Fish Techknowledge

Welcome to Fish Techknowledge

We are specialized in fish farming techniques and projects. Fish Techknowledge has grown expertise over the last 20 years in the field of fish farming technology. The goals of the company are primary targeted at developing and teaching fish farmers. Skills are everything. Lets list the main goals right here: 

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The development of environment friendly methods for fish farming. We use low energy pumps, heat exchangers and solarboilers. The water in which the fish grow is recirculated and purified by biofilters, the effluent is converted into plant materials as vegetables, algae, helophytes. Residues are converted into compost, finally.

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Research & development. Farming different, rare or new fish species comes with general  and specific concerns. Currently we are investigating how best to start farming several species like sturgeon (steur), tench (zeelt) and grass carp (graskarper).

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We give professional advise to fishfarmers that startup. In The Netherlands, we have started cooperation with AOC De Groene Welle at Zwolle and have been working with Wellantcollege, Houten for many years. Both cooperations aim at educating fish farmers.

 Dewi Baay-Maydarwati, owner of Green Valley C.V. (Indonesia), farming paprika's on the effluent of the catfish 

 

Farming catfish in a controlled and closed system.

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Farmed paprika's (in Indonesië) on water from a controlled catfish farm.

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The necessity of Culturing Fish

  
  
Aquacultural output, growing at 11 percent a year over the past decade, is the fastest growing sector of the world food economy. Climbing from 13 million tons of fish produced in 1990 to 31 million tons in 1998, fish farming is poised to overtake cattle ranching as a food source very soon.

Over the last century, the world relied heavily on two natural systems (oceanic fisheries and rangelands) to satisfy a growing demand for animal protein, but that era is ending as both systems are reaching their productive limits.

At this point, the efficiency with which cattle and fish convert grain into protein begins to reshape production trends and thus our diets. Cattle require some 7 kilograms of grain to add 1 kilogram of live weight, whereas fish can add a kilogram of live weight with less than 2 kilograms of grain. Water scarcity is also a matter of concern since it takes 1,000 tons of water to produce 1 ton of grain. But the fish farming advantage in the efficiency of grain conversion translates into a comparable advantage in water efficiency as well, even when the relatively small amount of water for fish ponds is included. In a world of land and water scarcity, the advantage of fish ponds over feedlots in producing low-cost animal protein is clear.

In contrast to meat production, which is concentrated in industrial countries, some 85 percent of fish farming is in developing countries. China, where fish farming began more than 3,000 years ago, accounted for 21 million tons of the 31 million tons of world aquacultural output in 1998. India is a distant second with 2 million tons. Other developing countries with thriving aquacultural sectors include Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Thailand.

 
 Currently we are in process of raising funds to accomodate our plans to startup local Indonesian fish farming industry. If you are interested you can participate financially and make a profit share. Interested parties can download a short version of the business plan here.
     Click here to download a fund raising flyer.
 

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