A NANAIMO company, PR Aqua, has won the contract to design and engineer re-circulating systems to raise fish in two huge new hatcheries in Alaska.

”We are honoured to have been selected to participate in two of the largest aquaculture projects in North America," said PR Aqua president Wayne Gorrie. "This was a worldwide competition.”

Alaska is building the hatcheries to meet growing demand from anglers. Several species such as Arctic char, Arctic grayling, lake trout, rainbow trout, chinook and coho salmon will be hatched and raised until large enough to be released into lakes.Nearly $70 million US will be spent on the hatcheries, one in Fairbanks, called the Ruth Burnett Sport Fish Hatchery, and a larger facility in Anchorage, as well as on other projects.The hatcheries, which account for the vast majority of the cost, should be running by 2009.The contract is expected to boost PR Aqua profile, building on its success in the United States where it has customers in Alaska, Utah and Wyoming. Established in the mid-1980s, the company is owned by Gorrie, Roger Coleman and Susan Earl. It also manufactures equipment for the aquaculture industry and has more than 20 employees. The Fairbanks hatchery will grow Arctic char, Arctic grayling, lake trout, rainbow trout, chinook and coho salmon, to double the current production in that area of 22,000 kilograms of fish annually. At Anchorage, all the same species, except for lake trout, will be raised for production level of 150,000 kilos.

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