Aquaculture focus at EuroTier 2008

International manufacturers, outfitters and
institutions showing modern production techniques, feed, services and
accessories for all aspects of fisheries, aquaculture and environmental
technology will be meeting in Hall 26 at the Exhibition Grounds in Hanover from
11 to 14 November 2008. The product range includes complete fish farms, feeds,
filtering and oxygen input technology, right up to trout eggs from the USA
available all year round.

Leading recirculation farming enterprises
represented
Interest in closed circuit fish farming is increasing
steadily, as these installations allow fish-keeping without a location by a
stream or river being necessary. In these location-independent fish farms, the
soiled, warm water is cleaned using filter technology and water conditioning and
returned to the fish basins. The leading enterprises for closed circuit
techniques are represented at EuroTier 2008. Furthermore, an internationally
leading enterprise for feeding installations and animal husbandry systems from
the pig and poultry sector is participating in the aquaculture sector for the
first time and showing a new style of indoor fish farms.

Feed and
feeding techniques – key areas
Reducing costs by efficient feeds and
feeding systems, modern production techniques and new energy concepts are just
some of the themes at this year’s market place for aquaculture at EuroTier.
Commercially successful fish breeders make optimal use of water as a production
factor, using high-grade feeds and innovative technology. In Hanover they will
meet exhibitors from the ventilation and oxygen enrichment sector. Feed firms
and feeding technologists will show how fish meal can be replaced by plant
proteins, and how automatic feeding systems can increase weight gain and lower
costs.

Heat from biogas plants for fish-keeping
The question
of using the heat from biogas plants in warm water fish systems was already one
of the exciting topics at EuroTier 2006. Now the first installations are “on
line” in the bioenergy installations and technologists will be showing first
results and new systems at EuroTier 2008.

Exhibition – Forum –
Advisory services
The combination of market place with exhibitors,
information in the Forum Aquaculture and the possibility of obtaining impartial
advice in a specially established Advisory Center Aquaculture proved successful
already at past exhibitions. This concept attracts large visitor numbers and
international contacts from all areas of agriculture. For instance 6,000
visitors showed interest in aquaculture in the course of an impartial survey
conducted at EuroTier 2006.

New international partners at the Advisory
Center Aquaculture
Dutch aquaculture experts from the University of
Wageningen UR (University & Research) and Wageningen IMARES will be
participating in the Advisory Center for the first time and together with
experts from the Chambers of Agriculture, the DLG and trade associations will
answer questions concerning topical issues of fish-keeping and modern
technologies.

Report innovations to the DLG
EuroTier is
considered to be the largest innovations market for the European and world
market of machinery, installations and farm inputs for professional animal
husbandry. This is why leading manufacturers present their innovations and
further developments for 2008/2009 in Hanover. An international commission of
experts appointed by the DLG will award Gold and Silver Medals to registered
innovations on the basis of strict criteria. In 2008 too, this innovations
commission will include experts for the assessment of innovations from the
aquaculture sector. That is why exhibitors from the aquaculture sector are urged
to submit their innovations and further developments.

Further information
on aquaculture at EuroTier 2008 is available from the DLG where the contact
person is Dr. Birgit Schmidt-Puckhaber, tel. +49-5031-912772, or email b.schmidt-puckhaber@DLG.org. Information is also
available on the Internet at www.eurotier.de/aquakultur.

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