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

大西洋海参(ASC)是一家令人自豪的加拿大海鲜供应商，专门加工从干净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，再加上全球产量和贸易的增加，在其感知的药用价值和科学证明的营养价值方面都具有价值。在此背景下，大西洋海参在中国、韩国和日本文化中已成为一种有价值的商品，代表着新斯科舍省一个具有很高出口潜力的行业。随着日益增长的市场需求和对最先进技术在农村种植的渴望，ASC和新斯科舍社区学院(NSCC)之间的这一新合作伙伴关系将探索创新的自动化技术选择，以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的合作能够增强他们的工艺流程，提高他们的生产率。还将为知识翻译提供机会，使该部门的其他公司受益，目标是提高该区域针对出口市场的整体质量和生产率。因此，该项目的成功成果具有巨大的潜力，有助于保持新斯科舍省作为高品质鱼类和海鲜世界领导者的地位，从而造福于大西洋加拿大的海鲜行业。

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.