ShellEye: Satellite-based water quality bulletins for shellfish farms to support management decisions

ShellEye：贝类养殖场基于卫星的水质公告，支持管理决策

• 批准号: BB/M026698/1
• 负责人: Peter Miller
• 金额: $ 31.96万
• 依托单位: Plymouth Marine Laboratory
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FM026698%2F1
• 关键词: ShellEye; Satellite; based; water; quality

This project will use ocean-viewing satellites together with weather forecasts in order to help monitor the quality of water surrounding shellfish farms. These tools will help the shellfish farmers make decisions, for example when to harvest their crop to avoid contamination in nearby water.The farming or cultivation of seafood (e.g. shellfish) termed 'aquaculture' is an important worldwide source of protein. As global populations continue to rise the need for aquaculture as an important source of food will only increase. So increasing aquaculture output will help to provide food security for future generations. So approaches to help ensure efficient and sustainable aquaculture farming (e.g. towards reducing farm costs and energy use, and ensuring supply) will clearly help the industry to expand to feed future populations. Pollution events that reduce the quality of the water within an aquaculture farm, both from humans and naturally occurring, can significantly impact aquaculture farms. These events can cause the loss of stock (ie shellfish have to be disposed of), harvesting to stop (causing a loss in supply to the customer), illness or in extreme cases death (through humans eating contaminated food).Water quality in and around the aquaculture farms in the UK and Europe are monitored using a series of tests based on collecting water samples and analyzing the flesh of the seafood being farmed. This sampling is carried out by government agencies. Due to financial constraints and complexity of this sampling, it is not possible to take samples everyday and there is a delay between the samples being collected and the results being given to the farmer. The farmers themselves often do not have any way of measuring the water quality within their own farms, so they have to rely on the monitoring provided by the agencies, even if it is sporadic and the results are delayed. Whereas up to date information on water quality would help farmers make decisions about when and how much to harvest. Information about the quality of the water offshore from their farm would help warn farmers of possible future water quality problems within their farm.There are many approaches that have been developed by scientists to use satellites to provide salmon and trout farmers with information on their local water quality. Scientists have also looked at the links between reduced water quality and changes in the weather conditions. For instance satellites are routinely used for monitoring water quality in and around Salmon farms in Scotland, and simple models that relate environmental conditions like rainfall and sunlight to reduced water quality have been developed for the south west UK. These approaches and tools have yet to be made available to shellfish farms in a way that is simple for farmers to use and exploit. This project will extend the approaches developed for Salmon farmers to be specific for shellfish farmers. It will develop and extend existing methods for using satellites for studying water quality in offshore and coastal farms. It will also extend and develop simple tools that shellfish farmers can use to predict short-term variations in water quality, based on their local weather conditions and forecasts. A simple method to provide this information in a timely manner through regular 'news bulletins' to farmers using text messages and emails will also be tested. Importantly, all of this work will be carried out in conjunction with shellfish farmers, allowing them to provide feedback on the project and ensure that the results are highly relevant to their needs.

该项目将使用海洋观测卫星和天气预报，以帮助监测贝类养殖场周围的水质。这些工具将帮助贝类养殖户做出决定，例如何时收获作物以避免附近水域的污染。被称为“水产养殖”的海产品（例如贝类）的养殖或养殖是全球重要的蛋白质来源。随着全球人口的持续增长，对水产养殖作为重要食物来源的需求只会增加。因此，增加水产养殖产量将有助于为子孙后代提供粮食安全。因此，有助于确保高效和可持续水产养殖的方法（例如降低养殖成本和能源使用，并确保供应）显然将有助于该行业扩大以养活未来的人口。降低水产养殖场内水质的污染事件，无论是来自人类还是自然发生的，都会对水产养殖场产生重大影响。这些事件可能导致库存损失（即贝类必须被处理），停止捕捞（导致客户供应损失），疾病或在极端情况下死亡（通过人类食用受污染的食物）。英国和欧洲的水产养殖场及其周围的水质通过一系列基于收集水样和分析养殖海鲜肉的测试进行监测。这种抽样是由政府机构进行的。由于财政限制和这种抽样的复杂性，不可能每天取样，而且在收集样品和向农民提供结果之间存在延迟。农民自己往往没有任何办法测量自己农场内的水质，因此他们不得不依赖机构提供的监测，即使是零星的监测，结果也会延迟。而关于水质的最新信息将有助于农民决定何时收获和收获多少。有关其农场近海水质的信息将有助于警告农民其农场内未来可能出现的水质问题。科学家已经开发了许多方法来使用卫星为鲑鱼和鳟鱼养殖户提供有关其当地水质的信息。科学家们还研究了水质下降与天气条件变化之间的联系。例如，卫星通常用于监测苏格兰鲑鱼养殖场及其周围的水质，并为英国西南部开发了将降雨和阳光等环境条件与水质下降相关的简单模型。这些方法和工具尚未以农民易于使用和利用的方式提供给贝类养殖场。该项目将把为鲑鱼养殖户制定的方法推广到贝类养殖户。它将发展和推广利用卫星研究近海和沿海农场水质的现有方法。它还将推广和开发简单的工具，使贝类养殖户可以根据当地的天气条件和预报，预测水质的短期变化。还将测试一种简单的方法，通过短信和电子邮件定期向农民提供“新闻简报”，及时提供这一信息。重要的是，所有这些工作都将与贝类养殖户一起进行，使他们能够对项目提供反馈，并确保结果与他们的需求高度相关。

项目成果

Design and operation of a low-cost and compact autonomous buoy system for use in coastal aquaculture and water quality monitoring.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaeng.2017.12.002
• 发表时间: 2018-01
• 期刊: Aquacultural engineering
• 影响因子: 4
• 作者: Schmidt W;Raymond D;Parish D;Ashton IGC;Miller PI;Campos CJA;Shutler JD
• 通讯作者: Shutler JD

Satellite monitoring of harmful algal blooms (HABs) to protect the aquaculture industry. In: Applications of Satellite Earth Observations: Serving Society, Science & Industry

卫星监测有害藻华 (HAB) 以保护水产养殖业。

• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Miller, PI

HABreports: Online Early Warning of Harmful Algal and Biotoxin Risk for the Scottish Shellfish and Finfish Aquaculture Industries

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.631732
• 发表时间: 2021-04-09
• 期刊: FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Davidson, Keith;Whyte, Callum;Swan, Sarah
• 通讯作者: Swan, Sarah

Environmental control of harmful dinoflagellates and diatoms in a fjordic system.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2017.09.002
• 发表时间: 2017-11
• 期刊: Harmful algae
• 影响因子: 6.6
• 作者: Ruth F. Paterson;S. McNeill;Elaine Mitchell;Thomas L. Adams;Sarah C. Swan;Dave Clarke;P. I. Miller