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EU Aquaculture Assistance Mechanism

11. Is offshore aquaculture feasible and what is needed to develop it?

Yes, it is feasible, but technical, engineering and cost challenges remain. The future development of offshore or exposed ocean aquaculture will depend on the technology that is implemented to overcome the extreme conditions of the oceanic climate, the logistical problems to bring feed and other inputs to the farm, the development of offshore working platforms and the remote control of the platforms based in the internet of things (IoT) to communicate and to manage the platforms with optimisation systems based on artificial intelligence.