Project Summary

Sturgeon AquaFarms, LLC. has completed a preliminary design study for a sturgeon aquaculture facility, which it intends to implement on a site in northern Florida yet to be selected. The project development plan consists of two stages. The first stage is a four-year development plan leading to the production of Russian sturgeon for a premium fish meat market. After establishing meat production, a small number of selected female fish will be set aside for caviar production that would be accomplished in the sixth and seventh project year.

The fish production system for both phases of the project will be located on a property in northern Florida with an area of about 160-200 acres. The facility will include a hatchery building dedicated to sustaining sturgeon reproduction within the project. The meat and caviar production system will consist of intensively managed concrete tanks with pure oxygen injection and a recirculating waste effluent treatment system by which the water used by the project will be constantly renovated in an ecologically based overland flow treatment system. The system emulates treatment processes in marshes and grassland and has the additional benefit of allocating almost three quarters of the project surface area to artificial ponds and marshlands that will act as an enhanced wildlife habitat. The project will be a "zero discharge" system relying on local wells only for sufficient water to replace water lost by seepage and evaporation. 

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