A unique approach to answering these questions

The first principles approach requires an ability to collect information on the fundamental biology and life support requirements of organisms targeted for aquaculture. Our approach brings together several modern biomedical and ethological techniques in order to generate the kinds of information that are essential to the planning and implementation of husbandry protocols for marine organisms targeted for commercial production.

The basis for the utility of these techniques is that they all allow the researcher to ask questions of organisms which cannot communicate with us verbally.