PARR Research Priorities Supported in 2012-13

The Program for Aquaculture Regulatory Research (PARR) priorities respond to internal Aquaculture Management needs for regulatory and policy development and decision-making for the sustainable development of the Canadian aquaculture sector. Based on these needs, current research projects (including renewed and ongoing projects) funded in 2012/13 under the Program for Aquaculture Regulatory Research (PARR) are responding to the following priorities:

• Area-Based Management
• Three-dimensional oceangraphic and biological modeling tools
• Aquatic Invasive Species Management
• Environmental impacts of tunicate control measures
• Establishing transfer zones and protocols for controlling green crab
• Environmental Interactions
• Cultured-wild finfish interactions
• Effect of Aquaculture on Freshwater and Marine Habitats
• Shellfish Aquaculture
• Cumulative effects on habitat
• Effect on kelps and sea grasses
• Finfish Aquaculture
• Cumulative effects and waste assimilation
• Ecosystem Carrying Capacity for Shellfish Culture
• Monitoring Deposition, Resuspension and Transport of Sediment and Waste
• Organic matter depositional modeling tools
• Sea Lice Management and Treatment Effects