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

这一小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目的广泛影响/商业潜力将展示一种全新的海鲜养殖方法。到目前为止，只有有限数量的陆地和室内海洋养殖在任何地方进行，利用一种只需要咸水的技术、有限的空间和我们新的零废物方法。这种方法利用了生态学原理，即不同的水生物种？包括鱼、沙虫、藻类、牡蛎、海藻等？在循环系统中一起培养，使一个人的排泄物成为其他人的营养物质。由于这些设施不在海洋中，海鲜养殖将不再受到某些天然理想的栖息地、对空间的竞争、严格的环境法规、偶尔的污染和危险天气的限制。事实上，它们提供的技术可能是唯一能够满足不断增长的全球蛋白质需求的技术。植物和饲料所需的输入是阳光，但即使后者也可以在内部培养，或者从一直存在的外部废物流中衍生出来。这种方法在商业上也很有吸引力，特别是在与替代能源相结合的时候。由于是模块化的，第一个单元可以很容易地在任何地方被模仿。拟议的项目寻求摆脱对海洋海产品生产地的依赖，当然，要以经济上可行的方式这样做。陆上生产确实带来了挑战，其中许多挑战是通过将不同种类的海鲜养殖在一起来克服的，这是第二次突破，赋予健康并产生副产品收入。要做到这一点，需要新的农场设计，对每种水生作物的把握-S的特殊需求，以及充分理解每种作物如何在共享的空间和海水中与他人良性互动。为了实现这一目标，以便能够信心十足地进行第一次全面的商业运营，认为试点工厂的运营时间不少于两年是至关重要的。在此期间，将推出约十种适销对路的海洋动植物。健康、增长和总体水质将受到仔细监测。将特别注意水产养殖场管理的纯粹实用方面，以便在商业化时，任何有合理能力的养殖户都可以在计算机模型的指导下管理作业，除了拟议的示范外，计算机模型与设备设计将是研究的主要成果。从表面上的复杂性，简单的商业方法将会出现。

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.