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Aquaculture Innovation Centre (AIC) strongly supports the aquaculture industry in its productivity needs and aquabusiness objectives through project consultancies, extension services, technology licensing, applied research and technology development. In  meeting the nation’s nutritional needs by 2030 and achieving some food security, AIC has been actively expanding in both capacity and capabilities as well as her industry network and extension services for SMEs beyond Singapore. 

Vision and Mission of Aquaculture

Objectives:

 

AIC strives to support and develop the SMEs in the aquaculture industry with the aim of enhancing farming productivity through the following:
 

  • Facilitate new growth areas by regularly scanning the environment; identifying and developing emerging technologies or other areas of growth that are important for capability building to support sustainable development and growth of the aquaculture industry.

  • Drive farm productivity and product quality by providing product evaluation or testing services, applied research and innovative technology development including precision technologies that could help drive sustainable and intensive aquaculture.

  • Support safety, environmental sustainability and manpower productivity by educating and training manpower in aquaculture standards and best practices for better farm operation, biosecurity, environmental sustainability and workplace safety.

  • Raise resource efficiency and sustainability for applied research and services through cooperation, co-sharing of existing resources, space and pooled expertise from institutes of higher learning, agencies and research institutes.

Strategic Focal Areas of Aquaculture

Goal
 

Sustainable intensive aquaculture production with innovation and technology

 

Aims
 

“Grow More with Less”: For a sustainable and higher farm productivity

“Zero Waste Management”: For greater environmental sustainability

 

Developing technologies that would lead to LESS:
 

  • Water usage – water technology that could support intensive cultivation for urban farms

  • Land usage – vertical growing on smaller footprint; containment culture systems with controlled environment

  • Manpower reliance – smart or precision technology: IoT, sensor and automation; self-cleaning technology for tanks and net cages

  • Environmental pollution – animal waste treatment or by-product recycling; digestible

  • Production cost – cost-effective and efficient. Examples:
     

✔ Healthier produce through development of vaccine and sensitive fieldable tests
 

✔ Faster growing through improving feeds and feeding management, as well as research in developing quality broodstock and hatchery
 

✔ Training manpower for better farm productivity, food produce traceability, farm operation and biosecurity

AIC Team

 

AIC Activities

 

Learn more about AIC's activities here.

National Library Board’s Green Market 

Green Market is NLB’s annual event that celebrates sustainable living and connects the community to green groups and initiatives they can support. This year’s theme, The Sea-cret Edition, dives deep to explore the wonders of the sea and embrace the interconnections with it, urging understanding and action to safeguard its fragile beauty. 

From 8-9 June 2024, come have a whale of a time at Central Public Library. Get hooked on the ocean with their line-ups of family-fun programmes, booths, storytelling, digital activities and more, brought to you in collaboration with local blue partners. 

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Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) & AIC Mud Crab Expert Workshop from 27 to 30 Nov '23

This joint FAO-AIC mud crab workshop brings together experts in their fields from the region to share their research, industry practices and innovations, as well as mud crab farming challenges and needs from different countries. Through this 4-day workshop, possible strategic directions, practices, and recommendations discussed would help those interested in building and supporting a sustainable mud crab aquaculture sector.

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Innovating with Agro-Tech, 29 September 2023
Transforming Urban Farming through Inno-Tech & Practical Solutions

The event was a resounding success with participants relating that they found opportunities to learn more about SIT, AIC and UACOI. The pictures provide an engaging story of the event.

 

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AIC Training

 

AIC has been actively engaged in manpower development in the aqua sector through various formalised and certifiable programmes. Details here.

Our Services

  • Feed development & performance analysis
  • Feed quality testing
  • Live feed enrichment & production
  • Fish meal replacement with alternative protein source
  • Evaluation of feed or product efficacy
  • Breeding, hatchery & larviculture
  • Selective breeding & seedstock development
  • Investigation & lab testing
  • Vaccine development
  • Pathogen challenge trials
  • Water technology & waste treatment strategies
  • Material development for Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS)
  • Smart urban aquaculture technology development
  • Consultancy for certification of Good Aquaculture Practice
  • Customised training, certification programmes, webinars & workshops

News and Events

 

International Technical Mission, Community Universities in Brazil (22 November 2022)

 

A team of 26 members, mostly deans of 19 universities from the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, visited Aquaculture Innovation Centre (AIC) on 22 November 2022. The visit started with a presentation from the delegation, then by Dr Lee Chee Wee (Centre Director/AIC), followed by tour of the facilities. The delegates were treated to a sumptuous meal by the students at Top Table.

 

This initial visit is hoped to open up more opportunities for AIC to network and collaborate with the delegation. We are looking forward to the negotiations and discussions after this engaging and meaningful visit. 

