Planned
Hatchery
Later phase (after Phase 3). Broodstock, eggs, larvae and juveniles — planned seed for the cages, to be raised onshore.
Onshore tanks: filtered, warmed, aerated water.
Round tanks where larvae take live feed — the kind of hatchery planned for a later phase.
Fingerlings stout enough to leave the nursery for the cages.
This plant is planned for a later phase, after Phase 3. It is not a current offering.
The hatchery is planned for the onshore plot at Dalma. Broodstock will be held in tanks, and eggs incubated in conical vessels with a slow upwelling so they stay suspended until they hatch.
Newly hatched larvae are too small for dry pellets, so they will take live food first — rotifers, then brine shrimp — in round tanks, then grow into fingerlings stout enough to move to the cages.
Water quality will be the daily work: temperature, dissolved oxygen and ammonia, watched by sensors and staff.
Planned design capacity is 40 million juveniles a year, treated in the project plan as roughly 30,000 tonnes equivalent. These are design figures, not fish already produced.
The process
How this plant is run, or is planned to run, step by step.
Each step is cultivation work — water, feed, transfer, ice — not a portrait of the company.
01
Hold broodstock onshore
Cultivation in the planned hatchery will begin in tanks, not in a net. Broodstock will be held on the onshore plot in filtered water.
02
Incubate eggs in a slow upwelling
Eggs will sit in conical tanks, with a slow upwelling keeping them suspended until they hatch — the planned hatchery's first job.
03
Feed larvae live food first
Newly hatched larvae are too small for dry pellets. In the planned hatchery they will take rotifers, then brine shrimp, in warmed, aerated tanks.
04
Wean onto dry pellets
As mouths grow, the ration will shift from live food to compressed pellets. Weaning is slow on purpose.
05
Grow fingerlings to transfer size
Fry become fingerlings stout enough to leave the nursery. Transfer size is the product of this plant: seed for the cages, not a fish for the table yet.
06
Treat water as daily work
Temperature, dissolved oxygen and ammonia will decide each tank, watched by sensors and a daily reading.
In the chain
The plants, in the order they are planned to work.
01HatcheryLater phase (after Phase 3). Broodstock, eggs, larvae and juveniles — planned seed for the cages, to be raised onshore.Open the process
02Feed plantLater phase (after Phase 3). Pellets to be mixed on Dalma, sized so feed is not the constraint on the cages.Open the process
03ProcessingLater phase (after Phase 3). Harvest, chill and prepare on the same island as the cages.Open the process
04ShrimpFuture project. A planned 5,000-tonne crop in recirculating water, kept apart from the cages.Open the process
05Mud crabFuture project. A planned 5,000-tonne mud-crab plant in a vertical system.Open the process