Here’s a video about the Freshwater Institute’s closed-containment aquaculture system. Bell Aquaculture has been working closely with Steve Summerfelt of The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute since launching its current expansion program in June 2011.

Link to the Freshwater Institute’s website: http://www.freshwaterinstitute.org

Further, says Lingle: “As our country, and world, seeks sustainable, quality food options, Indiana Soybean Alliance is very pleased to be supporting this effort to provide healthy, great-tasting and ecologically responsible fish options for consumers. We’ve been working closely with Bell Aquaculture since its inception in 2005 to develop more sustainable, soy-based feed options for the aquaculture industry.”

The ‘Future of Fish’ on January 11th included tours of Bell Aquaculture’s production and processing facilities, followed by luncheon presentations from Fred Binkowski, Senior Scientist, School of Freshwater Sciences  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Steven T. Summerfelt, Ph.D, P.E., Director of Aquaculture Systems Research, The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute; Dr. Espen Staubo, President & CEO of Low Salinity, Inc., and Virginia Cobia Farms; and Steve Hart, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Soy Aquaculture Alliance.

The luncheon was prepared by chefs from The Chef’s Academy, Indianapolis. Entrees featured breaded Bell Perch and Virginia Farms Cobia and Pompano.

Link to the news release pdf: http://www.bellaquaculture.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/NewsRelease-FutureOfFish-JointRelease-Final-for25Jan2012.pdf

View video from the January 11th ‘Future of Fish’ event: http://www.youtube.com/user/BellAquaculture/videos

“Sustainability is at the core of Bell Aquaculture’s operation, and extends to the feed used to raise their fish. The company has worked closely with the soy industry to develop and test feeds that grow fish efficiently and provide the same great taste as wild-caught fish.”

Link to the magazine pdf (Bell article is on page 18 of the pdf)

Link to the video: http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/indy_style/kitchen/perched-for-perfection

Bell Perch is available for purchase online at: http://bellaquaculture.myshopify.com/collections/our-products/perch-fillets

Link to the Basil & Orange Bell Perch over Linguini recipe at the site.

Link to the Blueberry Perch Breakfast Bake recipe at the site.

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“Seven Hoosier companies will divide nearly $2.5 million in federal grants to make energy efficiency and alternative fuel improvements. The recipients were awarded funding from the Conserving Hoosier Industrial Power grant program and the Alternative Fuel Vehicles retrofit program…

The Conserving Hoosier Industrial Power (CHIP) grant program is making funding available for large energy efficiency projects in Indiana commercial/industrial sector. The first four recipients of CHIP funding in 2011 are Bell Aquaculture of Albany ($467,494.00), Brightpoint North America, L.P. of Plainfield ($500,000.00), MD Logistics of Plainfield ($212,374.00) and Ryobi Die Casting USA in Shelbyville ($500,000.00). These awardees will use the funding for lighting retrofits, HVAC, controls, motor, pump and insulation upgrades.”

Link to InsideINdianaBusiness.com

“‘Vertically integrated’ is a phrase that Bell uses frequently in describing itself: pretty much self-sufficient, relying only on outside suppliers for fee. Other than that, they’ve built their own little world in five years’ time and can definitely call their fish their own, from broodstock and eggs, to harvesting and processing on the other end. With their existing facility, Bell is looking at producing 1.8 million yellow perch in a one-year growout cycle. The new addition that’s currently under construction (with plans to be up and going by October) will add another 3 million yellow perch a year to Bell’s forecast. But wait – it doesn’t stop there: Bell’s next expansion will boost that number significantly, with the company hoping to have the capacity to handle an additional 7.5 million perch by 2013.”

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Quoting from the special report in the September 26th Indianapolis Business Journal by Sam Stall:

“The ISA’s golden boy is Redkey-based Bell Aquaculture, the state’s only industrial-scale fish farming outfit. While Indiana’s aquaculture industry produces only 1 million pounds of fish annually, expansion plans at Bell will double that number by next year.

And the technology the company is developing could pave the way for even higher production. Put simply, company officials have figured out how to raise their fish—yellow perch—indoors under highly controlled conditions, just as chicken and hog farmers do.

The company’s plant raises 1.8 million fish annually. That number will balloon to 3 million when a $5 million expansion wraps up in 2012.

To no surprise, Bell President Norman McCowan is bullish on Indiana’s aquaculture potential, believing that the state (and his company in particular) possesses the three things necessary to make a go of it: sustainable technology, readily available food (soybeans) and water, and funding.”

Link to the ibj.com article (subscription required)

“The U.S. aquaculture industry needs to focus on sustainable production and consolidate itself like other protein sectors such as chicken, the country’s largest yellow perch producer told FFI, adding that the country’s insatiable demand for healthy protein should increasingly be met by domestic players.

‘I see the demand for healthy seafood raised in a sustainable manner increasing in the near future,’ said Norman McCowan, president of Bell Aquaculture, a yellow perch-producing company that recently invested $5 million to expand its production facility in Albny Indiana, and plans to raise 20 million yellow perch by 2016.’”

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