The PR Aqua Design and Engineering team helps our clients make the right choices with systems design, technology integration and product selection, maximizing the value of their investment. We understand the needs of our aquaculture clients to be:

Meet and exceed production goals

Achieve and maintain optimal product quality

Maximize return on investment

Minimize cost of production

Advance sustainability

We help our aquaculture clients optimize the balance between these competing demands every day. PR Aqua specializes in developing culture systems, influent treatment, and effluent management design solutions for aquaculture facilities. We also assist our clients in integration of modern fish handling protocols and equipment into their facilities.  Our extensive experience and accumulated expertise have made PR Aqua the name first considered as the most comprehensive solution provider in the aquaculture industry. 

Depth of Experience

PR Aqua is a world leader the large-scale in­tegration of water recirculation and partial reuse technologies in the design and construction of aquaculture facilities. PR Aqua delivered its first recirculating aquaculture production system using fluidized sand bed biofilters back in 1997 to the International Aqua Foods Ltd. hatchery facility in Bingham, Maine. Since that time PR Aqua has continued to improve on the efficacy of intensive aquaculture system design and to date has delivered more than 30 successful systems to a wide variety of aquaculture applications throughout North America and around the world. Our depth of experience, knowledge, and expertise with intensive aquaculture systems provides our client’s with confidence in the success of their projects, and ultimately the successful operation of their facilities.

Philosophy and Approach

PR Aqua provides a full spectrum of aquaculture specialty design services extending from project conception to construction completion and commissioning.  Beyond the commissioning phase, we also offer on-going operational support and training to ensure continued operational success of every facility we design. The following links provide a description of PR Aqua’s design philosophy and approach for many of the services we offer:

Based on our experience in managing and designing aquaculture projects, we have developed a Phased Design Approach to delivery of our services.  This approach to project planning and cost control is effective at minimizing the risks and maximizing value to our clients during the project development process.