June 23, 2014 — Dr. Deepika Dave, a research scientist with the Marine Institute (MI) of Memorial University is currently working to address one of the key issues in the province’s aquaculture industry – what do to do with salmon waste.
Dr. Dave is leading the Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development’s (CASD) marine biodiesel research team in creating biodiesel and other value added products from salmon waste.
Dr. Dave said officials with the provincial Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture (DFA) and Environment Canada are saying that we will have to generate more landfill sites to handle salmon waste as the industry continues to grow.
According to an article by the MI, by-product and waste generated from salmon aquaculture includes processing waste and mortalities.
The processing of salmon generates large amounts of solid wastes, up to 45 to 50 percent of the body weight of the processed salmon.
Research from the DFA has revealed that 12 percent of salmon aquaculture production within the province is turned out as waste every year due to disease and other factors which includes mortality.
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