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- Peter Drucker, Management Expert & Economist

2018-02-26

Aquapri: pike perch RAS a valuable diversification

From the exhibition "Fish International" in Bremen, Germany, Morten Holm, sales manager of the Danish company Aquapri, says that the new Pikepperch recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) facility has been a valuable diversification away from relying on trout and trout roe.

In April 2016 the company - a trout farmer for some 60 years - inaugurated its RAS unit (after archaeological findings in 2014 postponed construction, and necessitated relocation of the entire construction).

Germany is quite a big market for pike perch; at the moment we do a little bit of sales here, but we see the potential for more.

The RAS unit produces between 500 and 700 metric tons of pike perch per year, largely sold in Scandinavia and central Europe.

Being RAS-produced the fish is of course marketed on its sustainability credentials, though the Aquaculture Stewardship Council does not yet have a standard for pike perch.

Trout, and its roe, tends to follow salmon in price, and so has been volatile over the past year, Pike perch has been a useful diversification, but is not yet profitable, Holm said.

"There are a few RAS in Denmark now, but none, I think, are profitable yet. For us, it's improving. It will be profitable."

 
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