Grants and Contributions:

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

Louisbourg Seafoods Limited harvests (April to October) and sells 5 millions lbs of Snow Crab (Chionoecetesx000D
opilio) annually. The commercially desired product are the legs and shoulders generating resultant wastex000D
streams from the bodies of the snow crabs (approximately 1/3 of the crab). Currently Louisbourg Seafoods paysx000D
for snow crab waste to be landfilled and they are interested in alternative, more environmentally sustainablex000D
practices. In a landfill, snow crab residues will decompose and generate some small amount of fixed carbon,x000D
however much of the carbon is released into the environment as CO2 during decomposition and aside fromx000D
some microbial benefits none of the remaining interesting chemicals are utilized during landfill decomposition.x000D
The chemical composition of the snow crab includes a high content of protein (34.2% dw) and essential aminox000D
acids; they also have fat (17.1% dw), with a high proportion of polyunsaturated fatty acids and approximatelyx000D
28.5% dw minerals (calcium, phosphorous, and magnesium) making this waste stream very intriguing as ax000D
starting biomass for the generation of biochar that has a more interesting and likely more valuable chemicalx000D
composition than forestry biochars.