NCRA - Fish As A Food Of The Future - This Company’s Low Cost Solution Is Ready
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By David Willey, Benzinga
Read a recentprofile of Nocera Inc. here
Fish have become an increasingly popular food withover 3 billion people relying on it as a source of protein.
Its great health benefits — being both low fat and full of brain-nourishing omega-3fatty acids — also make it popular for a generation of increasinglyhealth-conscious consumers. How can a fish population be ensured forthe growing market without draining the oceans or ruiningecosystems?
Nocera Inc. (NASDAQ: NCRA) is one company investing infish as a food of the future. An innovative company producingrecirculating aquaculture system (RAS) tanks, Nocera focuses onhelping smaller fish farmers acquire its inexpensive tanks that usethe latest technology to make fish farming efficient and eco-friendly.
Ocean degradation has been a seriousenvironmental concern for decades, but it is hard for land farms toachieve comparable yields while maintaining the health of the fish.RAS tanks provide a solution by being more sustainable than oceanfishing and more efficient than land farming. One Nocera tank canreplace a farm pond and has 80 times the production capacity. It alsorecycles 90% of the water and can have solar panels installed abovethe tanks for maximal energy conservation.
Clean And EfficientTanks
Nocera’sRAS technology means that the fish can be raised in a healthy,protected environment in the most cost-effective manner. The RAS iscomposed of a waste settlement box, a biomass tank, and awater-treatment system, as well as an inlet and oxygenation system toincrease oxygen in high density to keep the water fresh andclean.
The tanksare constructed of relatively inexpensive materials to reduce costsfor the farmer. It
takes 3 months to build a farm depending on size of the farm,and in just six to twelve months the fish can be ready to go, with thetanks able to produce 22,000 pounds of fish annually.
Given the price gapbetween Salmon and Tilapia and Catfish has narrowed, this means local,small-scale farmers can harvest budget fish like tilapia and catfishat a lower risk and higher investment returns.
AquaBountyTechnologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AQB) Atlantic Sapphire ASA (OTC: AASZF) and Blue Star Foods Corp . (NASDAQ: BSFC) are alsoinvolved in RAS farming, though the cost of the tanks and the types offish farmed vary. Part of Nocera’s mission is to open up the marketto smaller farmers who farm what are traditionally considered budgetfish like tilapia and catfish.
“We are committed to raise green and sustainablefish for the market and look forward to continued execution of ourfish farm construction in the months ahead as we are committed to ourshareholders that we will continue to invest and expand in a green andsustainable way in the United States and globally, ” said Jeff Cheng, president, CEO and chairman of Nocera.
Market conditions in theUS could be ripe for the company’s expansion, with major seafood spendingfrom the government making waves and headlines . If the trendcontinues into more of 2023, domestic seafood purchases could be aserious boon for companies like Nocera.
Nocera is a fully integrated company able to bring fish from the farm to the table. In addition todesigning, manufacturing and constructing the tanks on-site, it hasacquired companies to distribute its fish in frozen and ready meals.
Learn more aboutNocera by visiting its website .
This article wasoriginally published on Benzinga here .
Nocera,Inc. is an engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) companythat designs, builds, and installs equipment for the fish farmingindustry, as well as provides technical assistance to fish farmoperations. Our Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (“RAS”) helppreserve the environment by reducing pollution from over concentrationof fish as often occurs in fish farms based in natural inlandwaterways or bodies. Nocera’s RAS tanks can produce 20,000 –30,000 lbs. of fish annually.
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