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October 23, 2015
Scholarship allows climate aquaculture research
Waatea Team
Posted On October 23, 2015
Lincoln University Master’s student Roxanne Lloyd hopes her studies will help iwi succeed in aquaculture.
She’s just received one of the 10 Rona scholarships awarded by Te Putea Whakatupu Trust to Maori completing degrees in fisheries, aquaculture or marine sciences.
Ms Lloyd from Taranaki iwi is looking for patterns in marine farm locations throughout New Zealand and investigating how climate change will affect present and future sites.
She says while there is a lot of work going in to identifying species suitable for growing in land-based ponds, the bulk of the industry’s output is still the salmon, mussels and Pacific oysters grown around the coast.
"If you want to go coastal you need things like water current. Water current is very important for most of these species to flush out the cages for king salmon or they need water current to push nutrients through the area so they can feed," Ms Lloyd says.
"She appreciated the chance to meet other scholarship recipients and Maori leaders at Te Putea Whakatupu Trust’s Charting Pathways for Maori Industry Future Conference, and she will also get the chance for industry field trips, such as looking through facilities run by the National Institute for Water and Atmosphere.
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