Seafood R&D Programme

Key Objectives

The Key Objectives Of This Programme Are To assist the seafood sector and entrepreneurs in researching, developing and testing new technologies, products and platforms which lead to increased values for the sector;
To deepen industry’s R&D base;
To enable Seafood SMEs to access expertise in innovation to ensure long-term sustainability;
To yield positive value for state investment in terms of environmental sustainability, viable businesses and employment;

Projects

• Knowledge transfer and mapping of marine and aquaculture ingredient opportunities.
• Development of techno-functional and health ingredients from marine and aquaculture processing by-products, underutilised species and seaweeds.
• Dietary intervention trials.
• Investigation of product quality, formulation and scale-up technologies.
• Development and testing of commercially relevant and Innovative in-factory, on-board and on-farm processing technologies.
• Design, trial and testing of Industry 4.0, Sensors, IoT and Digitisation Technologies.