September 26, 2008
Dutch farm to produce algae for shrimp feed
The Happy Shrimp Farm, producer of tropical shrimps in Europe has plans to produce algae.
The first tropical greenhouse-enclosed shrimp farm in the port of Rotterdam, is located in the dunes in the South of Holland.
An ISO 22,000 system is implemented throughout the whole process of shrimp breeding to ensure that hygiene and safety is practiced to benefit the economy and the environment before delivering them over to various high quality restaurants.
Happy Shrimp Farm is establishing the business unit AllComm, that will focus on the algae production. The algae are primarily used for shrimp feed and produced from waste from the Happy Shrimp Farm and heat supplied by the E.ON power plant nearby.
Managing Director of Happy Shrimp, Gilbert Curtessi said that using the algae for shrimp feed only is too limited. Since algae are a very interesting type of vegetation that consume large quantities of CO2, they should also be used as a weapon against global warming, he said.
He continued that in future, CO2 can be isolated from the air and injected in algae ponds to neutralise them. Algae biomass can be used as a source for bio diesel, food supplements, natural colorants, cosmetics and even pharmaceutical applications.
In addition, algae are about ten times more effective as a bio-diesel producer then other energy crops.
