Wednesday, August 9, 2017
With sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean already climbing, scientists are predicting Atlantic Canada’s $400 million salmon aquaculture industry could be wiped out within the next 25 years.
But a $4.4M collaboration between biologists at University of Waterloo, Memorial University and the Universities of Guelph and Prince Edward Island could be the key to helping the industry adapt with a superior salmon stock that can survive in higher water temperatures.
The project “Mitigating the Impact of Climate-Related Challenges on Salmon Aquaculture,” or MICCSA, is led by Memorial University and funded by Cooke Aquaculture, Novartis, Somru BioScience and the Centre for Aquaculture Technologies.