Aqua Nor exhibitor Cimbria The Aquatec has designed a 100 tonne capacity CRB (closed recirculated biological) system sturgeon farm which has been built in Saudia Arabia.

Operating company Al-Faris is recording extremely good results and is on course to achieve growth of 7Kg a year, at which rate it expects fish weighing 21Kg in the space of three years.
The sturgeon are being produced for meat and for the caviar market.
The project was transferred from Syria, its originally intended location, in 2001. Al-Faris ha high expectations for the future and has initiated plans for a further phase of development. The results are exciating interest elsewhere in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, Cimbria says.
The saudi sturgeon farm takes a number species for which Cimbria’s CRB system technology has been utilised to ten, including salmon, trout, cod, halibut, turbot, seabass, seabream, eel and pike perch.
“We believe the introduction of Cimbria Aquatec technology opens an important new chapter in the history or sturgeon farming,” says Cimbria operations manager manager Morten Neilsen.
“Caviar is the ultimate epitome of quality. The essence of a CRB system is the control finesse that can be maintained over the water condition of the rearing environment – optimal quality management is integral to the system”.