The Carna Research Station is located on a Sentinel Site on West Coast with large land bank (c.7 hectares) with sea access and local pier.  There are a team of scientific and technical staff based at the facility, and a variety of physical resources available on-site.

Facilities & Physical Resources

• Offices & Service Areas (c. 600 m3)
• Dedicated Laboratory & Experimental Holding Areas (c. 1,200 m3)
• Specialised facilities, systems & services available, include
  • Pump ashore station (40 l/sec) with water intake and effluent treatment units (filtration and UV),
  • Marine Finfish Hatchery unit and allied services,
  • Customised Recirculation Aquaculture System (RAS)
  • Two dedicated, temp-controlled, experimental areas (c. 200 m3)
  • Live Food Production systems – microalgae, rotifers and Artemia
  • Fish Feed formulation/production equipment and production area,
  • Five separate arrays of experimental tank systems (72 no tanks) allowing multi-replicate trials at varying sizes (0.5 to 2.5 m3) many with temperature control
  • Molecular Laboratory – genetics and immunology
  • Capacity to hold finfish, shellfish and algal species

Staff Resources (based full-time at Carna Research Station)

• Scientific – Sen. Scientist, 3 Post-Doc Fellows, 4 R Assts, 4 PhD students
• Technical, Service & Admin– 8 persons
• Plus visiting/occasional staff from NUIG (4) and other Institutes