Bridging the gap
BIOFISHENCY THE STATS
Igal Magen founded BioFishency with his partner Cobi Levanon in 2013. Together they have spent 20 years in aquaculture. They arrived at the idea for BioFishency’s technology more than 10 years ago, during one of Israel’s many water crises, which dramatically affected the aquaculture industry, forcing the closure of a number of projects due to lack of water, increasing cost of water or energy to pump water. Similar water related issues exist worldwide, especially in developing countries. The company is based in Efrat, outside of Jerusalem.
Upgrade Soluti ons is known internati onally for its ‘Out of the
Tank’ approach. It has the most advanced, readily available,
comprehensive and easily applicable
viable fi sh farming model that recognises and addresses the social and economic needs of the community in developing countries, including development of employment opportunities and SME (small medium enterprise) business opportunities. The initiative will develop its production system among families who
are living around a water source. Using small, modular tanks, a family can operate a number of tanks according to its ability. Each family will receive professional support from a central unit that will supply raw materials, services and purchase fi sh for processing and marketing. Community Fish Farm Project Model In a vertically integrated aquaculture system, typically a high investment and mass production environment, all operational elements are carried out by a single core investor or corporation. But there is an alternative business model, under which production is generated by small, autono- mous entities operating within a co-operative environment. This model is based on a strategy that has a central farm and train- ing centre, offering management support and production coordination to its satellite farms. The proposed strategy is based on this business philosophy, which has been proven to work successfully in a number of developing agricultural/aquacultural economies. We believe that we have developed an initiative that answers the mis- sion we set out to fulfi ll – that of bridging the technological gap between high-end, expensive aquaculture systems and the low-tech aquaculture methods used by the vast majority of the world’s fi sh farmers. Our solution can signifi cantly increase the productivity and profi tability of small scale fi sh farmers without the large capital investment usually associated with the increase, and we are currently working with several companies that implement such projects, mainly in Africa. FF
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water provisioning and storage uses, including those ideal for community fi sh farming initi ati ves. The company’s
portable, quick water tanks are perfectly suited to meet the needs of fi sh farmers as an ideal, cost-
eff ecti ve alternati ve to other types of breeding tanks.
Above and left: The BioFishency system in operati on on an aquaculture site in Israel
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