Bringing Open Ocean Aquaculture to Puerto Rico
Who is Innovasea?
Land-Based
Aquaculture
We design and build sustainable, replicable solutions that optimize processes, improve production and increase efficiency.
Open Ocean
Aquaculture
Our deep expertise and advanced technologies create comprehensive aquaculture solutions built to survive and thrive in the open ocean.
Aquaculture Intelligence
Our sophisticated software and emerging technologies help automate operations and boost production.
Who is Innovasea?
Why
did we pick Puerto Rico?
The Planning Process
Innovasea won a SeaGrant award to develop the project
• Three years: Sept 2025 – Sept 2028
• Includes URP SeaGrant officer Rene Esteves Amador as well as local social scientists Emmanual Maldonado & Nicolas Gomez
• Goal is to derisk the project
• spatial planning
• site characterization
• farm planning
• vendor evaluation
• stakeholder engagement
• Permitting is not included in the scope of the grant
Location
NOAA’s NCCOS team is leading a spatial planning exercise
Location
On site data collection includes
• Bathymetry survey
• ADCP: waves & currents
• aquaMeasure: temperature & oxygen
• Drop Camera: benthic video
• Sub-bottom profiler: sediment composition
• Photospectrometer: water chemistry
• Bacteriology through selective plates
Location
Project Plan - Species
Project Plan - Species
• Red snapper is target species
• Red drum & almaco jack are highly viable alternatives
• Farm will start with 4 pens and grow to 24 pens
• Production will grow from ~400 tons to ~5,000 tons per year
• Fingerlings supplied by Cultimar Technologies (on-island)
• Feed supplied by ADM Animal Nutrition (on-island)
Project Plan
Appendix
Acoustic Release
