Aquafauna Bio-Marine, Inc. (ABM) was founded in 1977 as a provider to the tropical aquaculture sector supplying larval diets, maturation and broodstock conditioning diets, and equipment. During the 1980’s, ABM was involved in over 65% of all marine shrimp, scallop, and fish hatcheries constructed in the Americas and during the 1990’s, over 90% of all hatcheries constructed in Mexico and Central America. Aquafauna Bio-Marine, Inc. has also fully supplied over seventy hatcheries in India, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Myan Mar through private and public institutions like USAID, United Nations F.A.O., and Asian Development Bank.
First larval feeds offered in 1977 was the Brazilian strain of Artemia cysts. Since then, over twenty other diets have been offered for tropical crustacea, finfish, and bivalve sectors. In the past five years, ABM has worked with high-tech companies like Monsanto and BASF to perfect component ingredients that are high in HUFA/PUFA which are essential for developing larvae of most finfish and crustacea. Some of these diets are designed to make life easier on the aquaculturist and not necessarily designed for the larval stages, but for rotifer culture and enrichment stages for both rotifers and Artemia.
ABM has also been a pioneer in closed system maturation and hatchery systems for bio-security. We have several units exceeding 200 m.t. in operation for maturation broodstock programs.