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Our Vision:
Livestock Research Branch: World-class partner in delivering applied and innovative solutions for a sustainable and vibrant Alberta.
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Mission Statement:
Enable the Alberta livestock industry to use research-based knowledge and technology to enhance competitiveness.
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About Us
Who we are
What we do
Our team conducts original, applied aquaculture research and education and outreach activities focusing on:
- Investigating aquaponics, the ecologically friendly combination of fish and plant production
- Investigating the replacement of fish meal with alternative proteins for a sustainable fish feed
- Establishing Alberta Coho salmon for a table food production industry.
- Growing Alberta’s industry with new species and strains of market fish.
Why we do it
- The continued growth of Alberta’s private commercial aquaculture industry.
- World markets for healthy seafood products are growing while wild fish supplies are declining.
- Canadian market movement away from coastal net-pens to sustainable multi-trophic and contained inland systems is evident.
The Aquaculture Research group works in close collaboration with the Aquaculture Centre of Excellence (ACE).More information on the ACE;
Current projects
- Alberta Innovates - Bio Solutions 2014-2016: Addressing food quality challenges in Alberta's aquaculture industry.
- Import and Quarantine Isolation of Barramundi (Lates calcarifer), a potential new species for commercial culture in Alberta
- NSERC Innovation Enhancement Grant, Optimizing and Expanding Commercial Aquaponics Systems, Lethbridge College.
Some of our previous research projects include:
- Enhancing fatty acid profiles in fish reared on plant based diets (2013 - 2015).
- Aquaculture Innovation and Market Access Program (AIMAP), Establishing Local Sustainable Coho Salmon (O. kisutch) Production as a New Diversified Product Within the Alberta Agriculture Industry with Tri-Gen Fish Improvement Ltd.
- ALMA, Flow Monitoring and Control for more Efficient Production in Contained Aquaculture/Aquaponics Systems, CDC-South.
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For more information about the content of this document, contact Miranda Smit.
This information published to the web on November 17, 2014.
Last Reviewed/Revised on March 15, 2016.
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