Transcript HI My name is Doug Burdette - aquaponic and fish farming

FAST FACTS ABOUT BERMUDA
• Bermuda today is the third most densely
populated place on earth
• 3,301 permanent residents per square
mile. (Monaco with 15,921 and Singapore with 6,891 persons )
• Bermuda has a total of 13,268 acres of
land, residential land takes up more than
4,900 acres. golf courses use 777 acres
and national parks take 800 acres (6477
acres)
FAST FACTS ABOUT BERMUDA
• During the "Golden Age of Agriculture", 1800’s,
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agriculture had an estimated 3000 farm workers
cultivating 3000 acres of land
Today there is only 735 acres of arable land
available for agricultural use, only 360 acres are
being actively farmed. (roughly ½ in use)
Today there are only seven full-time vegetable
farmers, three dairy operations, two poultry
farms and 33 part-time farmers in the industry.
Source greenrock.org –Royal Gazette
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
• It means Bermuda has 194 residents per 1 acre
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of agriculture production
World average is 2 acres to feed 1 person for 1
year. (Climate dependent)
Bermuda's ability to produce enough food locally
to feed itself has been lost.
Two and a half to three million dollars leaves
Bermuda each week to pay for the food that’s
coming in, (source ; Royal Gazette)
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
• It means that because Bermuda is dependent on
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on-time deliveries from other countries of even
basic food stuffs—any disruption of deliveries for
even 1 week would create a serious food
shortage.
It also means there could be great opportunities
for local fish and vegetable farmers using
modern high density growing methods to make
a good living filling this demand.
INTENSIVE MULITI-FARMING
On ½ Acre Today
• 200,000 pounds of fish
• 90,000 pounds of vegetables
• For example=
• 400,000 heads of lettuce
OR
ON ½ ACRE TODAY
25,000 pounds of fish
150,000 pounds of vegetables
Example =700,000 heads of
lettuce
The same amount of produce one
would get with 1 acre in
traditional farming plus the fish.
AQUACULTURE
The farming of the water
• FIN FISH
• SHRIMP
• SHELLFISH
• WATER PLANTS
AQUAPONICS
TURNING WASTE INTO PROFITS
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OFFSHORE MARICULTURE
ON SHORE
RECIRCULATING SYSTEMS
ROUND TANK SYSTEMS
RETANGULAR TANK SYSTEMS
(RACEWAYS)
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ASSEMBLED SYSTEM
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RETANGULAR TANK SYSTEMS
(RACEWAYS)
SOLIDS FILTERS
SOLIDS FILTERS
DRUM FILTERS
BIO FILTERS
FISH IN AQUACULTURE
COMMERCIAL FISH FEED
FISH FEED
Commercial feeds verses growing your own
POPULAR NATURAL FISH FEED
WATER HYACINTHS
FISH WEIGHT TO LENGTH
SYSTEM COSTS
AQUAPONICS
• Aquaponics is the practice of taking the
waste from a fish tank system and turning
it into fertilizer to grow vegetables.
• Not to be confused with “Hydroponics”
which used Chemical fertilizer.
• Because “Aquaponics” use natural animal
waste, the finished product can be
certified as being “Organic”
As with the high density growing of fish, today we can a
small amount of space and grow the amount of product as
would normally take several acres.
The variety of crops is unlimited
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A Complete market basket
From Chili
Peppers to
Lettuce and Herbs
High quality, packaged for freshness
bring premium prices
Small scale aquaponics concept
• In some small scale operations where the
culture of the fish is the secondary
concern, the aquaponics is the fish system
filter.
In a high volume fish systems the
aquaponics are separated from the fish
system
LETTUCE
STRAWBERRIES
HERBS
BASIL
PEPPERS
TOMATOES