TimberFish Proprietary Technology

The TimberFish Technology Platform has three key components:

• As in nature, the system utilizes cellulose-rich plant material as the basis for a feed production system for contaminant-free fish and seafood. The system uncouples seafood production from fish and grain based feed.
  
  
• The system monitors multiple process variables and optimizes production efficiencies by adjusting operating conditions and system inputs.
  
  
• Fish wastes are recycled as valuable inputs to the system, not waste products that are disposed of in the form of environmental pollutants. The system is customizable and can produce both salt and freshwater seafood, including fish and invertebrates such as shrimp and clams.
  

The TimberFish Technology Platform, which integrates re-circulating environmental management processes with a forest-based feed production system, resolves the major problems facing the global aquaculture industry. This technology uses plant material from forests to generate a microbial biomass. Larger organisms consume the microbes and then become live natural food for carnivorous fish. Plant material residues from the process constitute a high-energy substrate that can be used to provide renewable energy for all of the production needs. The total process generates a positive environmental impact because there is no pesticide use, no cultivation of land, no clearing of forests, no use of existing human food sources to produce fish feed, no antibiotic or hormone usage, and no discharge of polluted water.

This technology enables sustainable production of contaminant-free fish and seafood by uncoupling seafood production from grain and fishmeal supplies. It prevents environmental degradation by eliminating the need for aquaculture systems that rely on terrestrial-based flow-through configurations or the use of caged production in existing bodies of water and is also its own water, wastewater, and waste treatment system. Finally, the reestablishment and management of large tracts of forests will result in the sequestration of large quantities of atmospheric carbon and water, prevent topsoil erosion and will provide new natural habitat to preserve the biodiversity and biodynamic stability of the global ecosystem.