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 CURRENT PRODUCTS
Island Scallops currently focuses exclusively on aquaculture products and is not involved in wild fisheries. Island Scallops is a green company. All seafood products are produced in private hatcheries and grown on ocean farm sites. Currently, the Pacific scallop is the only product that ISL produces, grows, processes and markets. ISL also has produced a variety of other shellfish species including the Pacific oyster, European flat Oyster, Manila clam, geoduck clam, eastern blue mussel, Mediterranean mussel, rock scallop, and sea urchin, which were sold to third party shellfish farmers.
Unique Fisheries Technology
ISL has been a leader in marine hatchery technology for the past 14 years. ISL has developed proprietary hatchery techniques for a number of marine species, most notably hybridizing the Pacific scallop and becoming the first company to produce commercial quantities of sablefish juveniles. Both of these breakthroughs have required many years of research and considerable investment. In the case of sablefish, which is a cold-water fish that spawns at depths of 800-2400 ft, a variety of techniques were required to successfully mature, spawn, incubate and rear the larvae. In addition, there were technical difficulties associated with egg and yolk sac incubation (as well as larvae rearing and weaning) that were resolved using proprietary technology developed at ISL. ISL was only able to reach its goal of commercial farming of sablefish with over eight years of dedicated research and an investment of approximately US$2.4 million.
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