Agrimarine har udviklet et opdrætskoncept, hvor fisken vokser op i flydende lukkede bassiner. Firmaet har nu startet den kommercielle produktion af stillehavslaks i British Columbia, Canada, og ørrreder i Kina. Firmaet har opnået eneret til produktion af fisk i et stort vandreservoir i Benxi regionen, hvor de også har etableret et klækkeri til ørred. D første 100.000 sættefisk er klar til en videre vækstperiode i de flydende tanke. Læs mere herunder (på engelsk). -----------------------------------------------------------
GLOBE - AgriMarine Holdings Inc. continues its rapid corporate
development towards the sustainable production of finfish in its
proprietary closed containment aquaculture technology, by emerging as a
new publicly traded company on the TSX Venture Exchange under the
symbol "FSH". AgriMarine
has declared it is entering its aggressive commercialization and
technical refinement phase with the support of the public markets. With
initial fish stock production in the water on two countries, Canada and
China, and licensing agreements for other countries and species under
negotiation, the Company aims to fulfill its mission statement - "to
feed the world - responsibly".
AgriMarine has over 500,000 trout fry rearing in its recently acquired
hatchery in China, with the first commercial crop of 100,000 already at
size for entry into the floating closed tank systems. The tanks are
currently being manufactured at two plants in China to keep pace with
the Company's aggressive deployment strategy, and will be ready for
launch in July 2009. Field crews are already on site at the reservoirs
installing life support infrastructure systems for the first tank farm.
These will be operated by the Company as part of its exclusive license
for fish farming and water rights in the Benxi Region reservoirs, in
China.
This first harvest will commence the Company's commercial revenue
stream in China, launching AgriMarine's growth in the world's largest
aquaculture market. Concurrently, the Company continues the development
of its unique floating closed containment farms, in conjunction with a
research institute, at a demonstration site in Campbell River, BC. With
the non-dilutive support of research funding, an initial crop of
300,000 Pacific salmon smolts are in various stages of growth for the
first full scale commercial tank farm of this design in the world.
Capitalizing on over CDN $7.5 million in Research and Development
expenditure over the last 7 years, this marine based solid wall system
will prove that salmon and other finfish can be grown in closed
containment systems at commercial scale both sustainably and
profitably.
"With food protein demand continuing to grow and the ongoing pollution
problems associated with net cage fish farming, AgriMarine plans to
take a worldwide lead in solving these issues through the use of our
revolutionary closed containment technology," said Richard Buchanan,
President and CEO of AgriMarine.
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