Company Overview

Today, people are eating more seafood than ever before, with aquaculture, the farming of fish and other seafood, accounting for a steadily increasing fraction of all produced seafood. However, the $79 billion global aquaculture industry is represented by only a small niche in American agriculture, partly because of its reputation for environmental pollution and slim operating margins. Despite the development of Recirculating Aquaculture Systems, technological advances have not had the ability to significantly improve the environmental compatibility and economics of fish farming. Until now.

Aquaculture is an enormous, high-growth, global business. It produces 47% of the seafood consumed globally, a figure that has grown 7% per year since 1970.

Conventionally, fish farming is a low-margin/high-volume business plagued with some difficult-to-solve issues. Namely, the two main inputs (feed and energy) are expensive, and fish prices are a volatile commodity driven by wild caught supplies.

TimberFish has solved the main problems in fish farming. The scientists behind the TimberFish system have re-imagined fish farming systems so that the methods closely mirror the natural eco-systems that foster fish growth in the wild. The TimberFish system has lower operating costs because it uses low-cost and sustainably harvested plant materials (instead of expensive pellets containing fishmeal) as the basis for the closed-loop eco-system that grows fish. The TimberFish system:

• Produces Contaminant Free Seafood
  
  
• Eliminates Expensive Fish Feeds Containing Fishmeal
  
  
• Produces On-site Renewable Energy
  
  
• Prevents Pollution from Fish Wastes