MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 1 -

By:

Bjørn Myrseth

Vitamar A.S.

E-mail: bjorn.myrseth@vitamar.no

Telephone +4790554963

How to develop offshore fishfarming in Indonesia

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 2 -

Quality biological material

• Quality brood fish – selection program ( a government job)?

• Quality eggs

• Quality juveniles

- disease free

- good growth

-big – 50 gram +

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Genetics – gains achieved

- 3 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Vaccination

- 4 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Indonesia currents

- 5 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 6 -

No strong tropical storms

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Yearclass separation - fallowing

• Keep only one yearclass on each site

• Fallow between each crop

• This is the best preventive action to minimize diseases

- 7 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Indonesia – the offshore opportunity

• The environmental conditions in the ocean is exceptional good

• Wind

• Currents

• Temperature

- 8 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Indonesia – the offshore opportunity

- 9 -

•# of sites to produce 100.000 tons:

•1992: ~200

•2012: ~30

•2020: <10?

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

The Norwegian Modell = the Indonesian Modell

- 10 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

The offshore modell

- 11 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 12 -

Broodfish - cages and landbased

Hatchery – landbased

Nursery – landbased (tanks or ponds)

Ongrowing – cages offshore

Processing – landbased

Feed – landbased

Equipment - landbased

What do you need?

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

What do you need offshore?

• Platform (or barge)

• Moorings

• Workboat

• Cages

• Small boat for inspections

- 13 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 14 -

Cages for offshore environment

Pipe Circum Net Significant Current

Diam ference depth wave height in m/s

mm meter meter meter

280 70 15 1.8 1.0

315 100 20 2.6 1.0

400 100 20 3.2 1.0

450 120 20 4.0 1.0

500 160 20 4.5 1.4

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

The Platform

• Platform of concrete or steel

• The platform will have

– 2 generators

– Feed silos or/and storage of feed bag

– Central feeding system

– Control room

– High quality accomodation with kitchen and showers

– Small fish disease lab

– Silage tank

– Fresh water tank

- 15 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Mooring grid

- 16 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 17 -

Cage for offshore use

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Steel platform - storage capacity 400 tons

- 18 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Concrete platform

- 19 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Central feeding system

- 20 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Feeding

• Feeding from control room

• Feeding by remote feed control on small boat at the cage being fed

• Feeding by feed gun from small boat

- 21 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 22 -

Feed delivery by small work boat

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 23 -

Feed delivery by coaster

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Day to day work on platform

• Feeding

• Mort removal

• Mooring and net inspection

• Washing of nets

• Health inspection

- 24 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Cages

• Bigger is cheaper

• Bigger more difficult to handle

– Need better trained people

- 25 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 26 -

Work boat

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 27 -

Well boat – to be used for juvenile transport and harvesting of live fish

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Human resources

• Well trained people important for success

• Well motivated people- well paid people

• 7 days on – 7 days off

• 5 -6 people per shift

- 28 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Fish health

• Fish health specialists on shore

• Top quality people

• Top quality lab facilities

• Small lab on platform

• Prevention by high hygiene standard and vaccination

• Fish health the biggest challenge in aquaculture

• Daily removal of dead fish

• Silage of dead fish

- 29 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

How to get started?

• Start with:

– Small cages

– Concrete platforms with storage of bags and silo

– Feed by feeding gun or remote control from small boat

– Well boat for harvest and transport of feed or work boat for this

– Ensilage tank for dead fish on platform

- 30 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Indonesian capacity

• Capacity

• 10 x 20 nautical miles

• 12 sites per 100 square nm

• Or 24 per 200 square nm

• 8300 tons per site

• Total 100 000 tons per cycle per square

• Total for the area 1mill tons per year

• Per site:

• Maximum 15 kg/m3

• 48 cages – 15 m deep net

• 120m circumference

• REMEMBER YEAR CLASS SEPARATION

• FALLOWING OF SITES

- 31 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

Investments per site of 48 cages

• Investments Mill. USD

• Platform 1.7

• Cages 120m, 48 pieces 5.0

• Nets 48 pieces 2.0

• Moorings 1.3

• Total 10.0

•

- 32 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 33 -

USD per kg %

Juveniles 0.41 11.2

Feed 1.83 55.0

Insurance costs 0.03 1.0

Salaries 0.28 8.4

Depreciations 0.19 5.7

Other operating c 0.55 16.5

Financial costs 0.04 1.2

Prod. Cost per kg 3.33

Round fish ex. Farm. 1USD = 6 NOK

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

The future

INDONESIA HAS AN UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY

AND WILL OVER TIME BECOME THE NO 1 IN THE WORLD

IN MARINE FISH PRODUCTION!!

The limiting factor will be the markets!

- 34 -

MARINE FARMS ASAMARINE FARMS ASA

- 35 -

Aknowledgements

Thanks to:

Akva Group – Marine Harvests- Ewos – Akva Gen

for help with pictures