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RAS eyed to resurrect Philippines prawn farming industry

Plans are afoot to revive the Philippine’s once thriving prawn industry. Local aquaculture authorities are looking into the possibility of using a recirculating shrimp aquaculture system, which would help farmers avoid bacterial outbreaks that devastated numerous shrimp breeding facilities in the past.


Swedish municipality to be site of Europe’s ‘largest’ RAS project

The Sotenäs Municipality in western Sweden has signed an agreement that will make the region the site of what is being billed as the largest land-based fish farm in Europe.


AKVA signs $130-M land-based agreement

AKVA group AS announced that it has signed a non-binding agreement with Norwegian engineering firm AquaCon AS for a potential supply of equipment, engineering and design to a new land-based grow-out facility in the United States.
 
 
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Dirty Fish Farm? Is it you or your Equipment?

Blue Unit has been invited onto countless fish farms to help a frustrated fish farm manager solve poor water quality. We apply a single set of water quality sensors to an entire fish farm. Using a single set of sensors, we can follow water quality gradients across fish tanks, biofilters and degassers.
A study of gradients across 20 RAS farms has revealed to us many RAS design issues that cause poor water quality.
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RAS Talk: Ideal Fish

It started out as a small RAS operation in his home basement, today founder Eric Pedersen’s Ideal Fish is successfully producing Branzino for the U.S. domestic market. We talk to Pedersen and Ideal Fish’s sales and marketing director James MacKnight about the company’s journey, its innovative strategies to reach the market, and its quest to educate the consumers about RAS-grown fish. » Read more
 

New York steelhead trout RAS farm ready for expansion

Life doesn’t always go according to plan. Ask John Ng, the entrepreneur behind Hudson Valley Fisheries, a recirculating aquaculture system facility producing steelhead trout in upstate New York. Like many Asian immigrant kids, Ng had his sights on a medical career when he first entered university, but the pull of entrepreneurship was strong. » Read more
 
 
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Dirty fish farm: Is the design living up to expectations?

Blue Unit has been invited into countless fish farms to help a frustrated fish farm manager solve poor water quality. Typically, we are forced to sleuth, using post-it notes of water quality registrations, lively descriptions of what the farmers have seen, generously peppered with finger pointing. » Learn more