Stage: Post development, Follow this link for more information.

Northbay’s third lobster hatchery is designed for efficiency throughout the whole system.

Lobster Cube is based on a square grid with each tray holding 100 lobsters and the whole unit holding 2000 lobsters, making it easy for operators to manage. The system operates on a single pump allowing automatic bath or continuous feeding. A new innovation allows for circulating water to be re-oxygenated during all modes of operation.

The new Lobster Cube has two options: Manual and automatic valves.

Between 1 to 10 lobster cubes can be integrated into a single system with no resetting of water flows or individually closing feed cycles. The system currently comes with trays which hold 100 juvenile lobsters each, and North Bay Innovations designed two additional tray variants to accommodate lobsters to a larger size.

Stage: Operational

Northbay Innovation Ltd. (previously as Northbay Shellfish Ltd) was a leading partner in a major European research project (Oysterecover 2010-2013) which identified key parameters necessary for restoration efforts for the European Native Flat Oyster (Ostrea edulis.)

This project was the driving force behind multiple long-term restoration projects in England, Scotland, Wales, France, Netherlands and Germany.

These areas likely had extensive oyster beds in the past, but due to overfishing, disease, or environmental factors (or a mix of these) these beds were reduced to small pockets or even ceased to exist.

Today, the single limiting factor in restoring the Ostrea edulis to our waters is obtaining young oysters (spat) which are:

• Disease-free
• Big enough to place in the bed
• Numerous enough to have the critical mass necessary to sustain the bed

Northbay Innovations Ltd.’s goal is to help supply this much-needed spat through development of hatcheries, nurseries and spatting ponds using disease (Bonamia) free stocks in disease-free locations.

Stage: Prototype is in trials.

This is a new crustacea incubator designed for the European and American lobster, but with a small alteration as the unit can be switched between air and water as the circulation generator.

It’s also designed to work with the larvae of spiny lobsters and the Norwegian lobster. The incubator will take the lobsters through their first larval stages before being transferred to The Lobster Cube.

This system is specifically designed to work with The Lobster Cube and minimises system operations by using an air bar to generate micro-vortexes throughout the vessel, minimising contact between larvae.

Northbay’s Taurus Incubator is designed to be suitable the following species:

• European lobster
• American lobster
• Nephrops
• Palinuridae