To build a one-hectare indoor aquaculture farm, a photovoltaic company has to invest about NT$70,000,000; to build a one-hectare non-indoor fishery-electricity symbiosis aquaculture farm, one only has to invest about NT$50,000,000. Yet Kuei-Kuang Chen deems that his investment is still worthwhile because the environments of indoor fish farms can be controlled to avoid fish damages caused by changes of heavy rains, strong typhoons, high temperatures, and cold waves.

In order to switch to the fishery-electricity symbiosis, Kuei-Kuang Chen has been studying pond fishes and shrimps for the past five years. Though he learned everything from scratch, the questions he raised stumped a group of professional aquaculturists. When raising fishes and shrimps, he studied variables such as temperature, wind speed, flow rate, and light transmittance as well as calculated the width and height of the beams and columns. All these actions were to create an aquaculture environment with suitable temperature, pH value, and oxygen content.

He introduced technology into his aquaculture farms. The underwater monitoring system not only record clearly the movements of fish and shrimps but has length numbers engraved on the sides of the ponds in advance. As soon as white shrimps flash over the screen, their sizes can be revealed. Fishermen only need to sit in the office mostly for remote monitoring and patrol the farms personally once in a while.

Source: Interview, Issue 1254, Business Today

(Translated by Sunny Rich Group)