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Double-drained
recirculating production tanks at the newest CBM tilapia production facility, Wyoming.
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We are primarily
an aquaculture design - construction - management company. AquaMatrix's aquaculture facility designs are guided by two philosophical
principles:
1) System designs should prioritize optimum fish health.
Optimum health yields maximum growth.
All AquaMatrix designs and water, health and stock management practices embrace this perspective. Preventative Health Management
is the guiding theme.
2) System designs should be management and production oriented.
Thirty years of
hands on experience guide the operational designs and management of AquaMatrix facilities.
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Refinements of intensive/recirculating
aquaculture technologies have been a focus of AquaMatrix. Dr. Woiwode's experience with this technology dates to 1978, when
he developed and successfully operated two recirculation systems for the geothermal applications program of the U.S. Department
of Energy. He has continued to develop operational recirculation systems, worldwide.
Serving as Chair of the "Role
of Aquaculture in World Fisheries" session at the first World Fisheries Congress in Athens, Greece, Dr. Woiwode summarized
the state of recirculating systems in a paper entitled "Recent Advances in Predictive Recirculating Aquaculture Technology".
The most recent recirculating system activities have been the design and construction of the state-of-the-art
hatchery and grow out tilapia and trout facility at Sheridan College, Wyoming. The AquaMatrix team currently manages that
facility in a joint venture with the College.
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Sheridan
College fish nursery and production units. The facility has capabilities for single pass open, hybrid water flow or closed,
recirculating management protocols, for cold or warm water species.
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Water
delivery flume, concrete dikes and center drain for intensive production of black tiger prawns, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
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AquaMatrix has actively
worked in the prawn/shrimp industry since 1988. We have contractually managed semi- and intensive production of black tiger
prawns in the Philippines, employing skilled fisheries management to achieve sustainable prawn production.
Dr.
Woiwode has directed two black tiger prawn projects in the Philippines funded by USAID. The first developed health management
guidelines for prawn production in Negros; the second provided detailed nationwide analyses of the Philippine Prawn Industry
at the Presidential level, and prescribed workable solutions for the bottlenecks of all facets of the industry, from hatchery
production to feed milling to environmental interactions.
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Filter
to remove iron in coastal brackish freshwater prior to use in prawn farm, Talisay, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
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Manures
captured from intensive production of black tiger prawns, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
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