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WALSH CONSULTING
21  Pilgrim  Rd.
Dennis,  MA  02638
phone/fax:508-385-2415                   e-mail:dwalsh@capecod.net        
                                                 

DESCRIPTION OF THE BUSINESS

General Background

Walsh Consulting has helped shellfish aquacultural operations in South 
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts and Chile. The $40 million 
joint ventures in South Carolina and Chile operate the largest hard clam 
and scallop vertically integrated aquaculture operations in the world. 
Walsh Consulting has more than doubled their algal food production and 
improved shellfish hatchery seed production significantly at both 
facilities. Walsh Consulting has just completed a contract with the 
largest hard clam hatchery in Virginia and is negotiating with a new $20 
million mariculture venture in Alaska.

 Mr. Walsh has 21 years experience in marine biology, 18 of which were 
spent at commercial aquaculture ventures in the United States. Walsh 
Consulting expertise is in the area of molluscan and algal aquaculture. 
Services include:

=C4 business plan development
=C4 system analysis
=C4 managerial assistance to start-up ventures
=C4 development of commercial production protocols
   and standard operating procedure (SOP) manuals
=C4 assistance in hatchery and field grow out techniques
=C4 design of mass algal culture facilities
=C4 algal strain isolation/purification
=C4 algal cell harvesting via crossflow filtration
=C4 nutritional bioassays and water quality analysis

Feeding protocols are available for each life stage of the  shellfish 
from straight-hinge larvae to post-set spat of 5-8 mm in length. These 
protocols result in exponential growth of the shellfish in the hatchery 
and linear growth in the nursery phase.

Mr. Walsh is an advisor to several marine biotechnology firms which can 
provide your company with new heterotrophic algal product that are 
similar in proximate analysis to T-Iso, but are enriched with the 
essential fatty acids EPA and DHA. These fatty acids have been shown to 
be critical for larval growth and metamorphosis, but at the same time to 
be deficient in hatchery-reared bivalves.

Walsh Consulting is a virtual consulting company which relies on working 
closely via Internet with numerous associates who each have their own 
specialities:
 
      - Mr. Paul Hundley, P.E. owner of Applied Aquatics of Mt. 
Pleasant, South Carolina, has 20 years of applied engineering experience 
in marine and aquacultural water and wastewater treatment systems. 
     -Shellfish marketing and distribution assistance is available from 
R. J. Learson and Associates of South Hamilton, Massachusetts. 
     -Expertise in site selection and permitting is  available from 
Aubrey Consulting of Woods Hole, Massachusetts.            
     -Research and field studies expertise on host parasites 
interactions in shellfish populations is available from Dr. George E. 
Krantz of Oxford, Maryland. 
    -Wetlands and Aquatic Concepts, Lucretia Krantz, President is a 
consulting firm dedicated to ecologically sound development and cost 
effective utilization of wetlands and aquatic resources. 
 - Mr. Scott Morris of Cape Cod Research in Falmouth, MA can offer a 
variety of innovative anti-fouling paints for aquacultural nets and 
pens. These paints do not rely on copper or tin, but the generation of 
minute quantities of hydrogen peroxide, and therefore are 
environmentally safe.
-Dr. Vance Lipovsky of AquaBusiness Management, Vancouver, British 
Columbia, specializes in international aquaculture, business plan 
development, hatchery design and shellfish grow-out operations.

Walsh Consulting is a member of the Aquaculture Internet Network and has 
access to technical expertise from around the world. Let us put our 
extensive commercial  aquacultural expertise to work for your company!