Aquaculture software for fish farms that keeps the lot history intact through a split
An aquaculture fish farm is a production operation that rears aquatic animals under husbandry, and for census purposes it is any place selling or distributing $1,000 or more of aquaculture products in a year. The 2023 Census of Aquaculture counted 3,453 US farms with sales worth $1,908,022 thousand, across 391,851 freshwater acres. Neurobird records feed, mortality, water quality and treatments against the lot rather than the pond, so grading and splitting do not break the history.
Neurobird Aquaculture Fish Farm in short
- Record feed, mortality and water quality per unit daily, in the field, on a phone
- Follow a lot through grading, splitting and transfer so history is not lost at the moment fish move
- Track treatments and withdrawal periods so a harvest date cannot be set inside one
- 3,453 The 2023 Census of Aquaculture counted 3,453 farms with aquaculture sales in the United States, up from 2,932 in 2018, with total sales of $1,908,022 thousand. USDA NASS, 2023 Census of Aquaculture
- 391,851 Farms reported 391,851 freshwater acres used for aquaculture production in 2023, compared with 253,498 acres in 2018. USDA NASS, 2023 Census of Aquaculture
- Pricing runs 150 to 640 US dollars per month across 3 tiers. Early access is free.
What aquaculture producers and fish farms actually deal with
Why it stays broken
Aquaculture records are kept per unit because units are what you can see, but the animals move. Between the 2018 and 2023 censuses farms went from 2,932 to 3,453 and freshwater acres from 253,498 to 391,851, and the record keeping stayed on clipboards. So growth and survival get calculated after the fact rather than during.
A harvest set inside a withdrawal period can write off a whole cohort worth months of feed.
Farmed seafood requires far less feed than most terrestrial animals, and thirty years of lessons learned have been put into practice in U.S. aquaculture farm management and regulatory requirements.
How does Neurobird Aquaculture Fish Farm work?
Log the day in the field
Feed, mortality, temperature, dissolved oxygen. Entered at the pond on a phone that works without signal.
Keep the lot intact through splits
When a unit is graded or split, the new lots inherit the history. Feed conversion and survival stay meaningful.
Block the dates that must be blocked
A treatment sets a withdrawal period against the lot, and a harvest cannot be scheduled inside it by accident.
Neurobird Aquaculture Fish Farm Audit Platform
Record against the lot, not the pond. Then splits, transfers and grades carry history with them and the numbers are live rather than retrospective.
- 1Record feed, mortality and water quality per unit daily, in the field, on a phone
- 2Follow a lot through grading, splitting and transfer so history is not lost at the moment fish move
- 3Track treatments and withdrawal periods so a harvest date cannot be set inside one
- 4Produce feed conversion, growth and survival by cohort while the cycle is still running
What changes with Neurobird Aquaculture Fish Farm?
The same work, read left to right: how it runs today, and how it runs once the record is in one place.
| Today | With Neurobird Aquaculture Fish Farm |
|---|---|
| Feed, mortality and water quality are recorded on three different clipboards, and the feed conversion number is worked out at the end of the cycle when it is too late to act on | Record feed, mortality and water quality per unit daily, in the field, on a phone |
| A treatment creates a withdrawal period, and the only place that date exists is the memory of whoever mixed the feed | Follow a lot through grading, splitting and transfer so history is not lost at the moment fish move |
| The buyer wants lot traceability, and the lot history is a stack of pond sheets in a filing cabinet | Track treatments and withdrawal periods so a harvest date cannot be set inside one |
Who is this for?
Same lot problem, three different systems of production.
Catfish, bass or baitfish in earthen ponds
Many units, seasonal labour, paper sheets. You need capture that survives a wet clipboard and a new hire.
Trout and salmonids
Grading and splitting happen constantly. You need lineage so feed conversion still means something after the third split.
Indoor RAS production
You already have sensor data. What you lack is the manual observation and treatment record joined to it in one lot history.
The pond day, as a technician would record it
A working preview. Tick an entry to file it against the lot.
Tap an asset to log a scan and timestamp the inspection.
