AQUACULTURE

Intensive use of extractive fishing is threatening important species and forces governments to impose temporary stoppages whilst the profitability of fishing fleets is decreasing and ship-owners are seeing their livelihoods threatened.

As a result of this and in order to satisfy the continually growing demand for fish to feed the world’s population, it has been necessary to breed different types of fish, crustaceans and molluscs in fish farms.

Fish larvae feed on multicellular microorganisms -Rotifera and Artemia-, which in turn require a balanced and natural feeding on microalgae.  This is the only way to achieve healthy farmed fish which compare favourably with those found in the wild.

ALGAENERGY has entered into research with various universities and with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO), thanks to which it is currently able to grow in continuous production  various microalgae strains, ensuring outstanding properties, either for larvae feeding, for the nutritional improvement of fish feed or for use in the “green waters” technique.