Grants and Contributions:

Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2018-2019)

Given the global pressures on our common food sources including population growth, economic advancementx000D
and natural resource depletion, aquaculture is well placed to enhance nutritious food production and bolsterx000D
food security. While the global aquatic harvest through wild capture has essentially flatlined since the 1990's,x000D
aquaculture is an industry that has grown continuously, supplementing the stagnation of naturally source fishx000D
production and thereby keeping this high-quality source of protein within financial reach of ordinaryx000D
Canadians. However, the difficulty of gaining approval for new sites for aquaculture is a severe limiting factorx000D
in Canada and it is important that those have been approved be optimized for productivity. Thus farx000D
optimization has often been ad hoc in industrial settings and reliant on the intuition of workers in the field.x000D
There is a clearly stated desire from industry participants for more real-time data and means of analyzing thatx000D
data to maximize production and minimize costs. This requires a two-fold effort: the development of cost andx000D
time-effective hardware to gather the data and capable software to visualize and analyze the gathered data.x000D
This work will focus on the design of visual analytics for real-time aquaculture optimization. This will involvex000D
the design of interfaces and visualizations to better analyze real-time aquaculture data and discover as yetx000D
unknown insights and relationships. This in turn will lead to product improvements that will enable farmersx000D
can make decisions around both feeding and fish health.