News
January 2010
Spring 2009
Coastland Fabricating & Design Group Ltd. has been chosen
by Dr. Steven Cross of Aquametrix Research and Kyuquot Seafoods Ltd.
to design, build and install new technology pen systems for his
research farm in Kyuquot Sound on the North
West coast of Vancouver Island.
As a
recent recipient of the BC Innovation Award for Sustainable
Ecological Aquaculture (SEA) system, Dr. Cross’s current research
program focuses on the environmental and socio-economic aspects of
integrated, Multi-Tropic Aquaculture (IMTA). This form of
aquaculture (polyculture), while rooted in centuries of practise in
Asia, has only recently been considered as a potential
SEA-system process in the world of modernized agri-food production.
IMTA systems, by definition, are designed so as to capitalize on the
organic waste stream associated with a ‘fed’ component (fish), with
waste particulates used to support a filtration component
(shellfish) and the dissolved nutrient fractions used by a plant (macrophyte)
component. The pen systems being designed and built by
Coastland are used to contain and harvest the shellfish and
represents the first licensed facility of its kind in Canada.
Kyuquot Seafoods has just
been nominated for the 2010 Global Seafood Champion Award through
the exclusive NGO organization (Gloab Seafood Alliance - SeaWeb).
To see more about this unique and award winning research,
visit pacificsea-lab.com
