HATCHERY
Water is pumped from wells in the sandy ground that
means it is ready filtered, it is then pasteurised and used to grow
marine algae for the hatchery and micro nursery.
We grow Chaetoceros, Isochrysis, Pavlova, Skeletonema & Tetraselmis
using 3 continuous algal production units of which one is a vertical
bag system in a greenhouse and the other two are outside lay-flat systems.
We produce algae continuously at a rate of 10-20 l/m at a cell density
of around 3 million cells / ml depending on species grown and time of
year etc.
Most of this algae is used in the hatchery/larvae/micro nursery stages
where we heat & recover around 5m3/hr of pond water and grow the
newly set spat until they will sit on a sieved 0.8mm mesh.
