Large Large- -scale commercial scale commercial Sustainable Industrial Sustainable Industrial

Integrated Organic Aquaculture Integrated Organic Aquaculture (SIIOA) Tilapia (SIIOA) Tilapia
farming project capable of producing 1600 farming project capable of producing 1600
tonnes per annum under construction for tonnes per annum under construction for
Pacific LTD, Blantyre, Malawi, June 2009. Pacific LTD, Blantyre, Malawi, June 2009.
Sub-farming system 1: Lemna minor
Sub-farming system 2: Tilapia Production
Tilapia
Sequential Water Use = Zero Effluent
Nutrient Recovery
Food Source for Tilapia
Figure 30: SIIOA Fish Farming Model.
Manure Input
The Sustainable Industrial Integrated Organic
Aquaculture (SIIOA) Tilapia farming model
presently under development for Pacific LTD
in Malawi will be capable of producing 1600
tonnes of tilapia per annum. The approach is
integrated, intensive, industrial and organic
where the wastes generated from the fish
farming component are utilized in the
production of a valuable aquatic fodder, as
the primary feed ingredient for the fish.
The methodology meets the most stringent
organic aquaculture standards being
extremely environmentally sustainable due to
the fact the no effluents or by-products are
The schematic above illustrates the integrated and environmentally friendly production system to
be employed in the production of 1600 tonnes of Tilapia by Pacific LTD in Malawi.
The two sub-farming systems depicted above embraces a bio-resource use efficient farming
methodology, having few imports and few, if any, off-farm inputs including raw materials, energy,
and nutrients etc.
discharged into the surrounding environment. Well proven tank based culture technology intended
for use offers excellent control over husbandry and production cycles enabling the year-round
production of 350g Tilapia of exportable A-grade quality. Effluents discharged from the tank systems
rather than being directed to the surrounding environment will be used as both a nutrient and water
source in the production of a high-value high-protein aquatic plant crop called Lemna minor.
Figure 29: Oreochromis shiranus one of four
mouth-brooding Tilapia species endemic to
Lake Malawi.
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F18
F20
F21
7.75msloped levee
F19
1.25mpassage
6msloped levee
5m
2m 7m
2.5mwide ramp
access to module 1
0.6mdiameter
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2.5mwide ramp
access to module 2
0.6mdiameter
culvert
2.5mwide ramp
access to module 3
0.6mdiameter
culvert
1mdiameter
culvert
2.5mwide ramp
access to module 4
0.6mdiameter
culvert
A1 = 214 X 25m^2
= 5320m^2
L1 = 688 X 25m^2
= 17200m^2
A2 = 267 X 25m^2
= 6675m^2
L1 = 924 X 25m^2
= 23100m^2
Entrance
2m
Duckweed
drying
tunnels
60mX 12m
=720m^2
Moist feed drying tunnels
20mX 7m=140m^2
Cem4
7m
2m
Guard
House
2mX 3m
N
To Cold Room
and Sales Office
Molasses
tank
24mX 6m
and
10mX 6m
Stores
Pavement/ walkway
Guard
House
Guard House
7m
2m
2m
7m
Arizona
Pond Reservoir 1
Blended
water tank
14.25m
1.25m
Moved S 1mup
Moved N6.25mand up 1m
Moved modules 1 and 2 down 1.25m
2.5m
Moist feed
drying tunnels
20mX 7m=140m^2
Moist feed
drying tunnels
20mX 7m=140m^2
Moist feed
drying tunnels 20mX 7m=140m^2
Molasses tank
Moist Feed Plant
10mX 5m
Workshop
10mX 5m
Dry Duckweed Storage Shed 20mX 10m
Dry Feed Storage
20mX 10m
82.3m
3.8m
203.3m
32.7m
152.7m
127.5m
11.2m
4.43m 2m
322.5m
2.4m
3m
SIIOA large-scale tilapia farm under development
for Pacific LTD in Malawi.
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Figures 31 to 33 (top left to bottom right): A series of pictures showing the progress of
construction works on the Pacific LTD fish farming site notably two nursery rearing modules
including Broodstock Pairing Tanks, MacDonald incubation rack systems near Blantyre, Malawi.
60m 21.5m 33m
72.5m
A
B
C
D
E
14.3m
F
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J
K
L
M
N
A - 917m^2 Arizona solar ponds.
B - Broodstock Pairing Tanks.
C - IFF Greenwater Nursery RAS
D - IFF Greenwater Grow-Out RAS.
E - Laboratory/ Feed Store/ Hatching House.
F - Floor Heat Exchanger
G - Blower room
H - Overhead Air Supply Pipeline
I - Overhead "Make-up" Water Supply Pipeline.
J - Hydronic Hot Water Supply Pipeline.
K - Purging Tank.
L - Inter-Tank Fish Transfer Channel/ Effluent Channel.
M - Lamella Separator (Solids Removal).
N - Effluent Drainage Pipeline.
LEGEND
Single 400 tonne Tilapia Module four of which make up 1600 tonnes of production per annum.
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Figures 34 to 39 (top left to bottom right): A series of pictures showing the progress of
construction works on the Pacific LTD fish farming site notably two modules near Blantyre,
Malawi which includes; 1 - two Arizona Solar Ponds per module, 2 - two nursery modules each
consisting of 8 X 34m
2
modified R-ended tanks and 4 X 34m
2
Broodstock pairing Tanks, 3 - two
grow-out modules each having 4 X 750m
3
modified R-ended tanks and a single purging tank per
module, 4 - plus a shared water supply system which includes a reservoir and water supply
Arizona Solar Pond.