AQUA FISH FARM

About Us

Aqua Fish Farms is located in the southern tip-of-Texas by the Rio Grande River on 104 acres of land. Our main source of water is from the Rio Grande River, which is delivered to the farm through an irrigation canal. The farm also has additional water source from wells with excellent water quality and warm temperature which is utilized for overwintering of brooders from non-cold tolerant species. Our farm is comprised of several earth ponds averaging 5-6 acres each, several earthen raceways for brood fish, indoor raceways and tanks for overwintering tilapia brooders, an 8,000 square ft, hatchery with a modern biological filtration system, research laboratory and an oxygen generator room.

Our emphasis over the past two years has been research, development and construction of unique hatchery facilities to produce high quality fingerlings of various species for the fish farming industry for their final growth and sale to the food fish market.

Our Tilapia Brooders have been obtained from prestigious research centers around the world and selected to achieve our goal to produce Tilapia fingerlings without color contamination, with high performance growth and food conversion efficiency, and optimum tolerance to salinity, cold weather, low dissolved oxygen and handling tolerance.

Recent consultation with Dr. Rex Dunham, Alumni Professor of the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures at Auburn University, Alabama, and expert on hybrid catfish reproduction, has enabled our farm to initiate production of the channel catfish, Ictalurus punctatus, female X blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, male. The hybrid is the best catfish for pond culture, far surpassing the performance of both channel catfish and blue catfish. Production of this catfish hybrid was successfully obtained in 2003, and production is projected to be over Five Million Fingerlings for 2004.

Aqua Fish Farms is the first fish hatchery and farm to successfully produce catfish hybrids in commercial quantities in Texas and the expectation of incrementally increasing the production of the hybrid catfish is our main goal.

Our Channel and Blue Catfish Brooders are pure Rio Grande Strains and they have been meticulously selected to obtain top quality fingerlings. These brooder stocks are maintained in special ponds for their natural reproduction to maintain a large number of catfish for the selection of the new generation of brooder stock.

Our business is focused mainly on the production of high quality fingerlings and to make them available to the fish farming industry for their final growth to food fish size. Scientific research, both by our biology staff and in collaboration with Universities and outside experts are essential for the ongoing and future success of Aqua Fish Farms benefiting our customers with access to improved fingerlings from the most recent technological advances.

AQUA FISH FARMS STAFF

Aqua Fish Farms maintains a staff of professionals such as:

Water quality control operator licensed by Texas Commission on Environmental and Quality (TCEQ).

Biologists with Masters degrees in fish genetic, production and fish nutrition.

Certified Lab technicians for monitoring fish health and prevention against diseases.

Biologists with Doctorate in fish genetic and experts in the hybridization of Catfish.

Associates professional Medical Doctors and experts in nutrition for human health.