Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) Stakeholder perception survey 2023

A survey was conducted with England based stakeholders and experts on Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS) development to understand in more detail what they perceive to be the main barriers for the uptake of RAS as well as the how they see the future for RAS in England. With help of a hierarchical ranking survey, stakeholders were asked to rank the biggest barriers for the development of RAS in England but also to state what opportunities they see for RAS. A more detailed description on the context, how the options were derived and informed, and the design of the survey can be found in the report (see attached. DOI available soon) Stakeholders are asked to rank from 1-5 of what they perceive are the biggest issues with 1 considered as most important and 5 least important barrier to the development of RAS.