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Comment by Phil Slaton on November 11, 2012 at 10:55pm

@Chris - Excellent point.

Chris are you the member that had the business plan for the small aqua culture evelopment?

Comment by Chris Smith on November 11, 2012 at 10:16pm

I would suspect that many successful small scale operations might fly below the radar and not want to bring on the publicity of writing books. Publishing would create competition and alert the taxman who wants a big piece of the pie.

Comment by TCLynx on November 11, 2012 at 12:15pm

Ah, ok that does narrow it down.

I am looking for case studies.

Comment by Phil Slaton on November 11, 2012 at 11:07am

I am looking for case studies.

Comment by TCLynx on November 11, 2012 at 11:05am

Phil,

   There are plenty of books on Aquaculture and recirculating aquaculture.  However, finding a book that tells you how to cookie cutter a successful business of anything, well even if you could find a book that tells you exactly how some one else was successful, I don't know that such a thing really translates to somewhere else.

See The actual farming method is one thing, making it into a successful commercial business is quite another.  Anyone who claims to have a fool proof method to use to create a successful business if you just follow their methods, well, they using that on you, they are taking your money but I don't think you can expect what they sell you to let you do the same thing, at least not for long.

Heck even successful Franchise brands are not always successful when a new store opens and they have the follow the rules to success about as down pat as anything.

Comment by Phil Slaton on November 11, 2012 at 8:58am

Is there a book on how they did it?

No one seems to publish a book on how these small scale operations were done.  If I am wrong, and I wouldn't be surprised if I were, please post some titles.

Comment by Bob Campbell on November 11, 2012 at 8:53am

@Phil - I recently visited this commercial catfish farm.   I see no reason that it could not be scaled back.  I doubt that they started out with 14 ponds.

Homes.com puts a value of 254K on this farm which I'd guess to be a little less than 20 acres.  This is Northern CA where water is readily available.  But the utility costs for pumping it are high.

Comment by Phil Slaton on November 11, 2012 at 8:01am

Thanks, Matthew.  What I meant to say was that I never found a book on ''Mini Commercial Fish Farming.''  All the ones that I found were on million dollar+ projects.  No little guy operations.  And my belief is that commercial fish farming is not scalable down.

Comment by matthew ferrell on November 11, 2012 at 3:51am

There are several books over the decades on commercial fish farming.  There is also SRAC publications.

Comment by Phil Slaton on November 10, 2012 at 7:15pm

I am just replumbing my ''Mini Commercial Fish Farm" here in Washington.  I have a pond and a grow house with 5-1300 gallon rotomolded tanks.  I raise Koi, Trout and Catfish.  I have learned a wealth of information about how not to do it - I know how Tomas Edison felt.

There are no books on the subject of commercial fish farming, much less ''Mini Commercial Fish Farming."  The big issues that I have dealt with are:

Tank Layout

Filter Establishment

Water Quality

Water Aeration

Water Heating for the Catfish and Koi

Grow House Heating

Believe me, I am writing up a case study on my project as a book.  I know a 1,000 ways not to do it.

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