The Blue Gold Foods Tilapia production facility will be a state-of-the-art ‘suspended biofiltration’ aquaculture system engineered for an efficient use of the water and power resources of the site. The closed nature of the system, in contrast to competitive lake and stream cage farms, reduces the potential risk of waterborne pathogens.

The project will be based on a self-cleaning production system, in which sludge is continuously removed from the production ponds by flushing into sedimentation tanks, and the nitrogenous waste compounds (ammonia, nitrite), continuously oxidized by heterotrophic and nitrifying bacteria culture, developing within the production water media.

A balanced ecological state is achieved in which the ammonia produced by the daily feed applied for fish production, is equal to the amount of ammonia required by the bacterial cultures, for its energy and growth precursors.

Blue Gold Foods Tilapia production will be characterized by simplicity of system and procedures in an environmentally sustainable and modular system of covered greenhouses.