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

农业技术促进会为一个为期36个月的项目提供了支持，通过研究扩大水产养殖的新角度来解决粮食安全方面的根本挑战；包括一种目前尚未开发的物种，欧洲龙虾。这一物种的价值（按体积计算）是英国所有物种中最高的，并且出现了严重的供应短缺。海洋容器养殖（SBCC）展示了一种低碳饲养方式的潜力，无需饲料成本。该项目将使用专门为该物种设计的容器，在项目的早期阶段开发，以评估性能并开发SBCC系统的整体应用。该项目将运营一个试点规模的龙虾养殖场，以收集实际的、运营的、环境的、生物的、工程的、经济的和社会的数据，这些数据可用于开发一个重要的工具，以鼓励和指导未来的投资。该财团将由国家龙虾孵化场领导，由两家中小企业、两家高等企业和一家政府机构组成。

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.