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Canada has an extensive range of research centres, food incubators, accelerators and labs supporting food and beverage innovation through the research they do and/or the services they offer. Each week throughout 2023, we’ll be highlighting an organization that’s supporting food innovation in Canada. 

Name: Merinov at Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles 

Location: Gaspé, QC 

Mission: To help fisheries, aquaculture and marine biomass industries become more competitive and develop sustainably through research and development, knowledge transfer, and innovation-related technical activities. 

Focus: Merinov is Canada’s largest integrated centre for applied research and technological transfer in fishing, aquaculture, and processing of aquatic products and marine biotechnologies.  

Services: As a sea-to-market industrial research centre, Merinov specializes in technology specific to fisheries, aquaculture, processing and marine bioresources. The centre offers a multidisciplinary team that helps clients implement sustainable and efficient processes. The centre offers clients customized solutions, helps find collaboration opportunities and partners, and access funding programs. The team at Merinov has expertise in R&D, applied research, technology transfer and technical assistance, design and process engineering, profitability and process optimization, diagnostics and support, analysis services, and food product and industrial application development. Its areas of specialization include: fisheries technology, fisheries diversification, shellfish farming, seaweed farming, fish farming, biofood product development, industrial processing methods, bioresources and biotechnology. 

What you need to know: Merinov is responsible for the administrative and operational management of the Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Îles’s CCTT for fisheries, whose mission is to provide technological solutions and innovations for Quebec’s fisheries, aquaculture and aquatic product processing industry, helping it bring products to market, improve the performance of its processes, and drive growth. 

Notable News: In February 2023 a team of researchers from Merinov travelled to Brest, France to learn about equipment and technology innovations that could be adapted to Quebec fisheries, especially in the re-emerging redfish fishery sector. 

Get Involved: Contact Merinov at (844) 368-6371 or at info@merinov.ca, or reach out to our Regional Innovation Director for Quebec Julie Daigle. 

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