Stacks Of Harvest
WINE&DINE|May/June 2018

Apollo Aquaculture Group believes vertical fish farming is the way of the future

Charlene Chow
Stacks Of Harvest

Eric Ng, group CEO of Apollo Aquaculture says, “The animals we deal with don’t know what an ocean is. They were spawned on land, grown on land without antibiotics or hormones, and they taste excellent. Some of our customers say the taste of our fish comes pretty close to those caught in the wild.”

For the past three years, his company, erstwhile known for exporting ornamental fish, has built up a following for their landfarmed fish. Some 110 tonnes a year of hybrid grouper (a cross between tiger and giant grouper), coral trout and shrimp are produced at their 480sqm farm in Lim Chu Kang. The seafood is supplied to consumers and restaurants such as Tung Lok and Crystal Jade. But Apollo doesn’t just farm fish on land, they house them HDB-style, in a three-tiered 10m-high facility. Two ponds occupy each tier, each measuring 88m³.

“Our set-up allows us to farm intensively. Sea cage farmers do about 25 to 75kg of fish per cubic water. In our system we can do 150 to 250kg. And that’s just in a single storey. A vertical farming system certainly achieves a higher productivity value per square metre compared to sea cage farming.” Apollo’s prototype suits land-scarce Singapore so well that they are working with infrastructure consultancy Surbana Jurong to build vertical fish farms in the heart of the city.

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