(42) Based on the expected progress in the fish feed and nutrition research at FARS, a bar-chart of activities is drawn and presented in Figure 3. The bar-chart contains the present research plans, the construction and equipment of the experimental feed mill, and the future diet formulation and testing research. Under the heading ‘Research Planning’ the presence of the nutrition consultant is indicated, but as has been mentioned in the Recommendations (Section 6), this presence will shift in time when implementation of research and/or construction is slowed down.
(43) The next visit of the nutrition consultant is presently planned in March 1987. In co-operation with the teamleader the following Terms of Reference have been drafted for that visit:
The Consultant will review progress facilities development, equipment accumulation, and capability of FARS to conduct fish nutrition research.
Progress in facilities development of the experimental feed mill will be reviewed and any change orders to complete capability for research and development in feed technology will be discussed and co-ordinated with construction engineers.
Progress in conduct of research proposals implemented at FARS in nutrition and feed technology will be monitored and critigued.
New research planning on nutrition and feed technology will be developed including formulation of diets from results obtained in the National Fish Feedstuffs Survey and subsequent assays of gross nutrients present in samples collected.
Demonstration of diet manufacturing techniques will be conducted and nutrition staff trained in unit operations.
(44) During the period between the present and the next visit of the nutrition consultant, the teamleader will send to Seattle the tender documents on feed mill equipment. The consultant will review them and rationalize specification terms, to conform to industrial type reliability for equipment items purchased.
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Figure 3 - Fish nutrition consultancy and research operations at FARS
