Innovation & Investment
La acuacultura basada en tierra, quizás la herramienta más importante para la mitigación del riesgo ambiental, fue el tema principal en el Foro IntraFish de Inversionistas de Productos de Mar. Una vez el foco de burlas por parte de los productores de salmón por sus altos requerimientos de capital y energía, los sistemas RAS ahora tienen un carro atestado de seguidores – de productores de salmón.
Innovation & Investment
Land-based aquaculture, perhaps the ultimate environmental risk-mitigation tool, was the talk of the town at the IntraFish Seafood Investor Forum. Once scoffed at for high capital and energy requirements, RAS now has a crowded bandwagon.
Innovation & Investment
A number of large salmon farming companies are now investing significantly to increase land-based, water recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) in northern Europe and North America, and there is likely a need for more trained farm personnel to run and manage these and other close-containment aquaculture facilities.
Health & Welfare
The Fjordsmolt RAS farm applies a relatively simple, low-cost design to produce millions of salmon smolts per year in fiberglass tanks.