Novel Canadian Sea Cucumber Production Technology and System Design with Atlantic Sea Cucumber Ltd.

大西洋海参（ASC）是一家自豪的加拿大海鲜供应商，专门加工从清洁和寒冷的大西洋捕获的野生加拿大海参。这种产品具有很高的商业价值，加上全球生产和贸易的不断增加，其价值既体现在人们所认为的药用价值上，也体现在它所能提供的经科学证明的营养益处上。在这种情况下，大西洋海参已成为中国、韩国和日本文化中的一种有价值的商品，代表了新斯科舍省的一个高出口潜力部门。随着市场需求的增长和对最先进技术在农村环境中的应用的渴望，ASC和新斯科舍省社区学院（NSCC）之间的这种新的合作伙伴关系将探索创新自动化技术的选择，这将提高海参产品的经济性和质量。NSCC的工程技术应用研究小组专门从事产品开发和工艺优化，并配备了产品设计和制造资产。这些资产将使与ASC的合作能够增强其流程并提高其生产力。知识转化也将有机会使该行业的其他公司受益，目标是提高该地区的整体质量和生产力，面向出口市场。因此，该项目的成功结果具有巨大的潜力，有利于大西洋加拿大的海鲜产业，有助于保持新斯科舍省作为世界领先的高质量鱼类和海鲜的地位。

Atlantic Sea Cucumber (ASC) is a proud Canadian seafood supplier specializing in processing wild Canadian sea cucumber caught from the clean and cold Atlantic Ocean. This product has high commercial value coupled with increasing global production and trade and has value both in its perceived medicinal value and the scientifically proven nutritional benefits it can offer. In this context, Atlantic sea cucumber has become a valuable commodity in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese cultures, representing a sector of high export potential for Nova Scotia. With an increasing market demand and a desire for state-of-the-art technology for implantation in rural context, this new partnership between ASC and the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) will explore options for innovative automation techniques that will improve the economics and quality of sea cucumber products. NSCC's Engineered Technologies Applied Research group specializes in product development and process optimization and are equipped with product design and manufacturing assets. These assets will enable the collaboration with ASC to enhance their process flow and increase their productivity. Opportunity will also be available for knowledge translation to benefit other companies in the sector, with the goal to elevate overall quality and productivity in the region, directed to export markets. A successful outcome in this project therefore has a tremendous potential to benefit Atlantic Canada's seafood industry, by contributing in maintaining the position of Nova Scotia as the world leader for high quality fish and seafood.