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In the next 25 years, the FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS expects the annual demand for aquatic products to surpass the classical fishery’s capacity for harvest by 55 million tons.
We are witnessing a metamorphosis of the fishing industry towards cultivated species and the use of evolved technologies, with all this implies in terms of knowledge, technologies and expertise.
Industry profile
The Gaspésie is a propitious region for the development of aquaculture. The many bays and coves offer appropriate locations for the culture of mussels, oysters, scallops and urchins. The land’s interior is rich in unexploited potential for water, facilitating the raising of certain varieties of fish. Gaspé’s cold waters diminish the number of diseases affecting different species, and furnish a high quality product.
Research and development activities in marine biotechnology follow aquaculture’s evolution closely, and the solutions resulting from this mutually advantageous complementarity extend to other areas of research, such as agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as the protection and remediation of environmental pollution problems. Marinard Biotech, located in Gaspé, is developing remedial strategies and products issued from the transformation of fishing industry residues.
Active economic sectors
The use of the tools of modern biotechnology to improve the health, reproduction, development, growth and the total well-being of cultivated aquatic organisms; and promotion of the interdisciplinary development of environmental systems which are sensitive and sustainable and which permit an extensive commercialization of aquaculture. Use of natural substances or strategies to control biofilm infections on medical implants or prostheses.
All that touches on the maintenance of the environmental ecology of aquaculture installations will find a global market for the knowledge, procedures and products developed.
Aquacultural activities in collaboration with, and with investment from, countries lacking in adequate nonpolluted marine resources. |
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