For thousands of years, the ancient Chinese have practiced aquaculture. This art of farming seafood might be the answer to the world's growing demand for seafood. In recent years, the demand has resulted in depleted lake and ocean stocks and an increase in industrial-scale fishing. With fish prices getting higher and higher each year, the financial incentives have given rise to new challenges: Not only how do we produce more seafood, but of a better quality and that is safe to our environment?
Out of his childhood concern over the cleanliness of the Chautauqua Creek fish he was eating, Dr. Jere Northrop of Westfield NY developed a new innovative biotechnology platform. Dr. Northrop(CEO) along with Aaron Resnick (President), formed the Westfield companyTimberFish Technologies in 2008, with the aim of producing contaminant-free fish and seafood. "We plan to accomplish this by switching from using grain and fishmeal to plant substances for feeding fish raised on farms," said Dr. Northrop. By controlling the entire process, from food supply to waste management to reusuable energy by-products, TimberFish believes that their "what-you-put-in-is-what-you-get-out" model is not only sustainable, but also environmentally sound.
TimberFish's patented wood-to-food conversion might seem like science fiction, but the team is working hard to make it science-fact. The technology converts harvested wood, into already existing microbes, drying the residue, then splitting the difference - half becoming fish food, half to create energy.
TimberFish's innovative technology has the potential to transform seafood production, not just on a local scale, but also on a global one as well. Coupled with the benefits to the environment, such as reforestation, reusable clean energy and the jobs that the technology can generate, TimberFish is set to be a company to watch in the not too distant future.
At present the company is working in tandem with the Westfield Development Corporation board as well as with State officials towards finding investors and eventually constructing an R & D facility in Westfield.
For learn more information on TimberFish Techologies, visit them at their website www.timberfishtech.com
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