A quick, cost-effective, cloud-based platform, which could solve one of fish farming’s biggest challenges, has received a US $100,000 grant for concept development and testing according to the University of Queensland.
The cloud-based service accurately diagnoses a range of fish diseases by using DNA sequences from infected fish.
Dr Andrew Barnes from the University of Queensland says “Aquaculture is one of the fastest-growing food production sectors in the world” and “It will be essential to meeting the 40 per cent increase in demand for food fish expected by 2030