VARS technicians during hatchery trials at a partner facility in the Aegean region
Hatchery Expertise · Advisory · Sourcing

We help you design and build hatcheries, put experienced people inside them, and fix what isn't performing

We are not an engineering or construction firm. Our specialists have worked inside marine finfish hatcheries — broodstock, larviculture, live feed, biosecurity and water quality — and we bring that experience to the people designing, building and operating yours. Sourcing and advisory across salmonid ova, live feed and hatchery equipment worldwide.

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Recirculating Aquaculture System (RAS)

98% Water Recirculation Efficiency
1. REARING TANKPure O2 Flow2. DRUM FILTERSolid Waste >30µm3. BIO-FILTERAmmonia Bio-Conversion4. UV / OZONE99.9% Pathogen Kill5. O2 DEGASSERCO2 Strip & O2 InjectCONTINUOUS CLOSED-LOOP RECIRCULATION • 98% WATER RECOVERED
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Primary Rearing Tank

High-density clean oxygenated water environment for optimal fish & shrimp growth with continuous waste removal.

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Four ways we work with hatcheries

Most clients arrive at one of these four points. Pick the one that matches where you are.

Starting from zero

Build it

You have capital and a site, and need a hatchery that actually produces. We work alongside your contractor and equipment suppliers from feasibility study to first commercial batch — the biology and process expertise a construction contract does not come with.

Feasibility, site and water assessment

Market analysis, species strategy, site viability and the water-quality work that decides whether the project is buildable before you commit capital.

Hatchery and RAS design support

We set the biological requirements your engineers design to — tank layout, flow, filtration and capacity sized to your target output — and review their drawings against what the animals actually need.

Equipment selection and procurement

Specification and sourcing through our direct manufacturer network, so you buy the right kit at the right price instead of whatever a single vendor quotes.

Commissioning and start-up

On-site commissioning, live feed culture establishment, biosecurity protocols and the first production runs, until the facility is genuinely ready for commercial output.

Licensing and EU/GCC compliance

TRACES registration, veterinary health certification and ASC/GlobalG.A.P groundwork prepared during the build, not retrofitted after your first export is refused.

Technical leadership

Staff it

You need people who have done this before, inside your operation. We place experienced hatchery specialists and the technical leadership to hold a production plan together — the roles below are ones our people have held.

Broodstock and reproductive programmes

Broodstock selection and conditioning, spawning management and egg production planning, built around a breeding strategy that holds egg quality season after season.

Larviculture and early life stages

Larval rearing management targeting survival and uniformity — weaning protocols, grading and the early-stage practices that decide what reaches your grow-out.

Live feed production systems

Rotifer (Brachionus spp.), Artemia and microalgae production plus enrichment protocols. Our SV-12 trials in the Aegean lifted rotifer density 8-fold in three days, against 85% Artemia hatch rates.

Production planning and KPIs

Annual production plans, capacity management, budgeting and the KPI reporting that tells you where a cycle went wrong while you can still correct it.

Biosecurity and fish health

Biosecurity protocols, disease prevention, health monitoring and quality assurance — designed to keep pathogens out of a sterile recirculating system rather than chase them once inside.

Water quality and system performance

Monitoring and interpretation of the parameters that actually move survival, with environmental control and system performance held inside their operating windows.

Technical team leadership and training

Production team supervision, structured technical training and competency development — so your own people can hold the standard once our specialists step back.

SAP and AquaManager configuration

Configuring SAP and AquaManager for production tracking, inventory, batch traceability and reporting. Few hatchery consultancies do ERP work; we do.

Already producing

Improve it

The facility runs, but the numbers don't. We audit what's happening biologically and operationally, then fix the constraint.

Operational audit and bottleneck analysis

A structured review of production processes and workflow to find the actual constraint — which is rarely the one being blamed.

FCR and growth performance

Feed conversion, ingredient digestibility and feeding-regime analysis, with the formulation changes that move cost per kilogram.

Live feed stability

Diagnosing rotifer and Chlorella culture crashes, ciliate contamination and inconsistent Artemia enrichment, then rebuilding the protocol so it holds.

Export readiness audit

Auditing packing, cold chain and documentation against EU and Middle East import requirements before a rejected consignment teaches you the same lesson.

Supply and trade

Source it

Direct access to the inputs a hatchery runs on — eggs, live feed, additives and equipment — through relationships we already hold.

Salmonid ova and fertilized eggs

Atlantic and Coho salmon and trout eggs from certified, disease-free broodstock, shipped eyed and cold-chain verified with full origin traceability.

Live feed and microalgae

Artemia cysts, decapsulated Artemia and fresh Chlorella, supplied to hatcheries across Türkiye, South Korea and the Middle East.

Equipment and feed additives

RAS equipment, oxygenation and filtration through our manufacturer network, plus aquafeed ingredients — fish meal, wheat gluten, potato protein.

Export logistics and documentation

Reefer and air-freight logistics with customs brokerage, temperature-logged and documented to clear EU and GCC border inspection.

Not sure which of these you need?

Tell us the species, the capacity and what is going wrong. We will tell you whether it is a build problem, an operations problem or a supply problem.

Talk to the technical team

Schedule a Technical Consultation

Speak directly with our senior advisory team about your upcoming project or operational challenges.

Questions & Answers

Frequently asked questions

The questions buyers ask us most about this page. The full set, filterable by subject, lives on our FAQ hub.

Yes — RAS engineering support, rotifer enrichment protocols and hatchery troubleshooting are part of our solutions work, not a separate consultancy business. It exists because a customer whose larval survival is limited by their system, not their feed, is not helped by selling them more feed.Consulting & solutions

Product-specific protocols, incubation and enrichment guidance, and direct access to our technical team for troubleshooting. For larger programmes we work through the problem with your biologist against your own production data rather than sending a generic datasheet.

As the feed for the rotifers themselves and as green water in the larval tank. In our Aegean hatchery work, replacing legacy paste feeds with Super Fresh Chlorella SV-12 raised rotifer biomass roughly eightfold within 72 hours. Live microalgae also stabilise water quality in the culture, which is usually what limits density in practice.

Yes — fish meal, vital wheat gluten and potato protein meal for feed mills and on-farm formulation, in full-pallet and container lots with the analysis for each lot. They sit in the same catalogue as the hatchery inputs because most of our customers buy across both.

Yes, and for HORECA and distributor accounts it is the normal arrangement. We agree a standing volume and delivery day, hold the allocation against it, and adjust ahead of seasonal demand peaks. Continuous programmes also make certification and documentation routine instead of a per-shipment exercise.

Yes — our project record covers Aegean hatchery rotifer optimisation, the first certified Atlantic salmon ova delivered into South Korea, Japanese hatchery ova supply and RAS modernisation work, with the operators named where they have agreed to be. For a like-for-like reference in your own segment, ask and we will introduce one.See project case studies

Yes. Production data, formulations and commercial terms shared during a consulting or supply engagement are treated as confidential, and we will sign your NDA. Nothing appears in a case study without the client's agreement — which is why some of our project work is described without naming the operator.