Grant to boost land-based salmon production

Land-based freshwater farmed salmon company SweetSpring Salmon of Washington state on Monday announced that it received a USD 875,000 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

The grant will enable the Seattle-based company to improve its recirculating aquaculture system and more than double its current freshwater salmon production capacity. The grant is intended to help SweetSpring demonstrate the commercial feasibility of land-based freshwater Pacific salmon production.

According to a SweetSpring press release, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation believes if such systems can be commercially validated, large industrial farmed salmon producers may begin to shift investment away from net-pen operations to land-based facilities, diminishing risks such operations pose to wild salmon.

“SweetSpring Salmon’s leading food science and seafood technologies program has enabled us to produce the healthiest and highest quality Coho salmon in controlled freshwater systems using filtered, recirculated and disease free water,” said SweetSpring CEO Phillip David. “We are excited about partnering with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and expanding our environmentally friendly production facility at our Rochester, Wash., location.”

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