Mermaid-Aquaculture - Referenzprojekte
Werner Gaus‘s R.A.S. ReferencesIn 1989, he sold and commissioned the first industrialized module for intensive indoor eel farming. In Denmark, the total annual output reached 30 tons of eel (about 180,000 pcs.) in a holding volume of 150m³ water. Although this plant is the first to use this technology it could provide high-quality eel to the local Danish fish market.
In 1991, he perfected the performance for his indoor eel culture systems by introducing technologies for Oxygen-supersaturated process water and Micro-mechanical screening of solids for the production of eel in the Netherlands with an annual output reached 120 tons of eel (about 720,000 pcs.) in a holding volume of 600m³ water.
In 1992, he delivered to Waren, a City in eastern Germany a circulating water treatment system for a indoor trout and sturgeon breeding plant to increase the existing production and to improve the safety level. The plant concrete structure breeding tanks had an annual output reaching 200 tons of trout in a holding volume of 1000m³ water. Sturgeon (500 m³ water, with an annual output of 50 tons) and a number of salmon fry to be released in the rivers in a small system holding 200m³ water.
In 1993 Germanys Demin and respectively Bornhoeved he consulted and established the annual output of 25 tons of FRP super-intensive RAS indoor farms for the production of Eel and Sturgeon.
1994-1996 he was invited by the National Iranian Ministry of Fisheries (Shilat) to deliver and commissioned five sets of indoor RAS farms in Rashd (near the Caspian Sea), and Yasud (Southern Iran) For this systems he developed a new farming model - large cement breeding tanks in race-way design in combination with an high-performance water treatment system. 2 sets of them for the nursery and breeding 5,000,000 of sturgeon fingerlings; 2 sets used for the breeding of Caspian salmon, with an annual output of 5 million salmon fry. All fingerling and fry are produced to be released into the Caspian Sea or the rivers flowing in to it. Further a trout farm with, with an annual output of 500 tons was build using the same design.
1997, he supported in the German city of Kiel Europe's first indoor factory Turbot nursery plant with technologies to remove suspended solids in fry production to be sold to grow out market in Spain with an amount of fingerlings 500,000 pcs p.a..
1998, he was challenged to design and commission the world's first indoor RAS Ayu (Plectoglossus altivelis) farm in Taiwan/ Taipei with an annual output of 100 tons holding 700m³ water. This plant was specially designed to withstand earthquakes. This was proven in 1999 when an earthquake struck the City of Taipei with a magnitude of 7.8. No damages were recorded and the output of 100 tons was reached safely.
In 1999 he establishes two RAS indoor farms in the United Kingdom near Cambridge the total annual output reached 100 tons of Tilapia and 100 tons Hybrid Stripe Bass in a holding volume of 1400m³ water.
In 2000 the Japanese Hazama Gumi, a Japan's semi state enterprise, agrees to acquire and establish the World’s first RAS farming system for the vertical farming of shrimp from Werner Gaus and a long lasting R&D co-operation period was bearing the fruits of all efforts when this technology finally was internationally patented and approved in 2003 with the patent number: JP2003023914. During this time the “Litopenaeus vannamei” was introduced by Werner Gaus to Japan the first time as a live species and received national certification for the import of the white shrimp to be cultured in Japan in RAS systems from thereon.
2002-2007 Werner Gaus brought RAS indoor farming technology to South Africa and a number of FRP indoor farms were built to mainly grow African catfish, with a total annual output of 3000 tons. (Now exceeding the national amount of trout production) Each individual farm has an annual output of 200 tons of catfish in a holding volume of 300m³ water.
From 2008, Werner Gaus with his renowned perceptive Aqua-culture knowledge but limited time has reduced his activity to teaching and consulting as a RAS specialist in all aspects of modern Aqua-culture. He consults well known companies like the German/ Cologne based Turkish company “INKAS Bau GmbH” for their Aqua-culture projects in Turkey.
Turkmenistan received consultation to install a technical Department for fin fish farming techniques, for water quality control and to provide technical support to future farmers. Further challenges where developing a strategy for the establishment of a sustainable sturgeon caviar production.
The privately owned “Inter IKEA” group from Belgium/ Waterloo engaged Werner Gaus as sole aquaculture consultant in regards of placing large scale aquaculture projects throughout Europe mainly to the breeding of meagre, cobia, red snapper, hybrid striped bass and barramundi. Each of these projects size covers an area not less than (57 Ha) with an initial investment not less than 350 million euro per unit.
With his network of experts and multi-national research institutes worldwide he is also often asked to give academic lectures like at the Vechta University in Germany about the advantage and chances of RAS systems in March 2011. A report was later published in the German Nieke newspaper (Nieke is a German semi governmental competence centre for edible foods).