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UN GC action platform for Sustainable Ocean Business moves forward
Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre’s RAS facilities ready to accelerate and support growth
he Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business, launched in June, has made a threeyear plan for its work on the role of the ocean in achieving the 17 sustainability goals. A roundtable on Sustainable Ocean Business takes place in New York during the regular session of the UN General Assembly and the UN Global Compact Leader Summit. Partners to the platforms and the Action Platform Secretariat will over the coming days address each of the areas important for a comprehensive overview on the role of the oceans. Cermaq’s approach through many years has been to engage in collaboration to address material sustainability issues in the aquaculture industry, specifically the salmon industry and value chain. However, global ocean challenges cannot be solved without multi-stakeholder dialogue, between government, business, research institutions and civil society. The work of the Action Platform for Sustainable Ocean Business will address four key areas, ocean business principles, in order to promote ocean health and productivity and ocean frameworks, to focus upon how regulations and enforcements support businesses. The third area has been termed ocean business cases, discussing how businesses can establish sustainable oceans and the final point is ocean opportunity, wherein business opportunities to help the SDGs are discussed.
kretting have recently expanded its Lerang Research Station in Stavanger, Norway, including a state-ofthe-art recirculation hall. The new facilities have been created to enable researchers to conduct experiments and tests on its latest closed system feed formulations in strict environmental conditions. The facility comprises of 12 independent recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), which will primarily be used for salmon product testing, alongside enabling research on feed and formulations. “Attempts to mitigate the biological risks associated with traditional aquaculture is leading to a lot of momentum for closed fish production systems, and this is happening all over the world”, ays Dr Paulo Mira Fernandes, RAS expert at Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre and International Director on the Aquaculture Engineering Society Board of Directors. “"Skretting has been operating within this space for a long time; we brought the first recirc-specific diet to the market in 2009. The knowledge and expertise that we continue to amass, along with the R&D facilities that we have in place will prove invaluable as more and more of these systems come on stream”, he continues. “Skretting has multiple research facilities dedicated to closed containment systems. As well as developing feeds that can help optimise our customer’s production, we have built an unprecedented knowledge bank of the most effective ways to manage and apply this technology. We know that feeding the fish means feeding the system, and our knowledge in this area ensures that we can help our customers maximise their production capacity”, concludes Fernandes.
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6 | November 2018 - International Aquafeed