Commercial property, 3255 m²

Fiumefreddo di Sicilia, Catania (province)

1. Activity description:
The present aquaculture plant is part of an activity protocol for a pilot plant, of an experimental-demonstrative nature, unique in Italy, for the intensive breeding and controlled reproduction of the Yabby, which the IX Service of the Department of Agriculture and Forests of the Sicilian Region wants to carry out as part of the "Aquaculture Project" approved and financed with DDS n°842 of 07/09/2005. The aquaculture plant for the breeding of the "yabby" crustacean is located in rural activities geographically south-east of the built-up center of Fiumefreddo di Sicilia in Contrada Vignagrande, a large agricultural area and Fiumefreddo. The plant consists of three bodies , called body "A", body "B" and body "C", respectively the office and service headquarters, the reproduction and nursery sector and the fattening sector.
Body "A", as mentioned above, will host both the rooms used as an administration office and those for hygienic use and changing rooms for those involved in work activities; in particular, the latter are equipped with two toilets separated by sex, one of which is designed for disabled people; these rooms will be finished with ceramic tiles on the floor and up to a height of 2 meters for the walls and are equipped with the suitable sanitary components, toilet, sink and floor shower.
The office environments, furnished with a desk and accessories, will have air-lighting surfaces equal to or greater than 1/8 of the plan surface, as per the attached "Table A".
As mentioned above, breeding activities take place inside buildings "B" and "C"; these bodies are made of a load-bearing structure with uprights and arches in 60mm diameter galvanized steel tubes, bolted together, covered with transparent PVC sheeting, typically like tunnel structures for greenhouses.
In such structures, natural lighting occurs through the transparency of the covering sheet of the same, while ventilation will be guaranteed both by the entrance openings and by the lateral opening by lifting the transparent PVC sheet along the entire perimeter of the bodies themselves; this will guarantee compliance with and exceeding the ratio of 1/8 of the plan surface.
In body "B" in addition to the so-called "yabby reproduction" tank, it is intended for a reproduction and larval breeding environment. Inside there are 12 fiberglass tanks measuring 100ml. 1.00 x ml. 3.00 in fibreglass.
In body "C" there are 16 tanks arranged in a fiberglass battery with a diameter of 3.00 ml, and two masonry tanks measuring 32.00 x 5.00 ml; The actual breeding takes place in these tanks until the "yabby" crustacean is fully grown, suitable for marketing.
As regards the relationship, the lighting of bodies B and C will be of the natural type with a surface equal to their entire extension as the greenhouse-type structure will, as mentioned, be covered with darkening net to limit excess light and heat. Suitable artificial lighting will be provided, through the application of an adequate number of ceiling lights for watertight fluorescent tubes with IP65 protection rating, positioned above the tanks along their length; these bodies, which can be used in sectors, will guarantee an adequate level of illumination of at least 200 lux on the pools and in the nearby walkways, during the evening hours of activity.
2. Processing cycle
The work that concerns the activity in the "B" and "C" bodies essentially consists on the one hand in providing the right quantities of food in the tanks, which is positioned once a day in the center of each of them and which is composed of a mixture (mush) of vegetal substances mixed and stored in special refrigeration cells positioned in body "B"; on the other to select individuals by size and size, since the adult and larger ones, prevailing over the smaller ones, must necessarily be divided and moved to different tanks.
Other planned activities are: cleaning of the tanks, which takes place using a high-pressure washer and manual tools and which must be carried out approximately once every four months, involving the total emptying of the same for individual sectors, of which the tanks are made up, and in an alternating manner for two single tanks at a time, so as not to interrupt the production cycle;
furthermore, periodic checks and cleaning of the mechanical filters and the phytopurification tank will be carried out to avoid clogging.
As regards the control of water from a chemical and biological point of view, it will be carried out by the University of Palermo.
3. Water cycle and disposal This aquaculture plant will be tested as a mixed cycle plant with regard to the use of water, which will be supplied by an existing artesian well for agricultural use duly reported to the Civil Engineering Office of Catania upon request for concession preferential protection 22012 of 06/21/2006; in fact, considering the small extension and the limited flow rate of water necessary for the operation of this system, approximately 0.5 l/s per tank, it will be possible to use the water from the well in an open cycle to provide the required flow rate during daylight hours and mainly in the summer period, flow which will be dispersed in phytopurification through special mechanical filters, as specified later; while in the evening and night hours, in the intermediate and winter seasons and on non-sunny days, primary water will not be supplied from the well, but the water existing in the tanks will be used in a closed cycle; a suitable recirculation system will move the water through the mechanical filter and a subsequent biological filter and air will also be introduced through insufflators for oxygen enrichment.
More specifically, the operation of the aforementioned mixed cycle system is carried out as follows: in the open cycle the water extracted from the artesian well is introduced into special storage tanks, at least 20m³, in order to stabilize it thermally and from here pumped directly into the fattening tanks , with a flow rate of 3l/s, at the end of which the water will be conducted into a special mechanical filter and then into phytopurification to be then disposed of in the nearby Forche torrent; while in the case of a closed cycle, the water purified by the mechanical filter is collected in a subsequent tank and from here pumped into the previous storage tanks, which in this case will feed a biological filter at the outlet from which the water will be put into circulation in the tubs.
As regards the reproduction system and nursery present in block "B", they will be operated in a closed cycle for a better and necessary control of the temperature of the water used for the reproductive cycle, with the same methods described above.

With the same purpose and to integrate the above project by exploiting the recirculation water in a sustainable way, he created a mango plantation adjacent to the company covering an area of approx. 3253 of flat land made up of 580 plants of the following qualities: Kensington, Pride, Kent, Tommy, Naomi.

An activity that is unique not only in Italy but even in Europe, it is highly sought after and has an enormous development capacity with a truly significant earnings projection