Fifteen years of commercial production in the Dominican Republic. Now building striped bass hatchery capacity for the waters of Suffolk County.
Where we are today →Paolas Symbiotic Aquaculture does not yet produce fish on Long Island. We think you should know that from the first page.
What we sell today is knowledge: technical consulting, engineering and training, built on fifteen years of commercial aquaculture in the Dominican Republic.
What we are building is hatchery capacity for striped bass in Suffolk County. Here is exactly where that stands.
We publish no dates we cannot keep.
Morone saxatilis × M. chrysops
Striped bass came back to this coast because people decided it would. It is the great recovery story of American fisheries, and it is the species we have chosen.
It is also one of the hardest. Hybrid striped bass (Morone saxatilis × M. chrysops) does not reproduce on its own: it requires broodstock of both species and induced spawning. The larvae hatch at around two millimeters, with a narrow first-feeding window on rotifers and Artemia, and strong cannibalism that demands constant grading.
That difficulty is the reason this work matters. Most of the primary literature on culturing this species in cold northern waters dates from the 1970s and has never been rewritten for the people who actually run the ponds. That is the gap we are trying to close.
Long Island water does not hold these temperatures year-round. That gap is the engineering problem, and it is the reason a hatchery here has to be a controlled recirculating system rather than a pond. Closing that gap is the work.
Culture parameters compiled from the primary literature and from our own pond experience with warm-water species. They are the working targets of the manual under development, not results from a Long Island facility.
In 1976, Great South Bay produced 700,000 bushels of hard clams — roughly 93% of New York State's entire harvest. By 1980 it was 340,000. In 2012, the whole bay produced 3,368 bushels.
In the Peconics, brown tide nearly erased the bay scallop. Cornell Cooperative Extension, Long Island University and Suffolk County planted more than eight million hatchery scallops to bring it back. It worked, until the mass die-offs began in 2019.
The menhaden factories at Promised Land closed in the sixties because there were no fish left to process.
Every one of these species is a filter or a regenerator. These bays did not only lose a harvest — they lost the machinery that kept them clean.
Hatcheries are how that machinery gets rebuilt. That is the work we want to do here.
Six species we have farmed commercially, in symbiotic and recirculating systems.
Every photograph in this section was taken at our operations in the Dominican Republic. None of them shows a Long Island site.
Our long-term interest is integrated multitrophic aquaculture: finfish, shellfish and seaweed in one system, where the waste of one species is the input of another. Eastern oyster, bay scallop, hard clam and sugar kelp all belong in that picture for Suffolk County.
We are not producing any of them today. We say so because it is true.
PAOLAS SYMBIOTIC AQUACULTURE, LLC is led by César Ramdy Guerrero, Civil Engineer, with forty years of construction and industrial plant management in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and fifteen years in symbiotic multitrophic aquaculture.
Vice President, Asociación Dominicana de Acuacultores (ADOA), 2020–2025.
Delivered the opening welcome address at CONADOA 2022, the first National Aquaculture Congress of the Dominican Republic, held with CEDAF — a program that included Prof. Yoram Avnimelech, Dr. Alejandro Flores (FAO) and Dr. Megan Davis (Florida Atlantic University / Harbor Branch).
Diploma in Aquaculture 4.0, 336 hours, Universidad Técnica de Machala (UTMACH), Ecuador, 2024.
Technical advisor, TILMAX — 3,500 m² grow-out ponds, harvest peaks of 8,000–10,000 lb in a single day.
Chief Resident Engineer, Cathedral of La Vega Real, 1988–1990.
Official congress program, for verification: CONADOA 2022 — CEDAF
Online, with practical sessions on working farms in the Dominican Republic
InstructorMonthly program for students across Latin America and the United States.
CEDAF, Santo Domingo
SpeakerDelivered the congress welcome address as Vice-President of the Asociación Dominicana de Acuacultores (ADOA).
Piscicultura Eco Sostenible Chireno, Dominican Republic
Organizer · Practical instructorOrganized the course and took part in the hands-on field sessions. The lectures were given by Dr. David Celdrán Sabater and his BAF team, Ing. Edwin Reyes, Dr. Francisco de la Rosa, among others.
This is what you can hire or buy from us today: technical consulting, engineering, training and digital manuals. Everything here is delivered remotely.
One-on-one advisory on water quality, aeration, biosecurity, stocking densities and production management. Video call with written follow-up.
Two hours analysing your operation or project, plus a written technical report with findings, risks and a prioritized action plan.
A full day dedicated to your operation: comprehensive review, protocol adjustments and direct training for your technical team.
Eight monthly hours of technical availability: parameter monitoring, incident resolution and ongoing management adjustments.
Four hours of training designed for your team or producer group, with technical material and calculation spreadsheets included.
Morone saxatilis culture manual: biology, facilities, water quality, feeding, health management and harvest. PDF. Under active development; buyers receive revisions at no cost.
The complete technical manual plus one hour of personalized advisory to apply it to your specific project.
RAS, symbiotic and aquaponic system design tailored to your site, species, climate and budget. Scope defines price.
Three working spreadsheets: circular pond volume and stocking density with aeration-support check, biometric sampling with biomass projection, and a water-quality reference table for tilapia in biofloc systems.
Free. English and Spanish. We email you the file plus occasional field-tested updates — no spam, unsubscribe anytime. Questions: [email protected]
No payment data is ever entered on this website. Services and manuals are invoiced and paid through an external payment link; the digital course is paid on Hotmart. This site has no card fields of any kind.
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PAOLAS SYMBIOTIC AQUACULTURE, LLC
New York State Domestic LLC — formed May 26, 2026
Mailing address:
83 S Ocean Ave, Unit #576
Patchogue, NY 11772, United States
This is a mailing address only. PSA operates no production facility, farm or hatchery at this or any other Long Island location.
Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM (Eastern Time).
Consulting, engineering and training, delivered remotely worldwide. Striped bass hatchery development is in progress in Suffolk County, New York.
Registered agent: 418 Broadway, STE N, Albany, NY 12207, USA
