Interested in incorporating aquaculture in your community and urban garden space? This website serves as a clearing house for such information, including planning worksheets to incorporate aquaculture protein production or begin an aquaculture venture.
Aquaculture has inherent risk, just as other agricultural enterprises; however, due to the required technical knowledge and the inherent start-up costs, there is significantly more need for planning to build this type of business. Planning for an aquaculture business means examining the feasibility through several categories: financial, market, people management, and species biology (Brune et al., 2023).
These Google forms represent the following types of planning that need to be conducted before investing in this type of protein production:
Aquaculture Business Model: examine the feasibility of different business models and revenue strategies that might match your facility through a series of directed questions and resources.
Aquaculture Species Selection: review information about many of the species aquacultured in the United States and their cultivation requirements and how that changes your system requirements.
Aquaculture System Planning Worksheet: Determine what type of system design is appropriate for your site and what market strategies will work with the community. Review common questions that need to be addressed for overall functionality.
