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Counting fish is never going to be easy but with the correct application of some well thought out number crunching, it may not be as hard as you think, writes Craig Marsden of Lark Statistics.
Marine Harvest is the world's leading seafood company and largest producer of farmed salmon. Aquaculture is changing the seafood industry, and Marine Harvest is playing an important role in that change – leading the way with innovation and responsibility. Marine Harvest is also a truly international organisation offering a broad range of opportunities and challenges to a variety of people who have chosen to make their career a quest. These words are taken from the companies website but it’s not until you experience Marine Harvest Scotland first hand that you can actually see that this is not just marketing speak but is actually a real reflection of a very lean and innovative organisation with a definite spirit of openness.
Seeing the commitment of the individuals in the factory and on the sometimes remote farms and then noting the success of the company, one would perhaps expect to encounter an air of complacency however, nothing could be further from the truth. A group of individuals from different areas of the business successfully completed a two day course on statistics in order to further increase their understanding of the wide variety of statistical tools involved within aquaculture, particularly with regards to populations. It is perhaps not widely known outside the world of aquaculture just quite how much emphasis and reliance is placed in statistical models of distributions and populations however, understanding elements like these in greater detail is key to not only matching customer orders more effectively but also ensuring the health and wellbeing of the fish. It is interesting to note that Marine Harvest Scotland is keen to innovate and progress whatever the circumstances.
For further information please contact:
Craig Marsden
Lark Statistics
(01253) 669339
info@larkstatistics.co.uk
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