Tilapia Fish Farming Safer In Former Industrial Building
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- It is believed that the Egyptians were the first to farm tilapia, a lean white fish with a mild taste, over 3,000 years ago. Today it is the second-most cultivated fish in the world, after carp, according to Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
While China is the world's leading producer of tilapia, just west of Tillsonburg the McLaughlin Brothers are bringing live farmed fish to market in Toronto. Tons of it. Toronto is North America's largest market for live tilapia, and the World Aquaculture Society predicts that production will rise steadily because of increased demand for the fish.
All of the Canadian production is sold live to local markets, where premium prices are obtained for fresh, live fish.
The technology used by Sand Plains AquaCulture has come a long way since early fish farming began. Come fishing with us and take this behind the scenes look at this emerging company and the amazing technology and innovation behind it.
great company. i wish them all the success. i hope we can farm more fish in north america, rather than asia. these seem like nice people, i wish them success. the host is good at asking the right questions.
Its nice that we people culture the fish in a proper way for us to have a food in our table and for the near future. Godbless
It might look artificial but the environment created is ideal for the fish species. Otherwise they wouldn't breed and grow so well. aquaculture is awesome when done right, and aquaponics is better than aquaculture done right!
Aquaculture farms should all, in an ideal word have plants growing as a byproduct of fish waste. Means even cleaner water and MUCH MUCH more profit, from the vegetables grown. Aquaponics is the future
it isnt ideal fish are just dumb and reproduce rapidly.
This is a great solution to the growing global over-fishing issue, but I'd like to see larger tanks where the fish aren't flopping over each other.
This is an impressive operation with all the bells and whistles. The owner spoke of how if with a power failure or similar the system could become critical. I realize they are trying to reach target weekly production, but in my opinion these systems are not sustainable and eventually something is going to crash.
Being a farm, with land (larger footprint), I'm wondering if they have not considered "aquaponics"? This is would help greatly and provide a profitable solution to their waste load, thus eliminating the need for a high tech solutions.
The combination of harvesting fish and plants could provide them with a a less risk ecological model that would not have the same high technological demand. They could produce aquatic plants and animals to feed the fish and not be dependent on commercial meal, which we all know has problems of it's known.
They may, at first, not be able to reach their current production levels, but they could survive, thrive and be financially sustainable.
"Just short of $10,000,000" is quite a "note" to carry.
I do wish them the very best in this endeavour. God Speed.
Jose Benitez Actually they are serving a ready made Asian market for fresh fish about 90 minutes a way. And a growing regional market for fresh, never frozen, fish.
Thanks for the update.
Jose Benitez eventually the water will have to be changed. I will never eat tilapia again.
+KrispyAquaProject It would be interesting, with such a large property that they could implement an aquaponics system too help reduce the "load" from the fish while providing fresh produce. It could open an additional market for them while saving operating and maintenance cost of their filtration system. I can see it now.
no matter how large their system may be, I doubt that every fish in every tub, tank, container, barrel or jug can they stand by to have clean water. Especially when a large amount of waste really has no where to go to year after year unlike rivers and streams where clean water flows in and waste flows down the water. Even if they add in aquatic plants or bog plants, still the thought of eating a fish that was grown in a bowl can be just as painful to understand like the live stock for Mcdonalds.
Nice plant! The volume is impressive!! This is green and how we should eat more!
Great job, very impressive. High quality food. May the good Lord bless your business.
Coming from an Asian. The red fish taste better more buttery :) That's why we love em :)
+franklyn flores ,,,, that is hardly a negative statement.
No they don't their pigmentation is different
What an awesome video and great industry! They did/do a great job
wonderful! blew my mind. would love to see more of these for the us
Your a living inspiration to others like me. Thanks for posting this video.
Awesome video. Great to see people growing and making a difference.
GREAT SETUP! BEST OF LUCK TO YOU AND OUR OPERATION. SOMEONE SHOULD BUILD A GREENHOUSE NEXT STORE TO UTILIZE SOME OF THAT NUTRIENT RICH WATER.
They are growing hay for fish feed for the fish he said it all goes in a circle!
A very good show about aquaponics ... I like it !
2:49 Reporter: "Now, is this stressful for the fish?" Farmer: "No, they are not damaged."
it's just like swimming down the river, he says. lol
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Yes, perhaps, I just find it funny that the farmer completely avoids to answer the reporters question of whether that particular step in the process is stressful for the fish :)
Yes, not to mention that we are actually unintentionally breeding smaller and smaller fish in the oceans, since fishermen have to let small fish go, while they can keep fish over a certain size. Not a very sustainable way of harvesting the oceans if we want them to continue to supply us with food.
