INVE Aquaculture sets new standards for responsible aquaculture.

The brine shrimp Artemia is a well-known, convenient and indispensable live food for the industrial aquaculture of most marine fish and shellfish. What determines the success of Artemia? Not only its availability as a nutritious live prey, but also the possibility of tailoring its nutritional value to the hatchery needs and its flexibility of use in an industrial hatchery environment.

The use of Artemia requires the hatchery operator to separate the freshly hatched brine shrimp nauplii from the cyst shells. This complex process usually involves sedimentation or decapsulation processes.

 Today, INVE Aquaculture has made this a redundant step by launching an innovative product & process called SEPArt. This is the new Artemia Technology for a sustainable and efficient one-step separation of hatched nauplii from the cyst shells.

The process yields pure Artemia nauplii without the use of chemicals or complex manipulations.

The advantages are multiple:

• Pure & highly vital nauplii separated from cyst shells;
• No use of toxic chemicals (decapsulation);
• No environmental impact;
• No adverse health effect for the hatchery workers
• High nauplii yields through elimination of losses.

The use of SEPArt Artemia does not require any structural modifications or changes in incubation or harvest protocols. Using the INVE SEPArt cysts and the dedicated equipment (SEPArt Tube separator or the high throughput CysTM unit) simplifies the process and excludes the need for any additional energy.

SEPArt brine shrimp cysts are currently distributed to more than 150 customers in Asia and the Americas. It has also been demonstrated at several main European marine fish hatcheries and has been enthusiastically received as a major step change in the hatchery operations. SEPArt is now ready to be launched in the European markets.

With SEPArt, INVE Aquaculture highlights its commitment to innovating aquaculture to the highest standards and supporting sustainable and environmentally friendly practices. SEPArt Technology is patent pending in all the major aquaculture countries of the world.

INVE AQUACULTURE is the pioneering specialist providing nutritional and health solutions to aquaculture hatcheries and health products to aquaculture farms for more than 25 years.

More information?  inveaqua_bu@inve.be