What this platform is — and what the numbers are not.

AQUAFAQ is the public name of Aqua Fisheries Aquaculture LLC, established in 2020. It is an integrated marine aquaculture platform on Dalma Island, Abu Dhabi: hatchery, feed mill, sea cages and processing, with later shrimp and mud-crab plants planned behind that chain.

Dalma sits in the Arabian Gulf west of Abu Dhabi city, with harbour, road and town already there. The lease uses the island twice: 250,000 m² of open Gulf water for cages, and 156,118 m² onshore for tanks, mill and plant, so seed, feed and harvest do not travel a country.

No. Figures on this site are design capacities stored in the company desk: 40 million juveniles a year, 60,000 tonnes of feed, 20,000 tonnes of cages, 20,000 tonnes of processing, and 5,000 tonnes each for later shrimp and mud crab. They describe the size of the system being built, not fish already landed.

Broodstock and eggs onshore; larvae on live feed, then dry pellets; transfer to floating Gulf cages for grow-out; daily work on oxygen, density and ration; then humane kill, bleed, ice, and processing on the same island. That sequence is the cultivation page.

The mill is drawn at 60,000 tonnes against 20,000 tonnes of cages — three times, so feed sits ahead of the fish rather than behind them. If those two desk figures change, the public site recomputes the ratio.

They are later phases, each planned at 5,000 tonnes. Shrimp are drawn in recirculating (closed) water, kept apart from the cages. Mud crab is drawn in a vertical system. Neither is an extra net on the finfish rings.

Telephone +971 2 553 6357, or use the contact form. Messages are stored for Aqua Fisheries Aquaculture LLC and are not published. No public email is listed unless the desk adds one.