We are thrilled to announce the opening of our newest office in Townsville, QLD. With the appointment of our newest staff member Nathan Cleasby. Nathan is highly experienced in Prawn and Barramundi farming as well as water bioremediation and RAS design and construction. 

Nathan and our QLD office will provide local support for all of our Nth QLD customers and increase FBD’s capacity further in this growing region.

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We will be in Blenheim  for the annual New Zealand Aquaculture Conference. The theme this year is ‘Growing Together’ and we are proud to service and support this growing industry.

The 2019 New Zealand Aquaculture Conference will be held, September 18-19, at the Marlborough Convention Centre, Blenheim.

Day 1:  8:00am – 5:00pm, Cargill EWOS drinks 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Day 2:  8:30am – 4:30pm, Cocktail function, 6.30pm – 10:00pm

With inspiring speakers, amazing seafood and unparalleled networking opportunities, this is New Zealand’s best primary sector conference.

 

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We are proud to announce we have signed contracts with the University of Waikato to supply and construct a state of the art Macro Algae Research Centre in Tauranga, New Zealand.

The facility will include 2 x RAS systems with both Saltwater and Freshwater capabilities as well as Saltwater and Freshwater supply and filtration systems.

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We are proud to be the Gold sponsor at this year’s Ridley Australian Prawn Farmers Association Symposium. It’s a great honour to support the Australian prawn industry and this fantastic event every year. We are also sponsoring the Awards and exhibiting in the trade show. We are looking forward to seeing you all in Brisbane.

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We are proud to announce that Fresh By Design has been appointed official distributors for Dryden Aqua for the Aquaculture and Aquaria markets in Australia and New Zealand. We are excited to work with a company highly focused on sustainable solutions such as Dryden’s AFM – Activated Filter Media made of recycled glass. Please contact us for more information on Dryden Aqua products.

Dryden Aqua Products:

Activated Filter Media (AFM)

Dryden Aqua Air Diffusers

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CLIENT: Cawthorn Institute

LOCATION: Nelson, NZ

YEAR: 2018

Fresh By Design is proud to announce the completion of the one of the world’s largest, purpose built, Chinook Salmon research facilities for Cawthron Institute’s new Finfish Research Centre (FRC) in Nelson, New Zealand.

The FRC has 6 individual systems – four large feed trial systems and two smaller physiology systems that can be run on either freshwater or seawater. The facility was designed to conduct Chinook Salmon research from fry through to harvest size, however it can also be used for multiple fish species due to the flexibility in design.

Each of the individual systems have 8000L or 2500L litre bespoke fibreglass tanks with dual drains and swirl separators for waste collection and analysis. The water is mechanically filtered through a Faivre Drum Filter into an MBBR Bio-Filter before cascading over a degasser into a level-sensor controlled sump. Return water to the tanks is supplied via VSD-driven Waterco Pumps, Ultra Aqua UVs and FBD Oxygen Cones with FBD automatic dosing and emergency systems.

Looping off the sumps are RK2 Foam Fractionators with ClearWater Tech Ozone Generators and Oasis Heat Pumps. Supporting services for incoming water treatment system we supplied included storage tanks, Waterco Media Filters, Ultra Aqua UVs, FSI Bag Filters and Grundfos demand pumps. Low Pressure (LPSA) Oxymat Oxygen Generators were also included for onsite oxygen supply to the FRC and the existing systems.

The stocking and feeding rates designed into the systems, will allow applied research under a range of commercial, variable conditions and have significantly increased the capacity of Cawthron to carry out finfish research. This project for Fresh By Design is the culmination of many years of working with Cawthron and includes supplying a smaller existing Salmon Research system and a Scampi research system.

Other project partners included Hays and Associates, Scott’s Construction, Ecad and Boulder Bank Electrical.

Chris Blake our NZ Manager based in Nelson is providing post project support.

We are pleased to introduce Chris Blake as our NZ Aquaculture Manager.

With a strong background in operating RAS systems, Chris is based in Nelson, NZ and manages Fresh By Design’s New Zealand operations.

