Who We Are

About the Centre for Seafood Innovation

The Centre for Seafood Innovation (CSI) is an innovation hub that helps BC seafood companies extract more value from sustainable seafood harvests. As part of the Vancouver Island University ecosystem, CSI connects industry to researchers and students to capture opportunities and solve problems.

Our multidisciplinary activities range from the development of new seafood recipes to trials of emerging food technologies to communication research. These projects provide VIU students with invaluable experience — and the seafood industry with a graduating workforce attuned to industry needs.

We network with BC seafood entrepreneurs to better understand the challenges facing the industry. In addition to applied research, CSI supports business owners with business development, public education and workforce attraction projects to foster ongoing innovation. If your business requires coaching, workshops, or commercial kitchen, classroom or event space rentals, CSI can help.

CSI joins forces with VIU students and seafood producers to hold impactful public education events. For example, our monthly Let’s Talk Seafood...and eat it too! luncheons provide a forum for researchers to speak about their findings, and for seafood producers to introduce their products to the public. We support these events with recipes and training videos along with classroom curriculum for consumers and students eager to know more about BC’s seafood.

We also focus on workforce attraction for the BC seafood industry. Together with VIU, we arrange internships and experiential learning for students across the university’s faculties.