SBIR Phase II: Development of On-Land, Closed Containment Integrated Multitrophic Sustainable Aquaculture by means of Ecological Diversity.

这项小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛影响和商业潜力将展示一种全新的海产品养殖方法。迄今为止，在任何地方进行的陆地和室内海洋水产养殖数量有限，使用的技术只需要盐水、有限的空间和我们新颖的零废物方法。这种方法利用了生态学原理，即水生物种的多样性？包括鱼、沙虫、藻类、牡蛎、海藻等等？在一个循环系统中一起培养，使其中一种的废物成为另一种的营养。由于这些设施不在海洋中，海鲜养殖将不再受到某些自然理想栖息地、空间竞争、严格的环境法规、偶尔的污染和恶劣天气的限制。事实上，它们提供的技术可能是唯一能够满足全球不断增长的蛋白质需求的技术。所需的投入是植物所需的阳光和饲料，但即使是饲料也可以在内部培养或从始终存在的外部废物流中提取。这种方法在商业上也很有吸引力，特别是当与替代能源结合使用时。由于是模块化的，第一个单元可以随时在任何地方进行模拟。拟议中的项目旨在摆脱海产品生产基地对海洋的依赖，当然，要以经济上可行的方式做到这一点。陆上生产确实存在挑战，其中许多挑战可以通过将各种海产品一起养殖来克服，这是第二种突破，既能带来健康，又能产生副产品收入。要做到这一点，需要新的农场设计，掌握每一种水生作物？S的特殊需求和充分理解如何在共享空间和海水中与他人有益地相互作用。为了实现这一目标，使第一次全面的商业运作能够充满信心地进行，一个试验工厂的运作时间不少于两年，这被认为是至关重要的。在此期间，将引进大约十种可销售的海洋动植物。健康、生长和整体水质将被仔细监测。将特别关注水产养殖场管理的纯粹实际方面，以便在商业化时，任何有能力的农民都可以在计算机模型的指导下管理操作，该模型与设备设计一起，将成为除拟议示范外的主要研究成果。从表面上的复杂中，将出现简单的商业方法。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will demonstrate an entirely new approach to farming seafood. To date only a limited amount of marine aquaculture on-land and indoors is carried out anywhere utilizing a technology requiring only saltwater, limited space and our novel zero waste approach,. This approach takes advantage of ecological principle whereby diverse aquatic species ? including fish, sandworms, algae, oysters, seaweed and more ? are cultured together in a cyclic system in a way that allows the waste from one to serve as nutrition for others. Because such facilities are not in the ocean, seafood culture will no longer be restricted by certain naturally ideal habitats, competition for space, strict environmental regulations, occasional pollution and hazardous weather. Indeed, they offer what may be the only technology able to satisfy the ever growing global demand for protein. The inputs required are sunlight for the plants and feed, but even the latter can be cultured either internally or derived from ever-present, external waste streams. The approach is commercially attractive, too, especially when combined with alternative energy sources. Being modular, the first unit can be readily emulated everywhere. The proposed project seeks to break away from dependency on the oceans for seafood production sites and, of course, to do so in a manner that is economically viable. On-land production does offer challenges, many of which are overcome by farming diverse kinds of seafood together, a second break-away that confers health and generates byproduct revenues. To do so requires new farm designs, a grasp of each aquatic crop?s special needs and full understanding of how each interacts beneficially with others within the shared space and seawater. To achieve this so that the first full scale, commercial operation can be undertaken with confidence, it is deemed vital that a pilot plant be operated for not less than two years. Within that period, approximately ten forms of marketable marine plants and animals will be introduced. Health, growth and overall water quality will be carefully monitored. Special attention will be given to purely practical aspects of aquafarm management so that, when commercial, any reasonably capable farmer can manage the operation, guided by a computer model that, along with equipment design, will be a major deliverable of the research in addition to the proposed demonstration. From apparent complexity, simple commercial methods will emerge.