What US aquaculture actually looks like on paper
Useful if you are sizing a build or writing farm procedures. Each source links out.
The 2023 Census of Aquaculture counted 3,453 farms with aquaculture sales in the United States, up from 2,932 in 2018, with total sales of $1,908,022 thousand.
USDA NASS, 2023 Census of AquacultureFarms reported 391,851 freshwater acres used for aquaculture production in 2023, compared with 253,498 acres in 2018.
USDA NASS, 2023 Census of AquacultureFood fish accounted for 968 farms and $819,556 thousand of sales in 2023, the largest single category by value.
NOAA Fisheries, aquacultureFish and fishery products processing is governed by federal HACCP rules, so a farm that processes carries seafood safety recordkeeping as well as production records.
eCFR, 21 CFR 123EPA effluent guidelines for concentrated aquatic animal production set discharge expectations for larger facilities, which turns water and feed records into compliance records.
EPA, aquatic animal production effluent guidelinesAquaculture fish farm software questions, answered
Key terms
- What counts as an aquaculture farm?
- For the 2023 Census of Aquaculture an aquaculture farm is a place from which $1,000 or more of aquaculture products were produced and sold, or produced and distributed for restoration, conservation, enhancement or recreation, during the census year. That definition covers food fish, baitfish, sport fish, ornamentals, crustaceans and mollusks.
How big is US aquaculture?
The 2023 Census of Aquaculture counted 3,453 farms with sales in the United States and $1,908,022 thousand in aquaculture product sales, up from 2,932 farms and $1,515,680 thousand in 2018. Food fish accounted for 968 of those farms.
Why does lot traceability matter on a fish farm?
Because grading and splitting break the link between the fish and the pond sheet. Once a raceway is split into three, feed and treatment history recorded against the unit no longer describes the animals, and that is exactly the history a buyer, a vet or a withdrawal period calculation needs.
What regulations touch a fish farm's records?
Effluent is covered by EPA guidelines for concentrated aquatic animal production, drugs used in aquaculture are FDA regulated with withdrawal periods, and processing operations fall under the fish and fishery products HACCP rules in 21 CFR 123. Records are the common thread through all three.
Does this replace our feed system or water monitoring?
No. It reads them. Automated sensors and feeders keep doing their job, and the lot record joins their numbers to the manual observations that never make it into any system today.
Why we are building this
Fish farming produced $1,908,022 thousand of product in 2023 across 3,453 farms, and most of that was recorded on paper hanging beside a pond.
The core problem is not sensors. It is that records are kept against units while value is created in lots, and every grade or split quietly destroys the link.
We would rather build this with people who feed fish for a living. Tell us how your records work, and where we have got it wrong.
Where the requirement comes from
Public sources on how US aquaculture is counted and regulated.
- USDA NASS, 2023 Census of Aquaculture Farm counts, sales by species and acres in production, at national and state level.
- NOAA Fisheries, aquaculture Federal overview of marine and freshwater aquaculture, permitting and species.
- EPA, aquatic animal production effluent guidelines Effluent limitation guidelines that apply to concentrated aquatic animal production facilities.
- eCFR, 21 CFR 123 fish and fishery products The HACCP requirements that apply once product is processed, including records and verification.
How much does Neurobird Aquaculture Fish Farm cost?
Priced per site because a site is where the water is. Ponds, tanks, lots and users are unlimited on every tier.
- Daily feed and mortality log
- Water quality capture
- Lot register
- Offline field entry
- Email support
- Everything in Single site
- Grading and split lineage
- Feed conversion by cohort
- Treatment and withdrawal tracking
- Named contact
- Everything in Farm
- Sensor and feeder integration
- Harvest and buyer traceability pack
- Effluent and HACCP record export
- Onboarding included
Get free early access
If you run a farm, tell us how a lot keeps its history through a grade or a split today.
Straight answer on where this is: In development. Early access gets the working preview, a say in what ships first, and early access pricing. It does not get you a login today.
Prefer email? Write to office@neurobird.com and a person will reply. No autoresponder.