Aquaculture Growout Challenges
March 20th, 2008 by andrewJohn Stephanis, Managing Director SELONDA Aquaculture S.A. and FEAP President presented his insights on the growout challenges before aquaculture. In March 2007 he identified the following issues as he commented on open ocean cage systems:
- present in Mediterranean, Ireland,US, Norway, Brazil, South Korea
- operation of 1000 ton cage systems in exposed sites requires robust equipment
- less competition with other coastal zone users
- higher investment cost
- construction of submersible cages (questions as to economic performance?)
- automation of feeding
- self sufficient remote monitoring and maintenance
- automatic net cleaning
- harvesting and transport
- insurance and risk management
- health management
- specialised personnel
The full presentation used by Mr Stephanis is available by clicking this link.
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