The Aqua-Plankton project

To meet the government vision of sustainable aquaculture in a changing climate (Scottish Government 2023) the aquaculture industry urgently requires both better understanding of the environmental conditions that promote plankton blooms at farms, and enhanced methods for monitoring, forecasting and rapidly disseminating the occurrence these events to allow the industry sufficient time to undertake mitigation.
Our consortium will therefore address the plankton impact on aquaculture through 1) the application of novel automated plankton monitoring approaches, s) AI based classification and enumeration of monitored plankton, 3) mathematical model-based assessment and forecast of plankton risk 4) real time web-based reporting to the aquaculture industry and other stakeholders of this plankton risk.