FISH FARMING FARMING TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY FISH Mainstream aquaculture in Werribee, Australia. 600 cubic meter Barramundi grow-out tanks (2017)
Aquacare controlled environment aquaculture systems “AQUACARE ENVIRONMENT INC WAS ESTABLISHED WITH THE PURPOSE OF SUPPLYING COST EFFECTIVE EQUIPMENT TO THE GROWING AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY WORLDWIDE�
Henning Gatz BS Agriculture Science, Aquacare, USA Aquacare Environment Inc was established in 1987 with the purpose of supplying cost effective industrial scale equipment to the growing aquaculture industry worldwide. The company began by marketing glass-fused-to-steel bolt together tank kits to the emerging aquaculture industry and has since grown into an integrator of complete systems. Working closely with JLH Consulting Inc to provide leading edge bio-plans and system designs, Aquacare is growing along with the industry. Aquacare has partnered with JLH Consulting with the goal of reducing capital costs, improving the growing environment and controlling operating costs of farms. The use of pre-engineered and pre-fabricated system components helps to standardise farm designs and lower the installed cost of fish farm equipment. Equally important is the operating cost of the farm. To that end, Aquacare and JLH have worked to reduce pumping heads and oxygenation cost to help their clients operate as cost effectively as possible. Distribution and OEM arrangements and relationships with specialised world-class manufacturers allow Aquacare to specify and ship the best value in components available to build and operate a successful fish farm. Adapting equipment manufactured for a larger market to the specific needs of aquaculture provides an economy of scale unique to this industry.
Tanks
Circular tanks are becoming standard in aquaculture because of their cost effectiveness per cubic meter of volume and inherent selfcleaning nature and long life-cycle. Tanks are also becoming larger and thus cost-effective construction methods are needed. For tanks 100 cubic meters and larger, it is hard to find a more cost-effective and long-lasting tank system than the glass-fused-to-steel bolted together tank which was developed over seventy years ago for use as animal feed and manure storage tanks and silos. Today, this tank system is in use in thousands of applications worldwide, ranging from water treatment and storage,
Mainstream aquaculture. Vertical shaft turbine pumps: low head, high flow, energy efficient
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