The Institute of Aquaculture was commissioned by the Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum (SARF) to carry out a study on the “Technical Considerations of closed containment sea pen production for some life stages of salmonids”.
Publication - A Risk Benefit Analysis of Mariculture as a means to Reduce the Impacts of Terrestrial Production of Food and Energy
The Sustainable Aquaculture Research Group worked with ABPMer to produce this report for the Scottish Aquaculture Research Forum and WWF-UK. The study was commissioned to investigate whether the pressure on land and freshwater for future food and energy resources, and impacts on the climate, related to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, may be reduced through expansion of global mariculture.