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El Rose Brothers, Norwegian company team up for RAS-based fish farming
The use of RAS technology in the aquaculture sector is expected to produce high-quality fish products in a sustainable manner by utilizing quality control methods developed by the Norwegian company.
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Fish farm at Lusi Island, Sidoarjo, East Java. PT El Rose Brothers and Norwegian company Sterner AS have agreed to team up to develop a fish farming aquaculture business using the recirculating aquaculture system (RAS). (Directorate general for territorial sea management of the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry/File)
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T El Rose Brothers and Norwegian company Sterner AS have joined hands to develop an onshore fish farming aquaculture business in Yogyakarta using the recirculating aquaculture system (RAS).
According to the Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Ministry’s aquaculture director general, Slamet Soebjakto, the two companies have signed an official partnership agreement and plan to start construction in 2020 with an initial production capacity of 2,500 tons of white snapper (Barramundi) per year.
“The project is expected to bring in investments worth US$50 million," he said in Jakarta on Monday.
El Rose Brothers and its partner will also build a hatchery facility, which will support the RAS facility and improve the quality of Indonesian fishery products in general.
The use of RAS technology in the aquaculture sector is expected to produce high-quality fish products in a sustainable manner by utilizing quality control methods developed by the Norwegian company.
The business partnership agreement was signed by Ferry Budiman as the director of El Rose Brothers and Sterner AS director Gisle Larsen in the Indonesia Convention Exhibitions (ICE) Nusantara Convention Hall in BSD City, Tangerang, Banten, on Oct. 16.
Larsen said he was pleased to be working with El Rose Brothers to start a new chapter in the production of onshore fishery products in Indonesia.
