How we can help you ...
We recognise the challenges and opportunities of the industry and are here to support you.
We do this by:
Tackling challenges together - we work with many businesses and across many aspects of seaweed aquaculture including seaweed nursery, seaweed farms and our seaweed academy.
Encouraging new people into the sector and helping you increase the skills and qualifications of your workforce - we deliver a variety of aquaculture programmes to Schools and have a wide range of seaweed training programmes available across Scotland, ranging from short courses to vocational courses and right through to formal University qualifications
Providing access to facilities and expertise - our state-of-the-art facilities include various labs, instrumentation, survey equipment, computing and cultivation facilities.
We work with businesses at all sizes and stages - from new start-ups to established multinational companies.
To find out more, you can contact us by email: aquaculture@uhi.ac.uk
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Our two Seaweed Research Farms helps us conduct research: identifying the most advantageous seaweed species to farm, developing cultivation and harvesting techniques, exploring how to identify and control seaweed pathogens and the policies needed to manage such an industry.