Economic assessment of investment in automatic feeding systems for sea bass grow-out farms of different sizes

The aim of this work was to run an economic assessment of investment in automatic feeding systems for grow-out farms of different sizes producing European sea bass in the Mediterranean Sea. For this, an economic model was used to simulate the annual income statement of a typical farm with different production volumes. With the values obtained in the simulation, partial budget and investment analyses were carried out to estimate the economic value of this investment decision. The findings showed that the implementation of automatic feeding systems in sea bass grow-out farms would be a good economic decision, regardless of the farm size, since there are technological options suitable for different farm sizes and capital investment capacities.