Dunedin set for aquaculture role
PA Dunedin The University of Otago will form an aquaculture centre to co-ordinate and develop marine and freshwater sciences research. The Vice-Chancellor, Dr Robin Irvine, said the university had the facilities and resources to provide data and research on projects such as commercial salmon-rearing, musselfarming, seaweed research, and other areas with potential. “The centre will provide a channel through which funds could be attracted for research projects,” he said. “At present many firms with aquaculture interests look overseas for assistance when considerable
expertise exists here. “An aquaculture research centre at Otago would bring together this diversity of experience and expertise and provide a structure within which it could be applied to aquaculture in a co-ordinated way,” Dr Irvine said. Professor ‘ Margaret Loutit, chairman of the university’s science and technology centre, said Otago was in a strong position to be the national centre for research in aquaculture. There was world interest in the subject and there were shortages in many of the substances which could be grown in New Zealand.
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