Superior Aquaculture’s Floating Raceway System is truly a “RAS within a Pond”. The outdoor-based, highly simplified system has been proven to produce very high densities of many species, while maintaining a sustainable, healthy environment and capturing both solid and soluble raceway discharge.
When operated in a closed pond setting, the system is usually a zero-discharge system, without the need for periodic cleaning. It has been listed as a “Best Management Practice” in North America.
While, in most cases, the system is best operated with electric power (WITH emergency back-up), It’s REAL source of power is solar power captured primarily by solar seeking, ever-moving, pond-based algae, and other plants. Empirical evidence suggests that the pressed algal oil collected from the system, plus the additional solids can be sufficient to yield a NET ZERO energy budget.
In short, the very storm-tolerant, almost indestructible system, is designed to serve as the mechanical ‘mother ship’ or operating platform for almost any or all of the many other functional components of a traditional RAS, biofloc, aquaponic, integrated multi-tropic, or aquamimicry practice.
The system can operate in both small ponds, and with the aid of more robust docks and wave attenuators, in medium to fairly high energy environments.
Comments and questions are welcomed.
– Jay
Jay Warecki, Ph.D.
Superior Aquaculture, LLC