The site
The shrimp farm is located close to Grevesmühlen, a small city in the countryside of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in northern Germany, about 15km from the shore of the Baltic Sea. The site was chosen since administrative and financial support was beneficial for a shrimp farm with pilot character. The farm was built close to a sewage plant in order to be able to make use of surplus heat from a biogas power plant for reasonable costs to heat water and air inside the farm building.
The state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lies wholly within the North European Plain and has a moderate climate primarily influenced by the Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea. The following tables depict mean temperature and precipitation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Months | Temperature | Precipitation in mm |
January | 0.1 | 44 |
February | 0.2 | 30 |
March | 2.6 | 37 |
April | 6.2 | 41 |
May | 10.9 | 47 |
June | 15.0 | 56 |
July | 16.7 | 72 |
August | 16.7 | 66 |
September | 13.9 | 53 |
October | 9.7 | 44 |
November | 5.2 | 52 |
December | 2.1 | 50 |
Year | 8.3 | 592 |
Grevesmühlen is located 33 km east of Lübeck, and 29 km northwest of Schwerin.
A small train station provides train services to Lübeck and other cities.
The city is in short distance connected to the freeway A 20 and the state road 105 and is part of the Hamburg Metropolitan Region.
At present, feasability studies are conducted to introduce shrimp
and fish production, based on RAS-technique in the Hamburg
Metropolitan Region which may raise synergistic effects among the
various facilities (e.g. joining with marketing concepts).