Closed-containment trout to hit China
By SeafoodSource staff
08 June, 2010 -
AgriMarine Holdings will begin by late summer or early fall supplying five-star hotels in China with its first batch of Pacific steelhead trout farmed in a closed-containment system.
The Vancouver-based company announced the milestone on Tuesday, less than a year after it unveiled the world’s first solid-wall, closed-containment fish farm in the Benxi region of China’s Liaoning province.
The juveniles stocked in the 3,000-cubic-meter tank “thrived” through the winter, even though temperatures reached minus-30 Celsius. The closed-containment system draws warmer water from the depths of Guanmenshan Power Reservoir, so the tank and equipment remained ice free.
AgriMarine also announced that the installation of its second closed-containment tank in Benxi is complete and that it’s expanding its hatchery to increase capacity to 5 million smolts annually.
“By using a more efficient water assembly technique with an innovative new assembly system for our marine tanks, we were able to reduce costs by 75 percent of our previous shore-based method and cut the time of assembly in half,” said Sean Wilton, president of Benxi AgriMarine. “The second tank will be followed by the installation and stocking of four additional tanks, in order to expand production in China and offer sustainably farmed, local fresh fish.”
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