Innovasea has been providing site selection studies for over 15 years to established and entrepreneurial farmers and has developed an optimal process to evaluate sites wholistically. No site is perfect, and it can be challenging to determine which site is best suited for a project when different locations have different advantages and disadvantages which may be hard to compare.
Weighing the pros and cons of the different site limitations requires both experience and analysis techniques. What is preferrable; a good water source for a nursery or a low energy offshore grow out environment? A site that is easy to obtain permits for or a site with warmer water? These types of questions are hard to answer since the factors being discussed are not easily translatable.
This presentation will review some methods that can be used to create data, evaluate sites, and support decision making through analysis. These techniques enable farmers to make data-driven decisions as opposed to relying on “gut feelings”.