Lobster Grower 2 - Assessing the technical, economic and environmental potential for a novel candiadate aquaculture species.

一个为期36个月的项目获得了农业技术催化剂的支持，该项目通过研究扩大水产养殖的新角度来解决基本粮食安全挑战;包括目前未开发的物种，欧洲龙虾。这个物种命令的最高价值（体积）的任何物种降落在英国，并表现出显着的供应不足。基于海洋的养殖，在容器（SBCC）表现出潜力的低碳形式的饲养，没有饲料成本。该项目将使用专门为该物种设计的容器，在早期项目中开发，以评估性能并开发SBCC系统的整体应用。该项目将运行一个试点规模的龙虾养殖场，收集实用、操作、环境、生物、工程、经济和社会数据，这些数据可用于开发一个重要工具，以鼓励和告知未来的投资。该财团将由国家龙虾孵化场领导，由两个中小企业，两个高等教育机构和一个政府机构组成。

Support from the Agri-tech catalyst has been secured for a 36 month project, addressing fundamentalfood security challenges by examining novel angles to expand aquaculture; to include a species notcurrently exploited, the European Lobster. This species commands the highest value (by volume) of anyspecies landed in the UK and exhibits a significant supply deficit. Sea based culture, in containers (SBCC)exhibits the potential for a low carbon form of rearing with no feed costs. The project will use containersspecifically designed for the species, developed in an early stage project, to assess performance anddevelop holistic application of SBCC systems. The project will run a pilot scale lobster farm to gatherpractical, operational, environmental, biological, engineering, economic and social data that can be usedto develop an essential tool to encourage and inform future investment. The consortium will be led bythe National Lobster Hatchery and consists of two SME's, two HEI's and a Government Agency.