Investment and Production Costs for the Hybrid Striped Bass X White Bass in North Carolina

摘要

The report examines the projected costs and returns of raising hybrid striped bass in eastern North Carolina. The costs and returns are still projected because, as of August 1988, there had not been a commercial harvest in the state. The first commercial crop probably will be harvested this fall. The budgets presented in the report are for new enterprises, and they assume that all of the inputs to the farm will be purchased new at the start of operation. Thus, the budgets presented in these sections are full-cost budgets. The budgets assume that all financing for capital construction and operating costs will be from the owner's equity. Therefore, no loan repayment schedules are included. The farming operation as it is developed in the report uses two sizes of levee-type ponds to raise fingerlings to marketable size. The timing of the production cycle starts in June with the arrival of the purchased fingerlings.