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Culture Technology

RPI uses the world’s leading tested technologies for the cultivation of marine and freshwater prawns. We also have experience in the culture of other tropical, subtropical, and temperate climate crustaceans, molluscs, and finfish.
Specializing in the culture of marine shrimp, RPI’s Aquaculture Division is recognized internationally. We have conducted projects in over a dozen countries, providing a wide range of technical services, including all aspects of project planning, development and execution.

Examples...

Resource Management

The development of coastal aquaculture has placed additional strains on already sensitive coastal ecosystems. This is particularly evident in the development of marine shrimp aquaculture, where in several locations the impacts to the coastal ecosystem have been dramatic. In several instances, RPI has been called upon to assess such impacts, and to propose standards and criteria which must be implemented to halt further deterioration without jeopardizing the survival of the shrimp culture industry.

Site Selection

In the process of locating suitable sites for aquaculture facilities, RPI has surveyed tens of thousands of hectares of coastal habitats.

Feasibility Studies

RPI is frequently called upon, by both private industry and government agencies, to determine the technical and economic feasibility of a project. In addition to technical assessments, our reports include detailed economic and financial information, presented in the required format of the banking institution in the host country. RPI produces the technical design of an entire project, including the facility layout for both hatcheries and grow-out ponds, as well as materials and equipment lists.

Project Operations

We operate both hatcheries and grow-out facilities for clients. This requires the dispatching of experts to live and work on-site, with technical and specialty support provided by our home office.

Training

In addition to actively training local technicians during project operations, RPI conducts specialty short courses, instructing technicians and managers alike in all aspects of shrimp and prawn culture.

Export and Marketing

We have experience in the international marketing of cultured marine and freshwater prawns, including identification of buyers, trade name development, trial shipments, quality control and import compliance issues.

Fisheries

The exploitation of fisheries resources often includes the ongoing expansion of existing fisheries and the development of potentially underutilized stocks.

In order to maintain sustainable stocks, these resources must be carefully managed to avoid over-exploitation, which can lead to a fishery collapse.

Management of the resources must include habitat protection, while at the same time balancing the economic reality and pressures from the commercial, artisanal, recreational and subsistence fisheries.

RPI has addressed issues such as these in the Strategic Plan for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture for Guadeloupe and in the Study of Spawning Aggregation Areas in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.