The following list describes components which should be included in consideration of goals and concepts to the extent they are relevant and identified:
- System concept |
· major physical components, i.e. hatchery, laboratory, production ponds, cages |
- Owner/operator |
· privately operated |
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· publicly operated |
- Purpose |
· commercial enterprise |
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· demonstration purposes |
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· public education |
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· applied research and development |
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· training of technicians |
- Financial objectives |
· for profit/commercial |
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· self-sustaining costs of hatchery or farm |
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· foreign exchange earnings |
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· employment enhancement |
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· income distribution |
- Funding source |
· private capital |
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· public capital (government, international agencies) |
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· combination of public and private capital |
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· budgetary constraints |
- Scale of operation |
· pilot or demonstration scale |
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· commercial/large-scale for financial |
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· objectives |
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· phased for future expansion |
- Location |
· region/province |
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· state |
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· country |
- Production programme |
· species to be produced |
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· source of animals to be produced |
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· quantity of (each) species |
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· schedule of production |
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· size of animals to be stocked and harvested |
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· technology to be used |