Chris graduated with a Masters by Research in Sustainable Aquaculture and Fisheries, from Swansea University in the UK. The focus of his research was fish nutrition. Since graduating he has been working in a number of different areas across the aquaculture sector. This has included: running the RAS wet labs with a focus on fish health for AquaBioTech in Malta ; managing the hatchery operations for one of Africa’s largest vertically integrated tilapia farms; through to managing RAS production facilities for marine larvae. He has worked all across the world from Norway to Malta, before returning to New Zealand. Chris has proven experience working with a number of commercial aquaculture species.

Chris can be contacted on:

Phone +64 21 180 7995

Email chris@freshbydesign.com.au

CLIENT: Seafarms

LOCATION: Innisfail, QLD, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2018

FBD completed the design, supply and installation for Seafarm’s new Prawn Broodstock system at their hatchery outside of Innisfail, Queensland. This system is to further the research on prawn broodstock and domestication to reduce the need for wild caught stock. This was a joint project between Seafarms and James Cook University. The system comprised of 16 x 10,000L tanks run by two independent filtration systems. Each tank uses airlifts to increase tank water movement and waste removal. The system includes Faivre Drum Filters, RK2 Fractionators, MBBR Bio-Filters, Pentair UV Sterilizers and Sparus Pumps with Constant Flow Technology and Oasis Heat Pumps.

The research conducted at this facility will benefit the entire prawn industry and we are grateful we could be involved with this project.

The Algaefree Ultrasound System emits sound waves that prevent algae growth and remove existing algae, barnacles and crustaceans.

The Algaefree Alpha units have been proven in applications such as:

• Hatchery larval tanks
• Sea Cages
• Water storage tanks
• Water Supply and Discharge Pipelines
• Ponds and Lakes
• Boat Hulls.

CLIENT: King Reef Seafoods (Sealord)

LOCATION: Cowley, QLD, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2017

This project was a renovation and upgrade of a unused former nursery. The facility overhaul included a Faivre Drum Filter, MBBR, AST Bead Filter, RK2 Freshwater Fractionator and Ozone Generator, PCI VSA Oxygen Generator, Grundfos pumps and Pentair UV Sterilisers. The system is controlled and monitored using the OxyGuard Pacific, with real time monitoring and alarming of DO in every tank and also pH, ORP and Conductivity in the sump. An Aqua-life Fish Pump and Faivre Grader and Counters made up the fish handling and grading system. The system is designed for on-growing of fry to supplement existing production. It will also improve the quality and quantity of fingerlings to their existing farm, as well as ensuring continuity of supply throughout the year.

Fresh By Design recently attended the annual Ridley Australian Prawn Farmers Symposium. This year it was again hosted at the world famous Royal Pines on the Gold Coast. The symposium was a huge success with fantastic keynote speakers and large delegate numbers.

Fresh By Design has been a sponsor of the symposium for 8 years now and shows our commitment to the Australian prawn farming industry. This year we also sponsored and presented the industry awards.

Thank you to Ridley and the Australian Prawn Farmers Association for organising another great symposium.

Recently, we were proud to be Silver sponsors at the annual New Zealand Aquaculture Conference held in Nelson. It was great to catch up with so many of our NZ customers.

Fresh By Design recently attended the annual Australian Prawn Farmers Symposium. This year it was hosted at the world famous Royal Pines on the Gold Coast. You may have heard on the news that just before Christmas 2016, prawn farms on the Logan River were wiped out from a new virus, White Spot Syndrome Virus. As expected this was the hot topic of the symposium with presenters from all over the world providing advice and support to the Australian farmers.

Fresh By Design has been a sponsor of the symposium for 7 years. This year we were able to sponsor and present the industry awards, the drinks for the gala dinner and continuing a tradition of sponsoring up and coming, industry relevant university students or researchers to attend and present at the Symposium.

Thank you to the Australian Prawn industry for having FBD, congratulations to all the award winners and we will see you at the next one.

The Varicon Aqua 600L Phyco-Flow we supplied and installed at UTS, Sydney was mentioned by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) on the late evening news.

On the way to the new Cairns Aquarium for the start-up of their biological filter systems. We’ve got 63 litres of Bio-ONE super concentrate and 25 litres of Nitrospira MKII super concentrate. This load of bacteria is destined to treat over 2 million litres of water covering both freshwater and saltwater exhibits.