 

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MOU Signing with Centre of Technical Excellence Sarawak (CENTEXS) - 18 May 2022

 

TP (acting for Aquaculture Innovation Centre) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Centre of Technical Excellence Sarawak (CENTEXS) on 18 May 2022 with the intent of collaborating in the following areas:
 

  • Research & development
  • Development of education and training programmes to support manpower capability development in Sarawak
  • Industry project consultancy services to meet the needs of local companies interested in aquaculture in the respective country
  • Staff and/or student attachment, visits and/or learning trips

 

This collaboration enables AIC to venture into the international region as the national aquaculture centre of Singapore.

 

Pictures of the MOU signing and visit of AIC Facility provide more glimpses of the day.

 

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Launch of The Aquaculture Innovation Centre

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AquaSG’19

 

This is the first event co-organised by AIC since its inception in July 2019. AquaSG’19 Conference was officially opened by Mr Lim Chuan Poh, Chairman, Singapore Food Agency. Besides the keynote speech, and thematic speakers, there was also the Yield Lab Aquaculture Innovation Pitch which was received very well by the audience as 5 teams competed against each other. The 3rd day ended with farm visits including the visit of AIC facility.

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A*CCELERATE NOW 2019

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Media Coverage

 

Feed made from food wastewater spurs hopes of cheaper fish 

 

straits times tp ntu fish feed

Source: The Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Reproduced with permission.

 

Fish on the dinner table could one day be produced more sustainably and possibly more affordably as local scientists have found a way to create fish food from food processing wastewater. Professor Stefan Wuertz, lead investigator of the study published in the journal Scientific Reports said that the idea is to find a sustainable source of protein in the feed, so that the aquaculture industry can grow. His team, from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) and Temasek Polytechnic’s Aquaculture Innovation Centre (AIC), created fish food pellets where half the fishmeal is replaced by a microbial protein.

 

 

New R&D uses soybean processing wastewater to develop feed to raise healthy seabass

 

lianhe zaobao tp and ntu new r&d

Source: Lianhe Zaobao © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Reproduced with permission.

 

On 25 Apr, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Temasek Polytechnic (TP) jointly announced that after four years of scientific and technological research, more than 20 researchers from the two institutions have cultivated a substance of microbial proteins from soya bean processing wastewater, mixed it in the same proportion with fishmeal, and used the newly formulated fish feed to breed healthy seabass. 

 

 

New Aquaculture Innovation Centre Seeks to Work with Other Players on Joint Research

 

ST Online (26 June) reported on the launch of the Aquaculture Innovation Centre and how it was officiated by Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry. The AIC is the first innovation centre to adopt a consortium model which allows it to leverage on the expertise of other educational institutions and organisations. 
 

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/new-aquaculture-innovation-centre-seeks-to-work-with-other-players-on-joint-research

 

 

Crab-in-a-lab Project a Sustainable and Clean Way to Restock Dwindling Numbers in the Wild

 

Source: The Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Reproduced with permission.
 

ST featured our R&D initiatives which have seen our scientists successfully produce 300 crabs within 15 months. The outcome is a significant increase from the three or four mud crabs the project had initially started with five years ago.
 

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/crab-in-a-lab-project-a-sustainable-and-clean-way-to-restock-dwindling-numbers-in-the-wild



Crabs Reared Sustainably to Help Boost Singapore's Food Security

 

Source: The Straits Times © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Reproduced with permission.

 

The Straits Times and TNP featured the launch of the Aquaculture Innovation Centre, that was officiated by Dr Koh Poh Koon, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade & Industry. The articles spoke about how the centre will focus on optimising nutrition for food fish during its first three years of operations and other ongoing projects that the centre is involved in.

 

 

Aquaculture Innovation Centre To Promote Innovation And Training

 

Source: Lianhe Wanbao © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Reproduced with permission.
 

Wanbao, Zaobao and Tamil Murasu also shed light on the centre’s consortium model and how it would collaborate with other organisations such as A*STAR, Singapore Food Agency, NP, RP, NYP, NUS and NTU.

 

 

New Innovation Centre at Temasek Polytechnic to Drive R&D in Aquaculture

 

Centre Director Dr Lee Chee Wee and Dr Saravanan Padmanabhan, Assistant Director of Technology Development at the School of Applied Science were featured in television interviews by Channel NewsAsia, Channel 8 and Vasantham.

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  • Susila Krishnasamy
  • 67806968
  • 8.30 am to 6.00 pm (Mon to Fri) Closed on Sat, Sun & Public Holidays

  • Aquaculture Innovation Centre (AIC)

    Temasek Polytechnic

    Block 8A, Level 1, Unit 4,

    21 Tampines Ave 1

    Singapore 529757

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