and validation of operational welfare indicators, and other trials, under controlled conditions with near market-sized farmed fish. The proposed investment is industry-led – responding to industry demand and taking design and direction from that demand,” said Ross…
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