CANADA

Unfortunately , that facility was very expensive to run and was not sustainable . We were able to take the design concepts and transpose them into marine containment facilities . This enabled us to dramatically reduce the energy required to move water .”

It is these marine containment facilities that ATI manufactures today , although the development process has not always been smooth . “ Our first installation was in northern China , near a town called Benxi and so we created our systems there in a reservoir . They worked quite well and we had a further system built and installed in British Columbia , where we reared chinook salmon , and that actually worked very well ,” advises Walker . “ Although our first experience with the ocean tank was excellent from a husbandry perspective , it didn ’ t end well . We had a series of storms that winter that were pretty brutal and it finished off with a hurricane strength storm that actually put a crack in the tank so we opted to remove the tank from the water .”

Despite this , the crack proved to be an excellent opportunity for ATI . “ It was a perfect learning experience and we were able to take everything that we learned and do a complete redesign . We then built a series of tanks that are far more robust and able to handle that level of stress from the natural environment ,” Walker notes .

Excellent location In 2013 , the company acquired a freshwater farm in Lois Lake , British Columbia , installing six container systems there . Two more systems have also been exported to Norway – one of which has been running for four generations

AgriMarine Technologies Inc . Annual Revenue

www . fdfworld . com 65