The farming of fish in recirculation systems will be a new challenge to the way farmers manage their business.

The advanced and intensive systems will require properly trained personnel to deal with day-day management and especially people with a strong mentality to stay calm in critical situations. The small farm in the countryside has become an industrialised farm completely depending on electricity and pure oxygen with only minutes of reaction time to save the fish.

Communication to wholesalers, supermarkets and, most importantly, the consumer will be of utmost importance. There are advantages and disadvantages in respect of communicating the "recirculation way" of fish production. It is obvious that the producer will benefit if he is able to position recirculation as an environmentally friendly farming technology with the highest level of food safety in the mind of the consumer. On the other hand, it will be disastrous if consumers compare recirculation-fish to battery hens.

M.Sc. Jacob Bregnballe has 25 years of experience in fish farming, runs his own farm and is a partner of DANAQ - The Danish Aquaculture Development Group Ltd, a company involved in aquaculture projects throughout the world, especially in design and construction of recirculated fish farms with references in countries like Chile, Norway, Sweden, Shetland, Russia, Thailand etc. 

Contact Details: Jacob Bregnballe, senior adviser DANAQ, Asnaesvej 40 - 4400 Kalundborg - Denmark
Tel.+45 5956 0050. E-mail: jb@danaq.com - www.danaq.com