Recently, our company just taken delivery of the newly designed floating fish cages for the Year 2008 project. The project is to develop and operate a floating fish cage at the Pelumpong Spit with over 100 cages.
Unlike traditional and most common floating fish cages found in Brunei waters, we choose to be different and forward thinking. We selected and imported the ETER Model C floating aquaculture frame. It is made from HDPE which can last well over 15 years, rot maintenance free and it is highly buoyant and UV resistant. This will ensure both our operating and maintenance cost at a manageable level.
The traditional wooden frame will need maintenance or replacement every 2 years and can be very costly on the long-run as based on my own experience operating and managing floating fish farm both in Pelumpong and Pulau Keingaran.
A total of 7 ocean going containers arrive in September and November of 2007 respectively for the delivery of our new floating fish cage frames, with a total investment worth well over B$400,000. We would like to thank BIBD and the Fisheries Department that has helped our company to do so.
It is expected by February of 2008, we will began our first operation with initial stocking of Asian Seabass (Ikan Selungsong) and Hybrid Tilapia for the local market. Then it will follow with Grouper (Ikan Kerapu) sometime in March or April (subject to seasonal fingerlings availability) for the export market.
Another project in the aquaculture is also well underway for the setting up of Seabass hatchery, in which I have been selected to lead the project for another company.
I believe with my experience both in the freshwater and marine fish farming, in hatchery and grow-out phase, will be able to move the project ahead and to make Brunei one of the leading aquaculture players in Borneo after Sabah. I will also use my experience in exporting Mouse Grouper (well over 2,500 kg) to Hong Kong (2005) to market the grouper for the lucrative Chinese export market.
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