Formerly: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 19
About This Presentation
Title:

Formerly:

Description:

Formerly: – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:69
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 20
Provided by: defau614
Category:
Tags: formerly | obit

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: Formerly:


1
Formerly Isis Arctic Char West Virginia Aqua
2
West Virginia Salmon Trout
  • Dave Russell
  • Senior Vice President Product Development,
    MariCal Inc
  • Operations Manager
  • Virginia Cobia Farms

3
Blue Ridge AquacultureMartinsville VA
  • Acquired 70 Stake in WV Aqua/ Isis Arctic Char
    in January 2008
  • Remaining 30 retained by former owners
  • MariCal Inc. of Portland Maine contracted for
    interim management and transitioning of facility
    to trout and salmon production

4
(No Transcript)
5
4 million lbs of tilapia per year
6
(No Transcript)
7
MariCal An Animal Health and Nutrition Company
Founded 1996 Portland ME 28 Full Time
Employees in 4 Countries SuperSmolt- Over 100
million smolt produced with technology to date
for Global Salmon Farming Industry Marine Fish
in Low Salinity- VCF Bio-fouling Terrestrial
RD Efforts -swine, cattle, and poultry
8
MariCal Recirc Experience
  • Research lab has multiple RAS systems
  • 8 years of research on Trout and Salmon in RAS
    systems
  • Incubation/larval rearing
  • Freshwater
  • Saltwater
  • Smolt Production
  • Commercial RAS Facility Experience
  • Staff has 40 years experience working with RAS
  • Facility design operation
  • Technology at 25 commercial RAS facilities
    globally
  • Egg incubation
  • Larval rearing
  • Multiple Species
  • Salmon
  • Trout
  • Arctic Char
  • Cod
  • Tilapia

9
Extensive knowledge of all aspects of production
from egg thru harvest due to need to validate and
evaluate our technology
We are not newcomers to Trout and Salmon
10
Blue Ridge Vision for the Future500 million lbs
of Seafood Production in one or two centralized
locations
  • Diversify Species Portfolio
  • Tilapia, Shrimp, Cobia, Salmon and Trout
  • Acquire/develop satellite commercial scale RD
    facilities
  • Increase production capacities of each site upon
    merits and feasibility of location
  • Select one or two locations for large scale
    centralized multi-species production
  • West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina are
    possible locations
  • Looking for sites of 500 to over 1000 acres in
    size
  • Add feed milling capability
  • Byproduct Utilization opportunities for reduced
    production costs and sustainability
  • Market positioning
  • Eco-friendly, sustainable, safe, and high in
    heart healthy omega-3 fatty acids
  • One stop shopping

11
Plan is underway
  • Large Scale tilapia production exists in
    Martinsville Virginia
  • Production being increased by another 10 million
    lbs in 2008
  • Satellite facilities for other species
    established
  • Cobia- Virginia Cobia Farms
  • Shrimp- Virginia Shrimp Farms
  • Trout and Salmon- West Virginia Salmon Trout

12
(No Transcript)
13
(No Transcript)
14
Virginia Cobia Farms LLCa joint venture between
  • Blue Ridge Aquaculture of Martinsville Virginia,
    the largest tilapia fish farm in the United
    States
  • Produces 4 million lbs of fish annually indoors
  • MariCal LLC, an International Animal Health and
    Nutrition Company based in Portland Maine with
    broad global aquaculture experience

15
s s s

16
Virginia Cobia Farms- Pilot facility
17
Broodstock tanks at VCF
18
West Virginia Salmon Trout
  • Arctic char being phased out
  • Last of Char will be gone by April
  • Trout eggs are now in the hatchery
  • Majority of production will be trout
  • Will produce pigmented fish of about 4 lbs
  • Salmon eggs to arrive soon
  • Use of MariCal technology to overcome
    smoltification/de-smoltifications cycles in
    freshwater.
  • Use of technology to achieve seawater growth
    rates in fresh water environment

19
Thank You
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com