Atvinnuþróunarfélag Vestfjarði og Matís ohf. met with the Fisheries and Agriculture Committee last week on the ongoing development of research facilities for cod farming in the Westfjords. The committee was presented with a desire for municipalities and parties to be more involved in the development of research facilities for cod farming.
The project related to this structure is to get land-based cod farms that would facilitate the researcher's access to the research material and it could possibly be linked to tourism when it is further advanced.
Neil Shiran Þórisson says that Atvinnuþróunarfélag Vestfjarði is now looking for funding to launch the project. "These would be land-based pens that would facilitate all the research work of scientists on farmed fish and thereby increase knowledge of it, which could lead to greater productivity and better utilization of the fish. The project is on hold now while we look for people who could potentially benefit from bringing money into the project.
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