Centre for Innovative Aquaculture Production

不断增长的水产养殖业已成为全球经济的驱动力和重要的食物来源。 加拿大的每个省都有自己的特色水产养殖业;在安大略，有七个物种被养殖，每年生产超过8,000吨的食物。 位于安大略林赛的弗莱明学院弗罗斯特校区拥有两个鱼类孵化场和一个小型稳定的水产养殖研究项目，该项目完全嵌入课程。拟议的能力建设研究将使弗莱明更好地服务于当地产业的应用研究需求，并转向为国家产业提供研究支持，其中包括不同的养殖物种和环境。应用研究将开始与现有的合作伙伴，短期目标是提高饲料转化率（FCR），制定饲料策略，优化功能性饲料添加剂的使用，以改善性能指标。随着研究计划的扩大和成熟，将开发与水产养殖业其他方面相关的项目，包括影响养殖鱼类生长的环境条件（考虑到气候变化导致加拿大沃茨变暖），鱼类养殖中的育种和选择，可持续性以及孵化操作的技术开发。 为了更好地为水产养殖业提供应用研究，弗莱明学院需要新的专用基础设施和扩大研究系统。NSERC-CFI联合提案将资助弗莱明的行业研究合作伙伴所需的基本设备，以完成探索新技术，新技术和创新方法的研究项目。

The growing aquaculture industry has become a global economic driver and an important source of food. Every province in Canada has an aquaculture industry with its own specialty; in Ontario, seven species are farmed, resulting in over 8,000 tonnes of food produced each year. Fleming College's Frost Campus in Lindsay, Ontario is home to two fish hatcheries and a small, steady aquaculture research program that is fully embedded into course curriculum. The proposed capacity-building research will allow Fleming to better serve the applied research needs of the local industry and move to providing research support to the national industry, which includes different farmed species and environments. The applied research will begin with existing partners with short-term goals of improving feed conversion ratios (FCR), developing feed strategies, and optimizing the use of functional feed additives for improved performance indicators. As the research program expands and matures, projects related to other aspects of the aquaculture industry will be developed, including environmental conditions affecting the growth of farmed fish (considering the warming of Canada's waters due to climate change), breeding and selection in fish farming, sustainability, and technology development for hatchery operations. To better serve the aquaculture industry with applied research, new dedicated infrastructure and an expansion of research systems are needed at Fleming College. The joint NSERC-CFI proposal will fund essential equipment needed by Fleming's industry research partners to enable the completion of research projects exploring new techniques, technologies, and innovative approaches.