The on-land industry is getting so large that in-ocean is starting to dwindle away as industry itself, along with consumers who want fish from on-land sources.
I mentioned Atlantic Sapphire being built on land in Florida as the biggest in the world. But it is by no means alone. My list has 201 on-land fish farms systems, comprising 20,000 around the world: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. AS is item 176.
Here are some links for you to go and see about Atlantic Sapphire, text by Bill Bryden from NL:
This is what growing an aquaculture industry looks like; please see the video below by Atlantic Sapphire. Starting at the current 10, 000mt in phase one currently under construction, and rapidly expanding through phase 2 at 30,000mt (more than we have ever produced in NL) and then phase 3 at 90,000 mt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N75ljbpSBYc
Jan 11 2018
http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1410587/atlantic-sapphire-moves-forward-with-us-farm-as-crucial-first-steps-successful |
Company's model to entirely replicate the
natural life cycle of salmon is reliant on a natural onsite source of both
fresh and sea water.
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Now, that will give you an idea of what the AS plant looks like and you begin to see that the industry is changing. There are more of course, and Bill is trying to get the Premier Dwight Ball to stop for long enough to see that on-land is the way of the future and that the degradation of in-ocean will end. The point is to keep Grieg et al from getting into the water in the first place and keep NL from conflicting itself by giving Grieg $45 million to destroy Placentia Bay.
Here is more, and surprisingly, Aqua Maof is an on land company, while Grieg wants to use it for an on-land hatchery in NL, but still go into the ocean with 11, 2M fish farms. Note that Maof is building a 20,000mt plant in Virgina, right now, as in blowing in-ocean out of the water:
If that is not embarrassing enough perhaps a second site being built by the
SAME COMPANY THAT IS BUILDING THE CONTROVERSIAL GRIEG HATCHERY in
NL will catch your attention? Isn't this exactly what everyone wants, land
based closed containment?
Do you have a subscription to
Intrafish? If not, below is that article about Maof from my earlier email. Yes
the same Maof that is contracted to build the Grieg hatchery in Placentia.Re: http://aquamaof.com/newsEventsCanada.asp
Soo, why are they building a massive 20,000mt
totally land based facility in Virginia? Surely if its viable in Virginia it is
viable here in NL to take advantage of our infrastructure, distribution
channels, exchange rate, cheap labour, free land and freshwater, and
access to the lucrative Canadian and New England markets? Why didn't it go
here?
I can give you more than 4 BILLION cheap dirty reasons why... https://www.thetelegram.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor/letter-viking-invasion--the-sad-second-saga-176323/ Now how much of that 4+ billion will go back to the political parties in some way? The government's offer of yet another $45M in investment as shares in the operation is just insurance that they'll get to keep their net pens, be allowed to use insane levels of antibiotics and neurotoxins unlike in Norway and never have to worry about things like sea lice limits and fines/bad press. ($10M by ACOA has also been earmarked)
Anyway, here is the sad and sordid story as just leaked by an
interview with Intrafish at a recent conference.
"Yoav Dagan, vice president of Israeli recirculation
aquaculture systems (RAS) supplier AquaMaof, has a strong stance on what he
believes will be the future of fish farming. According to him, the big money is
to be made on land.The company, which Dogan owns together with his brother,
reported sales close to $200 million (€166 million) in 2017 -- a massive jump
from the $20 million (€16.6 million) it started out with at its very early beginnings.</p>
<p>“We’re growing 400 percent in turnover every year; Dagan told during a
recent tour through AquaMaof's operations in Israel. Within three to four
years, he believes, overall revenue will hit more than $1 billion (€830 million).It's
a big target, but an achievable one, he said: the land-based and RAS movement
is gaining momentum all over the globe.
