Our Mission
Piscine Energetics manufactures sustainable, nutritionally complete fish food supplying aquaculture markets, Zoos and Public Aquariums, and aquarium hobbyists.
Piscine Energetics is a win-win sustainability and commercial success story – helping reverse an environmental disaster while producing one of the world’s best premium aquarium fish food products.
In the late 1960s, Mysis Shrimp were introduced to Northern Canadian lakes with the belief that dwindling lake fish stocks would rebound by feeding on the new food source.
The initiative backfired.
Native Kokanee Salmon couldn’t feed on the Mysis Shrimp that resided in the deeper, cooler waters of the lake during the day. Meanwhile, the Mysis would ascend to the lake surface during the night and gorge on phytoplankton, robbing the juvenile salmon of their main food source.
Fish stocks eventually began declining even more. PE came forward with a brilliant solution. Working closely with government researchers, the company introduced a world-first harvesting methodology to net the Mysis Shrimp. At the same time, they feasted on phytoplankton through the night and throughout the warm seasons.
In one fell swoop, we were ridding the lake of a dangerous invasive species and giving the young salmon a fighting chance while at the same time harvesting the Mysis Shrimp loaded with nutrient-rich plankton.
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