B.C. technology behind world's first commercial fish tank farm

Helena Zhu
November 4, 2009
The Epoch Times

B.C. technology and the research of a Vancouver-based marine microbiologist are behind the launching of the world’s first commercial fish tank farm in China.

AgriMarine Holdings Inc., a Vancouver-based fish farm company, has developed a floating, solid wall closed-containment system that, unlike conventional fish farms, is completely closed off from its surrounding environment. 

Floating in a reservoir near Benxi city in Liaoning province, AgriMarine’s 24-metre diameter tank contains three million litres of circulating water stocked with 50,000 juvenile steelhead trout. 

“It's a totally Canadian-owned operation,” says Larry Albright, a member of AgriMarine’s board of directors who helped develop the company’s waste management, feed, and life support systems.

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