1. Feeding the Nation: The Aquaculture Alternative Sustainable Production Strategies for the 21 st Century Kevan L. Main Mote Marine Laboratory Feeding the Nation: The Aquaculture Alternative Sustainable Production Strategies for the 21 st Century Kevan L. Main Mote Marine Laboratory

2. AquacultureToday  Pond & Nearshore Net Pen & Shellfish Net Pen & Shellfish Culture Culture  Open/Flow-Through Systems Systems  Extensive & Semi- Intensive Production Intensive Production Strategies Strategies

3. AquacultureFuture  Enclosed Production Facilities Facilities  Recirculating Systems and Offshore Cages and Offshore Cages  Intensive Production Strategies Strategies

4. Mote’s Center for Aquaculture Research & Development Programs Focus:  Environmentally sound & economically feasible culture systems  Husbandry techniques for stock enhancement and food production  Research & commercial scale applications  Integrating aquaculture and agriculture

5. Mote Aquaculture Park May 2003 Mote Aquaculture Park September 2004

6. Sturgeon Commercial Demonstration Program Goals  Demonstrate commercial viability of recirculating system technology using a high-value product (Sturgeon)  Develop innovative husbandry and sturgeon caviar processing techniques

7. Shrimp Commercial Demonstration Program Goals  Design and test recirculating strategies for zero discharge shrimp production systems  Assist the development of sustainable U.S. shrimp farming (food and bait shrimp)

8. Marine Fish Aquaculture Research Goals  Develop commercial- scale protocols for larval, nursery and growout phases  Identify appropriate live feeds for larval rearing  Determine culture protocols for marine species in inland recirculating systems

9. Coral Aquaculture Research Goals  Develop culture techniques to produce Florida’s hard corals for restoration research  Design and construct culture systems for seed bank & mass production culture systems  Compare growth and survival in field and lab culture environments

10. Freshwater Recirculating Technology Research Goals Develop commercial- scale recirculating systems for sturgeon production Develop commercial- scale recirculating systems for sturgeon production  Optimal water chemistry  Conserve water  Reuse water (shrimp) and solids (wetland plant production)  Maintain economic feasibility

11. Sturgeon Growout Facilities

12. Marine Recirculating Technology Research Goals Develop turn-key recirculating systems for marine fish and marine larval feeds production Develop turn-key recirculating systems for marine fish and marine larval feeds production  Optimal water chemistry  Quickly remove solids and oils  Reuse water (fish) and solids (mangrove production) (mangrove production)  Conserve water  Maintain economic feasibility

13. Marine Systems: Multi-step Filtration to Maintain Oceanic Water Conditions Step 1: Primary Filtration  Solids Removal  Biofiltration  Foam Fractionation  UV

14. Marine Systems: Multi-step Filtration to Maintain Oceanic Water Conditions Step 2: Clean-Water Filtration  Denitrification  Foam Fractionation  Ozone  U.V.  Charcoal Filtration

15. Marine Systems: Multi-step Filtration to Maintain Oceanic Water Conditions Step 3: Concentration and drying of solids  Solids are dried for agricultural production or disposal  Water is filtered and reclaimed using reverse osmosis