Health & Welfare
‘Boutique’ RAS for spotted sea trout
A boutique design project validated a land-based, recirculating production system capable of producing 50 metric tons of spotted sea trout per year.
Innovation & Investment
Mini-boutique systems designed for low-cost production efficiency
Mini-boutique systems offer a low-cost introduction to recirculating aquaculture that combines fry, fingerling and grow-out phases within a single engineering unit designed for modest stocking densities.
Responsibility
Carbon-nitrogen balance impacts nitrogen removal
For aquaculture managers, it is important to control carbon type and carbon-nitrogen ratio by feed formulation, solids removal or addition of organic carbon.
Responsibility
Microbead filters: cost-effective, scalable filtration
Microbead filters are an effective filtration solution that can be scaled to large production systems at a lower cost of operation than fluidized-sand bed filters.
Innovation & Investment
Mixed-cell raceways offer best of two water worlds
One solution to the problems with raceways is to convert them into a series of counter-rotating mixed cells that act as hydraulically separated round tanks.