Early Aquaculture Facility at the IMA included:

• A Wet Laboratory of approximately 500 square metres with thirty-two (32) 900 litre circular tanks and nine 0.02 ha outdoor earthen ponds
• Water supplied by a flow-through well-water system from a well drilled on-site specifically for the project.
• The well has the capacity to supply 120 gallons per minute of good quality water for the ponds and wet-laboratory.  It also supplements the IMA’s water supply.

Aquaculture Wet Laboratory at the IMA constructed in 1984/1985

Present-day Facility includes:

• Aquaculture Laboratory
• An Intensive Recirculating Aquaculture system comprising:
  • A shade-house
  • Ten 36,000 litre tanks
  • A feed storage area and control room

• Benthic Laboratory
• Fish Age and Growth Laboratory
• Fisheries Laboratory
• Histopathology Laboratory
• Marine Productivity Laboratory
• Marine Reference Collection Museum

Intense recirculating aquaculture system