July 3, 2014 

Bell Aquaculture opens Aqua feed Mill in Albany, Indiana

Bell Aquaculture LLC has officially opened the Bell Farms™ Aqua Feed mill in Albany, central Indiana, US.

The mill marks the completion of a vertically integrated aquaculture farm that Bell has been developing. The integration includes a 1,000-tonne fish farm, an in-house processing facility and production of value added products generated from capture and cultivation of by-products.

"A longtime dream has been realised here today. I am very proud of our team, our partners and our community for working together to make this dream a reality and take this critical step toward providing a solution to our coming food deficit." said Norman McCowan, president and CEO of Bell Aquaculture LLC.

"This truly is a momentous occasion and a milestone in what Brian Baldwin and I began almost a decade ago," said Michael Miller co-founder of Bell Aquaculture LLC. "It is amazing to see what a group of individuals can come together to achieve."

Led by Dr. Steven Craig, who has over 25 years of experience in fish nutrition, the feed produced at the mill will be tailored to the nutritional, biological and physiological needs of specific species at key points in the life cycle of the fish, making the mill the first of its kind to produce feed locally to service the aquaculture industry on a mass scale.

Bell Farms™ is expected to produce about 2 million pounds of feed per month.