Australia: A new model to monitor Atlantic salmon farming in Tasmania's Storm Bay

Fisheries Research & Development Corporation (FRDC) has today released an independently reviewed report (2017-215) presenting a modeling and information system for water quality conditions in Tasmania's Storm Bay. The research undertaken by CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, has developed a new coastal water quality model, to assist informed decision-making based on accurate and timely information. The model presented in the Storm Bay Modeling and Information System report, simulates the seawater circulation and nutrient dynamics of the Storm Bay area, including inputs from rivers, wastewater and salmon farm discharge and interactions with offshore ocean water. The modeling system was developed using a "digital twin" approach; i.e., a virtual model of a physical object or in this instance, the coastal waters off southeast Tasmania. The model predicts the observed circulation and water quality in coastal ...