The company's land-based hatchery uses sea water that is naturally filtered through beach wells. This ensures a barrier against the entry of pathogens and parasites to the hatchery.
The entire production process is carried out within a controlled environment where both physical and biological conditions are carefully controlled and monitored.
Mature adults are conditioned to spawn in captivity. A female blackcod produces around 500,000 eggs in a season and spawns year after year. Fertilized eggs and yolk sac larvae are incubated in simulated deep ocean conditions. Larvae that are ready to start feeding are transferred to rearing tanks where they are fed on zooplankton. For providing zooplankton the hatchery operates a rotifer mass production system.
Once the larvae metamorphose into Juveniles they are conditioned to feed on dry formulated diets. The Juveniles are kept in the hatchery till they attain a weight of 10grams at which time they are sold to the farms.
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