[Now, please excuse that the next section has all the html stuff from the web:]
AquaMaof began with the Dagan brothers producing equipment for
their pond fish farm at the Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael in Binyamina, Israel, that produces
tilapia, carp, mullet and red drum, starting more than 17 years ago. </p>
<p>"It was a spin-off," Dagan said. "We've
been developing the technology for ourselves because we were struggling with
what was available."</p> <h2 data-element-type="subhead">Investment
spree</h2> <p>Around five years ago the company changed its
strategy, moving on from being a sole equipment supplier to investing in
projects it builds for its clients -- and consequently became part owners in a
number of them. </p> <p>In addition, it the company is initiating
new projects "in interesting markets," Dagan said. That way,
AquaMaof works on about five to seven new projects each year. </p>
<p>Today it has ownership in a Slovakian fish farm -- the Rybia Farm --
which produces 1,000 metric tons of catfish annually and started operating in
2015. </p> <p>The project is part of an agricultural complex
combined by fish processing plant and vegetables greenhouses. </p>
<p>Another investment is in a 500-metric tons RAS farm in Russia, which
operates under F Trout and is already building a second one. </p>
<p>AquaMaof recently also started operating a 2,000 metric tons capacity
sea bream farm, located in the Israeli Negev desert two years ago. </p>
<p>"We built it because we wanted to prove that we can farm fish
anywhere," Dagan said of the project. </p> <p>AquaMaof's
best-known project is Polish firm Global Fish, which <a
contenteditabe="true" href="http://www.intrafish.com/news/638893/land-based-farmer-targets-eu-tilapia-market"
target="_blank">originally reared tilapia in the RAS
farm</a>. Dagan and his brother <a contenteditabe="true"
href="http://www.intrafish.com/news/646898/polish-land-based-producer-calls-it-quits-on-tilapia"
target="_blank">bought the company out two years ago</a> as
the previous owners faced issues with marketing the fish.
Israeli group nabs deal for $57 million Grieg salmon facility
The facility is now used as an R&D site for Atlantic salmon
farming, Dagan said. We will sell the fish at some point but the main goal is
research. This is also in preparation for a massive 20,000 metric tons
capacity land-based salmon farm it is planning to construct in Virginia, the
United States. Land and licenses have already been acquired but it is still
waiting for the permits to get construction started, Dagan said.
Another project is a grouper farm in Indonesia, which is currently under
construction with a local partner and set to start operating this
year.</p> <p>"Our philosophy is to produce away from the
sea and close to the markets," he explained the strategy. The European
Union, the United States and southeast Asia are the obvious ones but Dagan said
he "really believes in undeveloped countries" such as Nigeria
as well as East African countries. </p> <h2
data-element-type="subhead">Banking big on R&D</h2>
<p>Dagan foresees a great future for two species in land-based fish
farming: Atlantic salmon and grouper. Cafish, which is "very rigid and
easy to farm," as well as brramundi and trout are also on the list of
targeted species by AquaMaof.</p> <p>The company is currently also
conducting research into land-based shrimp farming and is planning to launch a
pilot project with 150 metric tons of high-density production in Israel.
</p> <p>The company also researched bluefin tuna for the last seven
years with Virginia Tech and other researchers in Israel and Dagan said the
team is on the right track. </p> <p>"We will be there,
soon hopefully," he said. </p> <p>He was adamant to stress
that AquaMaof was "built on strong people," who have the
freedom for trial and error, for innovation and showing initiative.</p>
<p>The company is run by CEO David Hazut, who served in the Israeli army
with Dagan. Neder Snir is the chief technology officer (CTO) and Gary Myers
oversees operations as US director and senior CTO. </p>
<p>"Our philosophy is not about just building at farm, it's
about making a project successful after it's been established," Dagan
said. "And there's a lot of people behind carrying the company."
PS note they also have an operations in Russia ((500mt as F-trout)
that is undergoing a doubling of production and Poland (550mt) http://www.globalfish.pl/en/fresh-salmon.html
Neither of which I had heard of before. Every time I turn around I find more
significant land based salmon and trout operations hiding around the planet.
China (x3), Switzerland, Denmark (x11), USA (x3), BC, NS, France, Scotland,
Norway, Poland (x2), etc Some are massive and rapidly expanding...
Fresh Salmon – Raised in Poland. - Globalfish
Premier...PLEASE get better advisers. These
people you have around you have sunk every aspect of their reputation
and careers into making the lead balloon that is open net pen
aquaculture fly. Get rid of them before they take YOU, US, and our once
pristine bays and wild fish stocks down with them. They now have
to admit they backed an ecocidal idea that was the "wrong horse" -
something they will never do.
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