Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Aquaculture may boost state agribusiness

To ramp up the automotive industry in Michigan, Henry Ford built the Rouge Plant a manufacturing infrastructure that could produce everything needed, from glass to steel, to make cars. Today, Russ Allen is looking for a way to build a shrimp Rouge Plant a pollution-free, recirculating facility that could breed, grow, process and ship a million pounds of shrimp a year.

Shrimp-growing system

It's not as far-fetched as it sounds. Allen, who spent 23 years establishing outdoor shrimp farming in Central and South America, has been raising shrimp indoors in Okemos since 1994 at his Seafood Systems research facility. He closely guards his proprietary technology from other companies and scientists around the world who also are racing to create the first successful, commercial-sized, indoor shrimp-growing system.

"This could be the start of an entirely new industry for Michigan, a clean industry, with new jobs," he said if he can find the US$10 million  (UK£6.079 million) he needs to build a commercial plant. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers
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