# 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.

- URL: https://neurobird.com/aquafarm/
- Product: Neurobird Aquaculture Fish Farm Audit Platform
- Niche: aquaculture fish farm
- Buyer: aquaculture producers and fish farms
- Status: in development, open for early access
- Updated: 2026-08-21

## What Neurobird Aquaculture Fish Farm does

- 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
- Produce feed conversion, growth and survival by cohort while the cycle is still running

## How it works

1. **Log the day in the field** Feed, mortality, temperature, dissolved oxygen. Entered at the pond on a phone that works without signal.
2. **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.
3. **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.

## From the source material

> 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.

Source: NOAA Fisheries, aquaculture, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/aquaculture

## Industry context

- **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. (source: USDA NASS, 2023 Census of Aquaculture, https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Online_Resources/Aquaculture/)
- **391,851** Farms reported 391,851 freshwater acres used for aquaculture production in 2023, compared with 253,498 acres in 2018. (source: USDA NASS, 2023 Census of Aquaculture, https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Online_Resources/Aquaculture/)
- **968 farms** Food fish accounted for 968 farms and $819,556 thousand of sales in 2023, the largest single category by value. (source: NOAA Fisheries, aquaculture, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/aquaculture)
- **21 CFR 123** Fish and fishery products processing is governed by federal HACCP rules, so a farm that processes carries seafood safety recordkeeping as well as production records. (source: eCFR, 21 CFR 123, https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-123)
- **CAAP** EPA effluent guidelines for concentrated aquatic animal production set discharge expectations for larger facilities, which turns water and feed records into compliance records. (source: EPA, aquatic animal production effluent guidelines, https://www.epa.gov/eg/concentrated-aquatic-animal-production-effluent-guidelines)

## Pricing

- Single site: $150 per site, per month
- Farm: $340 per site, per month
- Multi site: $640 per site, per month

## Questions

### 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.

## Sources

- [USDA NASS, 2023 Census of Aquaculture](https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Online_Resources/Aquaculture/)
- [NOAA Fisheries, aquaculture](https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/aquaculture)
- [EPA, aquatic animal production effluent guidelines](https://www.epa.gov/eg/concentrated-aquatic-animal-production-effluent-guidelines)
- [eCFR, 21 CFR 123 fish and fishery products](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B/part-123)

## Contact

- office@neurobird.com
- https://neurobird.com/