Seeking to optimise RAS-grown salmon production

Seeking to optimise RAS-grown salmon production

Source: The Fish Site

12/29/2022

Seeking to optimise RAS-grown salmon production

Credit: John Davidson, The Conservation Fund Freshwater Institute

Researchers at the Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute (TCFFI) in West Virginia are trying to solve some of the key problems facing those trying to produce Atlantic salmon in land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) facilities.

“The recirculating aquaculture systems are designed so that the water used to rear the fish can exit the system, be treated, capture waste, and then be restored to a quality to where it can be returned to the fish production system,” Caird Rexroad III, who is national program leader at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Services (ARS), explained in a press release.