Thierry Chopin does world-class research on a university campus once targeted for demotion.Mr. Chopin, a professor of marine biology at the University of New Brunswick's campus in the industrial port city of Saint John, is working to solve the great curse of ocean fish farming, a major industry in Atlantic Canada. Conventional salmon farms can overfertilize the ocean with fish excrement and uneaten food pellets, causing fish-killing blooms of algae. He thinks the problem can be solved by growing mussels and seaweeds at the same sites, to transform the wastes into marketable marine products.
"What we do is of both regional and international importance," he says. "And doing it here makes complete sense."
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Author: Colin Woodard
