UK Aquaculture Initiative Network. Aquaculture Research Collaborative Hub -UK (ARCH-UK)

2016年，英国水产养殖业为价值63亿英镑的英国海产品产业贡献了约6亿英镑。英国海鲜市场很复杂，包括通过进口野生鱼类和出口野生和养殖海鲜而获得的巨大附加值。在英国，英格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的水产养殖部门共生产19,000公吨贝类和9,200公吨鳟鱼，产量主要来自中小企业。苏格兰是大西洋鲑鱼的主要生产国（163,000吨，全球第三大生产国），该行业高度整合并以出口为重点。在苏格兰，鳟鱼（6000吨）和贝类（6300吨）的产量也很可观。在英格兰、威尔士和爱尔兰，水产养殖业也很重要，而且还在不断扩大，最引人注目的是贝类，英国最大的单一贝类养殖场位于英格兰西南部。为了使英国在这个快速增长的行业中保持竞争力，至关重要的是，该行业的扩张得到高质量、创新研究的支持，以更好地了解养殖鱼类和贝类的基本生物学、健康和环境相互作用，并确保可持续的未来。在这项申请中，建议建立一个单一的水产养殖网络，称为英国水产养殖研究合作中心（ARCH-UK），通过两个小组，鳍鱼水产养殖小组和贝类水产养殖小组来运作，以支持科学知识和技术能力的发展，帮助为阻碍英国水产养殖业所有部门增长的共同和具体问题提供解决方案。ARCH将建立一个由学术研究人员和相关企业组成的社区，以促进合作活动，帮助确定和开发新的方法来应对重大研究和创新挑战，并帮助为英国水产养殖部门带来关键利益。该网络将吸引来自生物和环境科学等主要学科的研究人员，并将积极地与来自工程学、经济学、社会科学、遥感和计算建模的研究人员合作。

The UK aquaculture sector contributes around £600 million to a UK seafood industry worth at £6.3 billion in 2016. The UK seafood market is complex and includes large added value through wild fish imports, and both wild and farmed seafood exports. Within the UK the aquaculture sector in England, Wales and N. Ireland collectively produce 19,000 metric tons (mt) of shellfish and 9,200 mt of trout, with production coming mainly from SMEs. Scotland is a major producer of Atlantic salmon (>163,000 mt; third largest producer globally) and the industry is both highly consolidated and export focused. In Scotland there is also significant trout (6,000 mt) and shellfish (6,300 mt) production. There is also a significant and expanding aquaculture industry in England, Wales and Ireland, most notably for shellfish with the largest single UK shellfish farm in Southwest England.In order for the UK to remain competitive within this rapidly growing sector it is essential that the expansion of the industry is supported by high quality, innovative research to better understand the basic biology, health and environmental interactions of farmed fish and shellfish and to ensure a sustainable future. In this application it is proposed that a single aquaculture network called the Aquaculture Research Collaborative Hub-UK (ARCH-UK) will be established operating through two groups, the Finfish Aquaculture Group and the Shellfish Aquaculture Group to support the development of scientific knowledge and technological capability to help to provide solutions to the shared and specific issues preventing growth in all sectors in the UK aquaculture industry.ARCH will develop a community of academic based researchers and related businesses to foster collaborative activities to help identify and develop new approaches to tackle major research and innovation challenges and to help deliver key benefits to the UK aquaculture sector. The network will draw in researchers from the main disciplines of biological and environmental sciences and will actively engage with researchers from engineering, economics, social science, remote sensing and computational modelling.