World Aquaculture Magazine - September 2021

WWW.WA S .ORG • WORLD AQUACULTURE • SEP TEMBER 2021 29 through the Science and Technology Fund of the General Royalties System, for having financed part of the previous research through the cooperation agreement 002 of 2006 between INCODER and CEINER. The authors are thankful to Dr. Yonathan Zohar, of the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology of the University of Maryland, for kindly providing advice and most of the hormone implants used for the induced spawning of goliath grouper. Finally, we wish to recognize the vital role the people who worked every day over the years to overcome challenges and make results materialize. 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Lynne Falconer, of the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture, has been awarded a £1.5 million UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship award for her proposal to use data from salmon farms located on the coasts of Scotland and Norway to develop tools for better industry decision-making. Dr. Falconer said there is a gap in our understanding of what is happening at farm level, and what that can tell us about the bigger picture of climate change along our coasts. At the same time, climate change data available to farmers is often very generalized, which can impede decision-making at a local level. Together with her research team, she will use a combination of fieldwork, data analysis, and predictive modelling to develop a framework of tools for industry to develop future responses to short and long-term changes. The work involves close collaboration with a network of industry partners, researchers, regulators, and policymakers. We are now in an era of precision aquaculture where vast amounts of data can be collected, stored and analyzed to support better decision-making. This research will develop and use data-driven approaches to gain new insight into how farming environments are changing and howmarine aquaculture can respond. The work will consider the complexity of marine aquaculture, integrating biological, environmental, technical, and socio- economic factors that influence production to develop tools that address real-world challenges and decisions.