Fresh By Design worked with Cairns Aquariums to formulate a dosing regime and start up procedure to kick start their filter systems for the arrival of their first load of inhabitants.

CLIENT: Huon Aquaculture

LOCATION: Millybrook, TAS, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2017

FBD completed a project including design, installation and equipment supply for the Millybrook flow through farm. This was a site upgraded to include improved water filtration, upgrade oxygen systems, full design of pipework layout and supply of equipment.

We supplied FBD Oxygen Cones, FaivreDrum Filter, Grundfos supply pumps and VSD’s.

Project collaborators included BCElectrical, Cromartys and Global Poly Contract.

CLIENT: Cray8 Fisheries

LOCATION: TeAnau, NZ

YEAR: 2017

Design and supply of equipment upgrade for a Lobster purging and live holding prior to live export to Asia.

CLIENT: Tassal

LOCATION: Ranelagh, TAS, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2016

FBD commissioned an Atlantic Salmon incubation system for TASSAL at their Rookwood Road Hatchery. This was to improve the quality and capacity over their existing system. FBDs role included design of the filtration system using existing building footprint and existing Comphatch layout, along with supply and installation of equipment. System included Waterco media filters, carbon, zeolite, Pentair UV sterilisers, RK2 Freshwater Fractionator and circulation pumps, Grundfos main supply pumps, Degree C chilling system, FBD degassing unit, backup diesel pumps.

CLIENT: Tasmanian Eel Exporters

LOCATION: Bagdad, TAS, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2016

The Finlayson family engaged FBD to build a recirculating aquaculture system to grow-on eels captured in the wild.

The RAS includes 20 x 9000L Polymaster Tanks with a filtration system designed around a peak feeding rate of 525 kg/day. Water is pumped into the tanks through 4 x 960watt Pentair U.V. Sterilizers, then through an oxygen cone (FBD Model 1) on each tank to maintain stocking densities up to 150kg/m3. Water leaving the tanks is gravity-fed via floor channeling, to a Faivre 16/120 Drum Filter fitted with 36µm screens, and then through a Moving Bed Bioreactor (MBBR) and bio block degassing unit into the sump. Additional filtration is provided by an RK600PE Freshwater Fractionator, to which ozone (RK2, 15g/hr) is added to enhance water quality control.

Further control over dissolved solids (TDS) is ensured by the inclusion of an AST (Aquaculture System Technologies) Propeller-wash Bead Filter, with an automatic backwash control system. Australian designed and manufactured Turbine pumps were chosen for their energy efficiency, serviceability and reliability. They also negate any concerns over nitrogen super-saturation given their submersed design. Feed is delivered automatically via an Arvo-Tec feeding system over 24 hours at 1-3% of biomass per day.

CLIENT: University of Tasmania (IMAS)

LOCATION: Taroona, TAS, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2015

Located at IMAS’s Taroona fisheries and aquaculture research centre, the EAF is the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.

It features recirculation aquaculture systems, 12 tanks of 7000 litres, 12 tanks of 2500 litres and two stock tanks of 13 000 litres.

A modern Experimental Aquaculture Facility (EAF) for directed, commercially-relevant research, is fundamental to ensure the economic and environmental sustainability of these important industries for Tasmania, Australia and internationally – now and into the future.

CLIENT: Huon Aquaculture

LOCATION: Springfield, TAS, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2015

Design and installation of a 340,000L recirculating broodstock conditioning facility.

CLIENT: Dolphin Marine Magic

LOCATION: Coffs Harbour, NSW, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2014

FBD completed a filtration installation for Dolphin Marine Magic. This was an Australia Sea Lion Exhibit to be part of a new public display for education and entertainment.

FBD supplied design and installation of the filtration systems including supply of Horizontal Filters, AFM media, RK2 Fractionator, RK2 and Waterco pumps, CWC ozone generator and chlorine doser.

CLIENT: DPIPWE Mount Pleasant

LOCATION: Prospect, TAS, AUSTRALIA

YEAR: 2014

Design and installation of a freshwater and seawater research system for salmonid vaccine development and testing.