Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 pm
Dr. Paddy Gargan:
That issue arose and there is much work ongoing in Norway. There is a new institute in Norway that has been established with funding from the Norwegian Government to consider specifically how sustainable aquaculture closed containment can be done in an economically viable way. There is quite a bit of information coming and the institute has dedicated expertise solely examining how closed containment can be pursued. Norway would now be seen as the industry leader. There is also economically viable closed containment operating in Canada, with others beginning a number of years of production in Scotland. Norway is certainly considering closed containment as another means of developing the industry.