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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2001
Yonathan Zohar, Baltimore, MD (US);
Stanley Serfling, Frederick, MD (US);
John Stubblefield, Lutherville, MD (US);
Alan Place, Baltimore, MD (US);
Mordechai Harrel, Baltimore, MD (US);
University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, Baltimore, MD (US);
Abstract
A high efficiency recirculating marine aquaculture process for producing fish at variable yield densities of up to 60 kg/meter of the aquaculture tank, including fish that spawn under short photoperiods such as gilthead seabream ( ) as well as fish that spawn under long photoperiods such as striped bass ( ). The process involves broodstock conditioning, spawning/reproduction, larval growth, nursery, and adult grow-out operations. The process is characterized by high-rate growth at optimal process conditions requiring less than 10% daily water exchange, thereby enabling effluent waste from the system to be discharged to a municipal sewer after disinfection treatment, which in turn permits siting of the aquaculture process facility in urban/suburban locations where aquaculture processes have been previously infeasible.