+RelatedGiraffe Stress is a human concept. The brains and nervous systems of fish are quite different and much simpler than compared to a human's. A fish can no more suffer from stress than a fish can suffer from depression, anxiety, etc. People get fooled when they see a Disney movie with fish singing 'Under the Sea' or a Pixar movie of a daddy fish trying to find Nemo, his lost, handicapped son.
+gogomountain
How do you know that a fish can't feel stress, or even be depression or anxiety? Are you a fish?
Any fresh fish tastes great and it does sometimes depend on how you prepare it.
This calls, of course, for a good pinoy or asian cook that knows what to do with this fish. You can also move to other fish later on and develop your own strains.
I ate an Oscar and a Sinspilla once. The S. was grainy and mushy, but the Oscar tasted very much like our smallmouth bass, and that's all it is, except it's S.Am.!!
Try putting small rocks at the bottom of the fish tanks. Bluegill will create a nest. It might help.
love it i hope they sale in Texas
Amazing , Iam certain that these fish are sold in here in Alberta, where I do purchase and eat on a regular basis. I look foreward to seeing and buying a red Tilapia
Interesting video! Tilapia is my favorite fish.
Good Job Guys.
InnovationOxford - how is the farm doing today
i like this very much and trying out to create same set up in 3rd floor factory. however i am facing major issue of costing due to low price in tilapia (Malaysia). How do you guys overcome all these cost? Do you all follow the market price or just set a fix price of it?
We have the worlds largest Tilapia fish farming in the US in Martinsville VA near Martinsville Speed Way. Blue Ridge Aquaculture, Inc. is the world’s largest producer of tilapia using indoor recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). Each year, Blue Ridge Aquaculture produces 4 million pounds of tilapia, shipping between 10,000 and 20,000 pounds of live tilapia every day.
www.blueridgeaquaculture.com/aboutus.cfm
+J.C. RICHARDSON III You have a video?
Fantastic video, thanx.
the ph in his system is off a bit, you can tell because some of the lips and tails of the tilapia are red, that usually only happenes when you're ph is low. then again, they said they were breeding a red color(though they should be prioritizing size and grow rate)
tilapia can be found in Philippines, where I live.
Well done.
great video
incredible system!
With continuous cycling of of water in the system I am wondering there is accumulation, over time, of unwanted substance that does not sufficiently get out of the system with the solid waste?
They use it to grow crops on the farm outside, and dispose of the rest, waters cheap.
They know what they are doing my friend.
if they did not remove dissolved organic solids then nitrates would build up in the water and would inhibit growth.
The answer is yes, but there must be a "not so silent partner" somewhere around here. You could go into the live plant aquarium business very easily with the run-off, then you're using your nitrates, not to mention not having to buy expensive carbon/resin or other nitrate reducing compounds.
Pure genius.
NICE
such crowded conditions for fish . have some mercy on animals.
As long as the ammonia and nitrates are properly removed and the water is properly oxygenated then the fish are fine. 😊 the fish don't mind being crowded really tilapia aren't very aggressive so they get along.
Mitchell Staley
Tilapia are aggressive don't believe me put them in the same tank. The males bite each other
Feel free not to buy these fish yourself. And you should really see people in subways before you get prissy about fish "crowding".
10:33 really? I didn't know that!
Wow. We don't even have Tilapia in our country.
