Fish Farming In Shipping Containers

After a career making shipping containers that transport freight around the world arthur lee has stayed with them in retirement using them to raise crops and fish.

Fish farming in shipping containers.

Food and the fabulous. The fish farm is a fully functional shipping container fish farm that is profitable affordable repeatable transportable lockable and stackable. Insulated shipping and storage containers. Shipping container farms are being successfully used in south africa and elsewhere around the world.

For etihad inflight magazine feb 2015 as soon as alan fleming scatters the fish pellets the tilapia in the tanks rush to the surface splashing water in the narrow space of a metal. You need one year to get the first fish and then you have fish ready every four months. Sponsored by hyatt local roots is changing the farming game for the better by brining fresh produce to food deserts this company builds farming pods ou. Operating on a rented 1 000 square meter patch of wasteland in hong kong s rural yuen long arthur lee s movertical farm utilizes around 30 of the decommissioned containers to raise red watercress and other local vegetables hydroponically which eliminates the need for soil.

Pure greens can customize our container farms to the user s specifications. The fish farm in philippi cape town. 1 of 16 arthur lee owner of movertical farm feeds his fish inside a shipping container in yuen long hong kong s new territories tuesday sept. With global returns of 33 8 million tons worth about 60 billion posted in 2008 fishing farming is clearly big business.

In philippi alan fleming successfully farms fish in an insulated 12 metre shipping container. Ackermann told fish farming expert. The fish take between eight and 12 months to reach market size of 400 500g. In the farm itself we have three different year classes.

Each container farm comes with a user s manual and a warranty for material and workmanship. A girl stands next to the fish from movertical farm at a supermarket in hong kong. Each side of the container houses three tanks containing tilapia nilotica and. Local roots 40 foot shipping container farms called terrafarms grow produce twice as fast as a traditional farm all while using 97 percent less water and zero pesticides or herbicides.

Urban fish farming in shipping containers is a south african innovation set to assist the poor by providing crucial employment and growing sustainable protein.