Tunicate Control at Mussel Farms
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Bio-Resources engineering
Engineering for the industries that work with living things.
Aquaculture, fisheries, food processing and agriculture: site selection, moorings, process design, wastewater, gear design and feasibility studies.
Overview
New Brunswick's aquaculture industry is worth close to $1.
4 billion a year, and we have been engineering for it, and for fisheries, food processors and farms, since 1989. Bio-resources engineering is an uncommon specialty that combines biology, hydrodynamics, process and structural engineering, and we have practised it continuously for more than three decades.
Tools we use: Hydrodynamic and mooring analysis · ArcGIS · process modelling
Aquaculture
- Site selection, evaluation and inspection
- Marine containment and mooring design
- Hatchery, water supply and saltwater system design
- Wastewater treatment design and assessment
- New species development and research planning
- Technical and operational due diligence
Fisheries & processing
- Wharf assessment and design
- Fishing gear design and derelict gear retrieval
- Equipment and plant process design
- Post-harvest handling
- Processing waste characterization and treatment
Planning
- Economic feasibility studies
- New enterprise and operations planning
- Industry infrastructure assessments
- Greenhouse gas and energy assessments for certification
Bio-Resources in the field
Projects where this discipline led.
Ghost Fishing by Derelict Lobster Traps in LFA 36
Turning habitat compensation into 540 retrieved traps and a saved livelihood
Salmon Aquaculture GHG Emissions Assessment
Carbon accounting across a seven-facility supply chain for ASC certification
Digby Harbour Design
A 300 m breakwater redesigned around poor soils
Common questions
Things clients ask our bio-resources team.
What is bio-resources engineering?
Engineering applied to industries based on living resources, such as aquaculture, fisheries, food processing and agriculture. It spans site selection, structures and moorings, process and wastewater design, and feasibility.
Can you support ASC or other certification?
Yes. We completed a seven-facility greenhouse gas assessment that supported Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification for a Nova Scotia salmon site.
Do you work outside Atlantic Canada?
Yes. Our bio-resources work has included an inland fisheries project in Sri Lanka and a global aquaculture due-diligence exercise across North America, South America, Central America and Europe.
Insights
Read before you call.
7 min readAquaculture site selection and mooring design in high-energy Atlantic waters: how to pick a site that holds, and a grid that holds it
Aquaculture site selection and mooring design for Atlantic Canada: site surveys, current and wave data, grid layout, anchors, inspection. Read before applying.