Julie MaguireSeptember 2015

Background Established in 1987 as part of University College Cork’s

Aquaculture Development Centre; 2005 became Ireland’s first independent commercial

research centre; Currently have 7 EU funded projects.

The Station Land and sea based facilities for experimental trials on

fish and shellfish; Fully equipped laboratory, both pump ashore and

recirculation units, seawater filtration and treatment, seawater storage silos, workshop and offices;

Hatchery, conditioning broodstock tanks, larval rearing tanks, settlement tanks and algal rearing units.

The Station A polytunnel houses large tanks which allow a more

controlled environment for culturing activities.

The Station The company has access to shellfish long-lines and

finfish cages for on-growing experiments, and also a farm boat.

Tanks a million More than 30 outdoor and indoor tanks (from 600L to

8,000L) are currently used for finfish disease trials, sea urchin culture and seaweed research.

Staff There are currently 11 people working in DOMMRS as

researchers, PhD students, technical officers and interns.

Research Research work at the station has grown steadily and

has included consultancy, commercial trials and co-ordination and participation in EU projects;

Currently we are working on hatchery of sea urchins, disease trials on finfish, farming and processing of seaweed and research on microalgae.

Current Projects

AccliPhot is a Marie Curie training network devoted to study photosynthetic acclimation processes in plants and algae

Fundamental research is being performed in Arabidopsis, Chlamydomonas and the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum, which are species for the production of biofuels.

12 partners with 13 PhD students around Europe

IDREEM “Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture” (FP7 Environment theme).

This project involves the practice of Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture (IMTA).

PhD student Daryl is studying the benefits of IMTA systems using an aquaponics system.

Seaweed lines have been deployed at two salmon sites: Bantry Bay and Kenmare.

Other sites; Scotland (x2), Norway, Cyprus, Israel, and Italy

“Seaweeds from sustainable aquaculture as feedstock for biodegradable bioplastics”

FP7 Research for the Benefit of SMEs Co-ordinators – 11 partners

ODIN aims to prevent vitamin D deficiency in Europe (in people) through diet;

Salmon diet trials using varying levels of vitamin D3 enriched feed.

18 partners led by UCC

AIM: to develop a small (650L to 3000L) automatic user-friendly anaerobic digestion machine that enables the domestic on-site treatment of a wide range of organic waste at low cost and with low maintenance

Co-ordinators - 21 Partners Waste to be tested – fish, restaurant, hospital, fruit, nut oils,

cheese

SAFI - Support to the Aquaculture and Fisheries Industries – aims to use satellite technology to improve fisheries and aquaculture activities (FP7- Space)

ASIMUTH - Applied Simulations and Integrated Modeling for the Understanding of Toxic and Harmful Algal Blooms. In November 2013 we were awarded the Copernicus Masters Award from the European Space Agency for “Best service for European citizens” for our work on this project.

COASTAL THEMATIC EXPLOITATION PLATFORMS aims to manage and standardise satellite data (ESA funded)

AtlantOS – Earth Observation of the Atlantic 64 partners

Contacts

DOMMRS, Gearhies, Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland

+353-27-29181 www.dommrc.com info@dommrc.com www.facebook.com/DOMMRS

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