Supplying recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) is probably the hottest industry in aquaculture right now and the subject for a new report from Spheric Research, "Can RAS Turbocharge Aquaculture?"

Norway’s salmon industry, faced with an escalating sea lice problem, is turning to RAS technology to grow bigger smolt on land and make the fish less susceptible to dying when recently seeded in the ocean.

Virtually every leading Norwegian salmon farmer plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on massive RAS facilities on the Norwegian coast to slash ocean pen farming cycles. The RAS salmon smolt project pipeline, now in the billions of dollars, might be Norway’s best chance at increasing output, according to Billund Aquaculture, a leading supplier of RAS turnkey projects [...]