I prefer White Whitting.... Salmon and Smoked Salmon (like the deli sliced or restaurant kind) is my all time favorite. The puller needs to be rethought out...the fish should be swimming themselves to a separate area perhaps for feeding that will automatically pull them....so the machine might be too loud and I think you're wasting a lot of electricity. Too much oxygen damages their circulatory system....so hopefully its a low oxygen load....with oxygen that is perhaps kept at low given pressure.....why...because you should be using grass....if you can't use grass the process it and add it differently...but somehow they need chlorophyl...or lettuce....or alfafa...or cabbage etc...hahaha Don't we have purple lettuce...and purple cabbage... Should you have one tropical light...? Or one tropical pool light...they go inside the pool...hehe What do I know...just throwing ideas at ya... You don't have enough space I think...and they're not Wriggley Happy....they should be wriggly happy like a dog tryign to reach for i'ts tail..hehe I think for breading you need a more real and more foliage filled environment....even if the foliage is plastic and even if you have to feed more.... Is there a dropper that you add as nourishment when you want them to lay eggs... Here in Florida they lay eggs as in many places in shallow water...and usually near grassy land or where the land has some type of top soil from gras or other plant life that has fallen like palm frongs... So to avoid the mess of palm frongs and other plant life I still think you may need to recreate the shallow water effect and perhaps add the dropper of vitamins or whatever...what do I know...I do know the fish wil make it to shallow water and wriggle and fertilise the eggs......if they're happy they should be jumping out of the water....once or twice per day per 100 or 200 fish....what do I know is the ration...and in the shallow water...thats where all the baby fish hangout...hehe Rice will make your fish much bigger....like a rice dessert...or tembleque....Rice Puddin (arroz con leche or arroz con dulce) or Candied Rice (without milk or sugar use teabags instead of milk and water....and maybe condensed milk or not; don't forget ginger, cinnamon and raisins;....usually fish don't get enough to eat in real life anyway...it's like comparing them to a pet dog) etc. In 1 days time....will cause your baby fish to grow about 4 times the size...even apple sauce...haha You need bigger aquariums to allow them to grow to full size or wait half the size...7lbs...I think. No innovation is using less expensive means to oxygenate or to complement your oxygenation like using grass and alfafa and lettuce and the bottom suckers to keep the tank clean....what do I know...talk with a veterinarian or fish expert...but we use bottom suckers to keep our aquariums clean and cleaner...and they don't mate...but you're right they may not breed and you need a separate tank for breeding....keep in mind that like a mill....any motion in the water causes the water to be oxygenated naturally...so what happens if you were to use less oxygen....since you already have lots of commotion going on in the water and lots of water movement.....
I hope they has some kind of filter on their audio. I could barely hear them because of the noise from the tanks.
Wait a gosh darn minute, nyow. What is this all aboot here?!
"The black fish seem to go faster." Those black genetics at work in nature as well. lol!
+Borne2Kill grow faster
+Borne2Kill *grow faster... but yeah either way the black genetics rule in nature too lol
Lol
auto-correct. But you guys get the point ;D
Venez construire ce genre de chose chez nous au Cameroun, c'est un retour d'investissement garanti en 2 ou trois ans.
while this looks like a great operation, it pains me to see that these fish never see the day light, eat processed food, are genetically modified for survival rate, have no space to swim, this is it's just crazy!!!
They are no more genetically modified then you are.
are the fish fed with a GMO product??????? just remember there's nothing like salt water FISH..................!!!!!!!
pre fukushima
I believe they are feeding them the hay they are growing with the waste water.
I have to tell you that fresh water fish are incredible I live in Canada of the great lakes and we have some of the best fishing in the world I personally dislike saltwater fish and love freshwater fish.
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That's cool you would like our freshwater small-mouth and large-mouth bass properly fileted there are no bones just like some of our pan-fish like the sunfish and perch. Sunfish is said to be sweet tasting fish. I prefer perch over them all but you need about 12 to make a good dinner for 2.
so sad their all radiated now
what did this system cost? :) were you able to get govt grants for this operation?
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it all depends,you can get grants if you have enough people, and reserve funds for government shortfall(doesn't pay) put you most likely want to start on your own with about 5 tanks and a water from air creater (idk }or a open water source like a river or natural lake so your water bill isn't 32000 for 6 months like when me and my family. MISSISSIPPI AQUAFARMER FOR 5 YEARS IN THE PINOLA, MS.
And its a BITCH to get anything, without a minimum education from the government, in MISSISSIPPI, if you have a agriculture/biology/forestry ect degree you can pull or are given about 3700 for tanks, your business plane has to be on point, ON POINT!!! to get a grant with no education. Funny considering all the low educated people here. B.s. in biology and concentration in plant pathology, Mississippi State U. BULLDAWG!!!
I have a Zoology degree from OSU, i have been in aquaponics for a few years now,, cash is the only thing keeping me from establishing a full fish farm production, if you ever would like to do a partnership with me in Ohio, contact me, id love to talk with you !
gregg stephens I loved the backwards south to much but thank you!! If you get approved show/ send me your brood-list and ill see if I can get you some frylings or milk, this year we just started doing shrimp and so far are gross has been 15000, in 3 months, it not as big as your set up, but for4 acre ponds and a full family business (split 4 ways) it aint bad. I want to quit my other jobs so bad. I don't know the political climate up there, but you might expand better down here, there are tons of people needing jobs, and you can set up and leave after a year and have some one else manage it, and still make a killing, KEMPER-BLUE SAILS-PIGGLY. WINN-DIXIE and KROGER. Do it all the time, they even get tax and water breaks if they use help less then 50 mile, elderly, veteran, or handicapped, I think last year they did college student or single parent but they dropped that program I belief. Anyway im ranting and raving. Talk to you later, I just get excited about farming!!!
