Our mission as aquculture consultants and partners is to promote
sustainable and responsible aquaculture practices.
Developments in the US and European seafood markets in recent
years have clearly demonstrated the political and environmental awareness
of the consumer who demands "poitically correct",
environmentally sustainable, and socio-economically acceptable
seafood.
Cobia
(Rachycentron canadum,
family
Rachycentridae)
is currently our main focus and our track record speaks for itself as we have produced hundreds of
thousands of cobia fingerlings in South Florida, Mexico, and Brazil.
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Our services are multi-faceted to allow for execution of vertically
intregrated business plans from production of fingerlings, growout of
market size fish in the open ocean or tanks, to harvesting, processing, packaging, transport logistics all the way to
sales and marketing in US and European markets. Our home base is in Miami,
Florida and our European base is in Hamburg, Germany.
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We stronlgly believe in diversification as neccesity in the current market place and suggest from
the onset to culture additional species . We recommend a Yellowtail Jack species, the
Almaco Jack
(Seriola rivoliana,
family
Carangidae)
which has a ready market due to its flesh quality and high sashimi value. For the Caribbean, Snapper species, such as
the Yellowtail snapper
(Ocyurus chrysurus,
family
Lutjanidae) and
the Mutton Snapper
(Lutjanus analis,
family
Lutjanidae)
are very popular food fish sought often as whole fish dish. We have several other suitable candidate species
to chose from and whose selection will depend on geographical location as well as type of culture operation.
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We suggest the Caribbean or Brazil as areas with good potential for
marine aquaculture operations, but many other locations in the
Indo-pacific may be also be suitable for Cobia and Seriola and
closely related Snapper species. Our economic analysis and experience in the
Americas shows that operations have to have a minimum production about
200 ton per year in order to take advantage of the economies of scale
and be really proftiable.
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Dr. Refik Orhun
Founder of Sciencefish Marine Aquaculture (and Seafood Quality Control) Consulting