Closed containment - The future of fish farming

Closed containment is the future of salmon farming in B.C. Sea lice infestations, farm waste, disease and escaped farmed salmon could be distant, unpleasant memories if the salmon farming industry switches from open-net cages to closed containment technology.

[hammerheadeagleithrustakag]

Hello from the Island of Trinidad in the Caribbean, I am actually doing lots of research to implement a stable and sustainable aquaculture industry in my island, this video was very informative. I would like to speak with anyone from living oceans so i can maybe get some advice or knowledge

[saosaqii]

Won’t salmon want to go back to their original tank to breed? Will they like jump out during mating season?

[troychampion]

what about fish food.. what are you feeding them?  "Fishmeal"?  where does that come from?  I like that you've gone so far as to tie up all the other loose ends... let's tie this one up too.. and then we can say you have a viable solution.  That done, I thank you for putting an end to an industry detrimental to our environment and turning it into one that is TOTALLY beneficial to the environment.  Also,  I didn't see the greenhouses that would be an awesome way to make use of the fish waste and help you keep clean water systems, so what happens to the fish waste?

[marcanderson]

Great to see the cleanup of wild waters that are being ruined by net fish farms is getting some traction. We are getting rid of dams that we don't need and cleaning up the waters where salmon live. Let's hope we can see this implemented in more places and in a hurry!

[Dailymailnewz]

but what about in deep winter when everything gets frozen because the containers seems to be outside and the weather is nice so what happened when the temprature drops down to minus 30

[superbdanieldu]

I start my Recirculated Aquaculture System from 2015, and now it's running successfully. I also would like to speak with anyone from living oceans so I can maybe get some advices on this field too.

[lesterhersh]

but in a closed containment you can fertilize alot of vegetables with the water it can be reused not just dumped if fresh water.

[TrueGuyT]

I love eating fish, and it would be a dream come true to raise them by myself :)

[labmitch]

I would like to find a way to add a BioDigester to a aquaponic system

[michaelkindscherm]

As long as you play the carbon game nothing is sustainable! Aquaponics is very sustainable on a small basis. But we continue to move forward not letting carbon foot print be the thing that controls our decisions for making thing better. With new ways of doing things [ as long as greed and power is not there] thing will get cleaner and more healthier.

[dylantkl]

I disagreed about why the industry avoiding to invest. Its basically come down to the cost associate with the investment. Cost of equipments are so prohibitively expensive. If there are cheaper and down to earth alternative, more farmer would join.

[CheNava]

put the whole lot of them the their business in jail and sponsor new breeds of fish farmers man these people are criminals they know it's bad and it still doing it for the money. All for the Love of money mankind too wicked.

[sfbluestar]

Why does the closed-containment farming industry have to pitch so hard for this practice?  If in fact the public is becoming aware of the problems with net-pen farming, just get your law-makers to demand the net-pen industry pay for waste treatment, the playing field will be leveled.

[dallasweaver]

Every analysis I have run says that net pens can economically beat recycle aquaculture systems (RAS) in sustainability, especially the Carbon in a life cycle analysis, and in large scale production costs. 

That is reality.  However, RAS for niche markets, broodstocks, biosecure systems research species and producing fingerlings, where the value of the product is much greater than food animals, you can afford the extra energy consumption and make a profit.  I know, I designed, build and operated a totally closed RAS for three decades until I recently semi-retired and was profitable every year.

[VideoGame]

Future of fish farming is in the open ocean using plastic floating like cages. Let me ask you this... where does the poop go from the fish in the tank? The answer is to the bottom of the tank all the worms and parasites are there and they will get to the fish in time. The key is to have massive space for the fish so It would be in less parasitic environment such as the open ocean.

[danielras]

To be honest, currently in China, people believe wild creatures are more tasteful, nutrient, and with many benefits compared than those from the ponds or RAS(recirculated aquaculture system). This awareness is hard to change in the coming 25 years, and this has become the difficulty for the RAS industry to grow.

[alikhan-tonn]

Any one there to answer my query related to cost???

[develentsai]

After all the fish raise in the container than people will say it mistreat the fish, the fish are too crowdy:(

[ridewhitehorse]

Farming fish inland is great and all, but you still have to take fish out of the ocean to feed the fish on the land. It an oxymoron until truly sustainable alternatives such as insect meal can replace the fish meal that is being depleted from fisheries every day to feed the land grown fish. The only real benefits from RAS is the fact that it can be grown closer to the market in more confined spaces and there is less waste discharge.

[jjmthree]

Just research the nutrition value of those fishys