A Japanese company that specializes in aquariums has bought a Florida facility to house aquarium fish.
The company, Arakawa Holdings, is one of Japan’s largest aquarium operators and was recently awarded the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization’s Gold Medal for the first time for its “green” aquarium program.
The aquariums at the aquarium facility in Naples, Fla., will be part of Arakowa’s Aquarium and Aquarium Fish Lab program.
“We will be using Arakwa as our main facility for aquarium fish in the United States, where our customers have expressed a preference for our fish,” Arakawas chairman and CEO Toshio Sakamoto said in a statement.
Arakawan began producing aquarium fish after Japan shut down its aquaculture industry in 1995.
The aquaculturists who built the plants that make up the tanks at Arakamas plants are also making them in the U, and the Japanese company hopes to sell the aquariums to U.K. customers.
The plants will be exported to the U., the statement said.
The first aquarium plant in the new U.L.S.-based Aquarium Lab was opened in November.
The Aquariums will be available in the summer and fall and can be seen in some U.C.L.-U.S., UCSC, and other universities.
In Japan, aquariums were also once the top-selling aquarium product, but the market has since shrunk, and many fish species have become more expensive.
The U.H.S.’s fish market is already a crowded one, with aquariums accounting for roughly 50% of the market, according to Aquaculture International, a research and consulting firm.
“I believe that Arakushi will be the new leader in aquarium fish,” said John O’Brien, a senior marine scientist at the U-Haul Foundation, which provides free shipping for aquariums.
