National Research Council Canada (NRC) is collaborating with College of the North Atlantic (CNA) to develop an ocean wave-driven pump to supply the CNA shore-based aquaculture centre in Lord's Cove, Newfoundland. NRC provides a combination of physical model testing under controlled laboratory conditions and computer simulation using numerical modelling tools developed at NRC and commercial softwar...Show More
The collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery in the 1990s devastated the economies of many coastal Newfoundland communities. While many have survived through a combination of a much reduced fishery, government funding, and off shore or out of province employment, none of these are sustainable long-term solutions. Sea-based aquaculture (“fish farming” in pens) has provided stable employment in some are...Show More
