Companies using aquaculture as their core business activity have to combine many special skills to achieve success. Aquaculture is a farming activity that requires its operators to be adept at understanding diverse subjects,including husbandry, biology, engineering, diseases, which are often grouped within the phrase "stock management". Environmental management and having the capacity to integrate aquaculture production activity into what this entails for farming today is an absolute obligation for future success. To these areas, one must add the need for skills in sales and marketing, topics that include the requirement of knowledge of food safety legislation and, increasingly, Quality schemes. Finally, each company must ask itself questions concerning the profitability of its actions. The business environment is changing rapidly and it is not necessarily clear to individual small companies which issues and actions will affect profitability in a detrimental or positive manner.

The DELTA website has been designed to give a broad analysis of company performance in technical and managerial matters, focusing on strengths and weaknesses, which should assist the understanding of the influences of the different operating activities on the final financial performance.

Summaries of technical, financial and marketing performance parameters are included in order to assist understanding the interconnecting elements that are important for successful business operation. The desired result from this self-review should be the preparation of an action plan that interacts with and corresponds to specific company objectives, which should form an integral part of the company's development strategy. Completion of this should allow companies to determine their training needs in a more focussed and specific way, phasing these over time in line with practical requirements and financial resources.

The key to achieving a successful result from this analysis is to develop a sound understanding of the company's business objectives and needs and then to relate these perceived needs to the development of an individual integrated training plan.

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