A fish with no flavor you really need the spice
That's why you have condiments like Tamiya soy sauce and Thai. sweet chili sauce, and a thousand other things the asians add to their wok!!! Yummy.
Now you know why Tilapia tastes like what a dirty aquarium smells like. Absolutely nasty. Let's just hope that the giant pool of uninformed fish eaters are at least getting their Tilapia from Canada and not from the biggest Tilapia farmers - China - where... omg... Zero Production Conscientiousness. Too scary to even think about.
Tilapia naturally live in turbid water, completely clear water would stress them out. This farm's water quality appears to be much higher than that the rivers and lakes tilapia have evolved to live in.
do you sell tilapia eggs if so you can quote the price
lol ewart doesn't look like he is eating enough fish rather big mac . look at the size of him
Wait a minute! He is CAN $10m in capital investment with a great team and a ready market but the annual turnover is 33% - 50% of a CAN total market of CAN $ 3 m?
Did they say those were the numbers?
Phew! Even with a Gross Margin of ? 60% and Net of 25% thats a terrible ROI
... eeek
Great to say they made that crank to 12,000 lbs (5 metric tonne) a week = 250 t/year.
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Yeah in China it's fresh but full of pollution.
How do they remove the eggs from the mother's mouth?
+Gordon Chin Very carefully .....
There are vids out there that show the process. Basically you catch her, and then gently flush her mouth out with clean running water to flush the eggs out.
I need the contact of this plant,do you have?Pls
what are they feeding these fish?
They would be fed pellets. Don't listen to the idiots here that say they are fed on compost and manure. It's illegal.
probably fish
Is getting more profits the only purpose of farming fish? This looks like a car factory. This is why I stop eating fish. It is just not natural!
Your a dumbass man, how do you expect fish to be mass produced? If we keep going the way we are with the fishing we do already, there will be no fish real soon....
no, they do it so they don't have to take fish from the rivers/ocean and mess up the ecosystems. Its like pine plantations, we plant trees because we want/need them so we plant and grow what we need so we don't have to take it from nature
I always thought the purpose of farming was to feed people, but what do I know.
neither is mixing corn, or banana or grapes, from different parts of the world. Its progress and only 49 percent are farmed raised,!!
So overfishing and destroying them in their natural habitat is better?
well if all the stores close we become fish farmers
Plan on it.
I'm sure those fish aren't stressed out after all that nonsense.
Converted from a compost facility... Little known fact that tilapia will eat just about anything, including the very COMMON practice of using feces from chickens, pigs, ducks, etc. (NOT cow, because cow manure is far too valuable)
Little known fact that these tilapia, not talapia, is being fed fish feed as show...
DarkTheShinyUmbreon
Why did you write tilapia twice?
Because he's correcting your misspelling of it (Before your edit). What exactly does the fact that it USED to be a compost facility have to do with anything? They eat pellets.
be careful what we eat
aren't these poor fish stressed the hello out and then we eat it? even in the china farming (which is gross!) even though he says no stress..I believe all are now in farming :(
Game & Fish introduced these trash fish into our ecosystems, back in the 70's. MISTAKE!!! of epic proportions they took over, and destroyed the sport fishing in my area. These fish are muddy tasting, and strong tasting, and are very hard to clean. The last time I ordered fish & chips, the morons served me Tilapia, I took one bite, and demanded my money back, and told them how disappointed I was that they tried to serve this trash to me. They taste like mud, and seaweed mixed together.
While I dont disagree with anything you have said.I have to add that there is a difference between wild/poorly raised Tilipia and a properly farmed product such as this.I personally hate the stuff too but if fed quality feed and allowed to purge for a few days before harvest like they do here truly changes the taste and quality,it is a night and day difference.The problem is places like this are few and far between and frozen garbage from China is the norm.
Only buy live North American farm fish, Do not buy fish fillet from China and Vietnam.
i rather fish in the sea, this is gross.
So don't watch the video. Really simple.