FAST FACTS ABOUT BERMUDA

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FAST FACTS ABOUT BERMUDA

• Bermuda today is the third most densely populated
  place on earth
• 3,301 permanent residents per square mile. 
  (Monaco with 15,921 and Singapore with 6,891
  persons )
•  Bermuda has a total of 13,268 acres of land,
  residential land takes up more than 4,900 acres.
  golf courses use 777 acres and national parks
  take 800 acres (6477 acres)

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FAST FACTS ABOUT BERMUDA

• During the "Golden Age of Agriculture", 1800s,
  agriculture had an estimated 3000 farm workers
  cultivating 3000 acres of land
• Today there is only 735 acres of arable land
  available for agricultural use, only 360 acres
  are being actively farmed. (roughly ½ in use)
•  Today there are only  seven full-time vegetable
  farmers, three dairy operations, two poultry
  farms and 33 part-time farmers in the industry.
• Source greenrock.org Royal Gazette

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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

• It means Bermuda has 194 residents per 1 acre of
  agriculture production
• World average is 2 acres to feed 1 person for 1
  year. (Climate dependent)
• Bermuda's ability to produce enough food locally
  to feed itself has been lost.
• Two and a half to three million dollars leaves
  Bermuda each week to pay for the food thats
  coming in, (source Royal Gazette)

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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

• It means that because Bermuda is dependent on
  on-time deliveries from other countries of even
  basic food stuffsany disruption of deliveries
  for even 1 week would create a serious food
  shortage.
• It also means there could be great opportunities
  for local fish and vegetable farmers using
  modern high density growing methods to make a
  good living filling this demand.

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INTENSIVE MULITI-FARMING
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On ½ Acre Today

• 200,000 pounds of fish
• 90,000 pounds of vegetables
• For example
• 400,000 heads of lettuce
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ON ½ ACRE TODAY

• 25,000 pounds of fish
• 150,000 pounds of vegetables
• Example 700,000 heads of lettuce
• The same amount of produce one would get with 1
  acre in traditional farming plus the fish.

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AQUACULTUREThe farming of the water

• FIN FISH
• SHRIMP
• SHELLFISH
• WATER PLANTS

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AQUAPONICSTURNING WASTE INTO PROFITS

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OFFSHORE MARICULTURE
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ON SHORERECIRCULATING SYSTEMS
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ROUND TANK SYSTEMS
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RETANGULAR TANK SYSTEMS(RACEWAYS)

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ASSEMBLED SYSTEM

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RETANGULAR TANK SYSTEMS(RACEWAYS)

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SOLIDS FILTERS
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SOLIDS FILTERS
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DRUM FILTERS
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BIO FILTERS
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FISH IN AQUACULTURE
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COMMERCIAL FISH FEED
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FISH FEED

• Commercial feeds verses growing your own

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POPULAR NATURAL FISH FEED
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WATER HYACINTHS
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FISH WEIGHT TO LENGTH

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SYSTEM COSTS
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AQUAPONICS

• Aquaponics is the practice of taking the waste
  from a fish tank system and turning it into
  fertilizer to grow vegetables.
• Not to be confused with Hydroponics which used
  Chemical fertilizer.
• Because Aquaponics use natural animal waste,
  the finished product can be certified as being
  Organic

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As with the high density growing of fish, today
we can a small amount of space and grow the
amount of product as would normally take several
acres.
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The variety of crops is unlimited

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A Complete market basket

• From
  Chili Peppers to
• 
  Lettuce and Herbs

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High quality, packaged for freshnessbring
premium prices
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Small scale aquaponics concept

• In some small scale operations where the culture
  of the fish is the secondary concern, the
  aquaponics is the fish system filter.

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In a high volume fish systems the aquaponics are
separated from the fish system
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LETTUCE
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STRAWBERRIES
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HERBSBASIL
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PEPPERS
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TOMATOES
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