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Neptune Industries, Inc.'s Algae Production System Featured in Bio Diesel Magazine

Neptune Industries, Inc. (OTCBB: NPDI), a
next generation aquaculture technology company, headquartered in Boca
Raton, said today its "Fish Farm to Fuel" technology is featured as the
cover story in the recently released August 2008 edition of Bio Diesel
Magazine. An online version of the article can be viewed at
http://biodieselmagazine.com/article.jsp?article_id=2557.
Neptune is pioneering a new technology for commercializing the production
of algae that uses the waste that is generated from fish farming as
fertilizer.
The company received a Farm-to-Fuel grant from the State of Florida in
January 2008, and has since developed two pilot scale floating production
systems that are expandable, and suitable for any water-based environment.
The company is currently working with a number of different algae species
which could lead to production of more than 14,000 gals of bio diesel fuel
per acre. Incorporating algae production into a fish farming system saves
production costs of the algae, while allowing the independent operation of
each system.
Mr. Sal Cherch, Neptune's Chief Operating Officer, said, "We believe that
producing 'bio diesel' fuels from fish waste could make a meaningful
contribution to solving the energy crisis, and we are delighted to see the
company's work featured in a major industry journal. By using Neptune's
patent pending Aqua-Sphere® technology as a platform, the production of
algae, which is then refined into bio fuels, becomes an economically viable
method of producing millions of gallons of fuel."
Bio Diesel Magazine stated, "Neptune Industries Inc. and its subsidiaries
have come up with a way to solve a long-standing problem in aquaculture --
how to keep the fish excreta and uneaten food from becoming a pollution
problem," says company Chief Executive Officer Ernest Papadoyianis. "The
company's technology, called the Aqua-Sphere®, keeps this waste out of
the environment and collects it so it can be used for other purposes. One
of those purposes is algae production for bio diesel feedstock. Neptune
Industry's algae system is uncomplicated and takes advantage of the
Aqua-Sphere's® environment."
About Neptune Industries
Neptune Industries is a technology company which from inception has been
committed to achieving sustainable, eco-friendly aquaculture by innovating
and pioneering a "total and comprehensive integrated systems solution"
approach to the mission critical challenges facing the Aquaculture Industry
today. Dwindling supplies of wild caught stocks used for fishmeal, and the
continued environmental damage, escapism, and disease caused by
self-polluting net pen systems, have severely restricted Industry growth on
a global basis.
Our mission is to utilize our expanding production operations base of
all-natural, sustainable farm raised seafood products, as the working
platform for the development of innovative, next-generation technologies to
dissolve current industry bottlenecks. Further, our commitment is one of
systems integration that targets "zero waste." Fish, organic produce, and
waste-to-energy systems synergize to form a production model with
multi-revenue streams.
Thus far, the Company has applied for patents and has made significant
progress in the development of three technology platforms, one of which its
calls "Ento-Protein"; the second of which it calls "Aqua-Sphere," and the
third of which is known it calls its "Aquaponics." Taken together as
components of a whole, this total integrated system solution approach
addresses what the company believes to be THE three critical problems
stymieing the growth of the Aquaculture industry which will invariably
cause it to fall increasingly short of growing worldwide demand.
Aqua-Sphere(TM) is a state-of-the-art scalable, modular, floating closed
containment system that is capable of concentrating and removing solid
waste, eliminating predation and escapement, utilizing alternative energy
for remote applications, and isolating crop from the environment.
Ento-Protein(TM) is a truly revolutionary development pioneered by Neptune
to be a high quality, sustainable protein derived from insects which is
intended to be a replacement for the rapidly depleting fishmeal made from
wild caught feedstock species and is currently a $7 billion market.
Aquaponics is the existing practice of integrating fish and plant
production through soil-less culture (hydroponics) using the waste effluent
as fertilizer. Neptune has advanced the methodology through the use of the
Aqua-Sphere(TM). The hydroponic system provides a revenue stream off of the
waste component of the fish production through very high quality organic
herbs and vegetables. In addition, as another part of the water treatment
and Aquaponics system a derivative product of algae is grown in floating
socks, which is the 30x more productive than corn on a per acre basis, for
the production of bio diesel.
Finally to validate and test Neptune's solutions and technologies, the
Company operates a sustainable fish farming facility in Florida City,
Florida called Blue Heron Aquaculture, Inc. Blue Heron currently is one of
the leading producers of hybrid striped bass, which it markets nationally
and internationally as Everglades Striped Bass(TM). For further
information, please visit the Company's website at:
www.neptuneindustries.net
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