Tassal – Smolt Challenge System
Two smolt challenge systems built and tested in the FBD workshop then installed at Tassal’s Ranelagh site, letting each salmon group be tested for saltwater readiness.
Archives: Projects
NSW DPI – Research Rack Systems
A temperature-controlled research tank room for NSW DPI Fisheries at Narrandera, with 36 individual 80 L glass tanks across five racks, each with its own filtration and aeration.
Tasmanian Salmon Selective Breeding Facility
A four-system egg incubation and RAS first-feeding facility for the Tasmanian Salmon Selective Breeding Program at Wayatinah, holding 240 paired spawning groups and on-growing 200,000 fry.
Cawthron Institute Finfish Research Centre
One of the world’s largest purpose-built Chinook Salmon research facilities: six freshwater or seawater RAS systems for feed trial and physiology work at Cawthron Institute, Nelson.
Seafarms – Prawn Broodstock Maturation System
A 16-tank prawn broodstock maturation system at Seafarms’ Innisfail hatchery, built with James Cook University to advance prawn domestication and cut reliance on wild caught stock.
King Reef Seafoods – Barramundi Nursery RAS
A disused nursery at Cowley rebuilt as a barramundi fry on-growing RAS for King Reef Seafoods, with per-tank dissolved oxygen monitoring on OxyGuard Pacific.
Huon Aquaculture – Water Intake Filtration and Oxygen Injection
Design, supply and installation of upgraded water intake filtration, oxygen injection and pipework for Huon Aquaculture’s Millybrook flow-through salmon farm in southern Tasmania.
Cray8 Fisheries – Lobster Holding Facility
Design and equipment supply for an upgraded lobster purging and live holding system at Cray8 Fisheries in Te Anau, New Zealand, feeding live export to Asia.
Tassal – Salmon Egg Incubation RAS
Atlantic Salmon egg incubation RAS designed, supplied, installed and commissioned for Tassal’s Rookwood Road Hatchery, retrofitted into the existing building footprint and Comphatch layout.
Tasmanian Eel Exporters – Eel Grow Out RAS
A 20-tank, 180,000 L recirculating grow-out system for wild-caught eels at Bagdad, Tasmania, sized to a 525 kg/day peak feed load with UV, ozone, drum and bead filtration.