Exciting Times Ahead

It has been a very good week. 


We are finishing the final touches on our first production module and we should be fully operational in a few days.


The past 6 months has been very intense but we are nearly finished the construction phase of this project.


In a few weeks we will have 12 ponds teeming with juvenile shrimp and our highly successful commercial closed aquaculture system whose development began over a decade ago will be back in  production.


This first production module is not the full size configuration that I had developed in South Africa. It is roughly a quarter scale of the larger more efficient version. That said this will grow over 70,000 pounds of head on jumbo shrimp annually and serve as a working demonstration facility as we seek to expand our production capabilities here in the USA and other parts of the world.


We all have a lot of work ahead of us but we have achieved a significant milestone in our growth as a company intent on finding sustainable and environmentally friendly ways to produce healthy sea food and create quality sustainable jobs.


In the past year I have read at least four accounts of shrimp aquaculture systems claiming that they have made a breakthrough in growing shrimp in a closed system. 


In each case after careful investigation the results being reported were achieved in academic research conditions and were still did not equal the production results we had at Ocean Springs in our early research days over 12 years ago.


I believe that as of next week we have the only commercially proven closed system for aquaculture possibly in the world and definitely in this hemisphere. (I am never really sure what is happening in China or India or Vietnam).


We managed to grow large shrimp in significant densities by 1999. It was developing designing and operating the commercial footprint that proved challenging and expensive. We have all learned so much since 2005. Our system is complicated and has several critical pathways all of which must work in an integrated fashion for success, but we are again in operation.


My camera does not take great pictures but I will give you a few quick looks. 

Our fence around the facility is being installed today. 

Which allows us to start installing the equipment in the mechanical area since we can now secure the site. 

                             And finally here is a view of the ponds from the office trailer windows. 


                                       Exciting times ahead.