Modern Aquaculture

As a world’s leading fish commercializing company, MAC has been developing its fisheries in many different directions, and has accumulated experiences and wide research background. Modern Fish farming co, has been rendering support in solving problems in this sector’s and thus, has been privileged to broad its activities to many countries.

MAC owns the largest fish farms in the Levant region with an estimated total area of 2,000 acres, spread across Jordan. These are segmented into fresh water, brackish and semi salty water, with different kinds of tilapia and crop.

The fish farming industry widely includes, freshwater fishing, saltwater fishing, fish farming, fish hatchery, commercial fishing, fish processing, marine farming, fish skinning, fish farming supplies, and organic fish farming. Frozen fish, tetra fish, salt water fish, fish food, fish feeds, fish bait, fishmeal, fish oil, and fish stock are some of the products of this industry.

MAC fish hatchery is a place for artificial breeding, hatching and rearing through the early life stages of fish, and produces larval and juvenile fish, shellfish and crustaceans which are then transferred to our fish farms where they are on-grown to reach harvest size.

Genetic modification is conducted in some hatcheries to improve the quality and yield of farmed species. Artificial fertilization facilitates operate selective breeding programs which aim to improve production characteristics such as growth rate, disease resistance, survival, color, increased fecundity and/or lower age of maturation. Genetic improvement can be mediated by selective breeding, via hybridization, or other genetic manipulation techniques.

Although wild-caught juveniles are still utilized in the industry, concerns over sustainability of extracting juveniles, and the variable timing and magnitude of natural spawning events, make hatchery production an attractive alternative to support the growing demands of aquaculture.