Aqua Bridge Farm’s Company hatchery in Al-Lith, Makkah Province, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has achieved an important milestone by becoming the first hatchery to produce the juveniles of European sea bream and European sea bass in the Kingdom at commercial scale.
This is an important step in fulfilling the Vision 2030 of the Saudi government which envisages a seafood production of 600,000 tonnes by 2030.
Aqua Bridge produced 3 million juveniles in the year 2019 and has a production target of 10 million juveniles for the year 2020 of which 5 million have already been produced and delivered to local farms, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
European sea bream and sea bass are among the most popular species for aquaculture projects in the region and the localised production of their fingerlings further enhances their appeal.
The quality of the juveniles produced in Aqua Bridge hatchery has been vouched as giving better results in terms of growth rate and survival compared with juveniles that were previously imported. The Aqua Bridge hatchery is also the first BAP-certified marine finfish hatchery in the GCC.
