HQ Sustainable Brings New Feed Mill Online to Produce Innovative Floating Feed

SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwire - August 17, 2009) - HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc. (NYSE Amex: HQS) ("HQS" or the "Company"), a leader in all natural integrated
aquaculture and aquatic product processing, including fish byproduct
personal healthcare products, today announced that the construction of the
Company's new feed mill has been completed and that the mill is now fully
operational.

The new mill was brought online following months of quality and efficiency
testing in order to optimize production and to ensure that the mill met or
exceeded the highest global HACCP and ISO standards as well as The European
Regulation on Feed Hygiene FAMI-QS Management believes that this is an
important step to control the quality of our fish products, vertical
integration and traceability. The feed formulation will supplement feed
without the use of fish meal or fish oil to alleviate the pressures on our
oceans. Furthermore omega 3 will be added through all-natural algae meal to
significantly increase omega 3 levels in fresh water inland farmed Tilapia.

Buhler, a technology group and global market leader in Food Processing,
Chemical Process Engineering, and Die Casting, designed and manufactured
the equipment that was chosen for the Feedmill. Buhler considers the HQS
processing plant a showcase of the latest technologies in this sector and
HQS is very proud of the Buhler contribution. Buhler can look back on 140
years of experience in raw materials processing and has continuously
refined conventional processes such as grinding, mixing, and cooking. The
latest process technology is Extrusion. It allows preservable and carefully
balanced foods and animal feeds to be produced on the basis of the latest
findings in the field of nutrition.

Improved feed conversion rates at competitive pricing allows HQS to provide
the ideal feed for our operations in Hainan significantly improving the
efficiency of the farms themselves. The extruded floating feed produced by
the mill reduces waste, and, in turn, improves the feed conversion ratios
of the farms.

Norbert Sporns, President and Chief Executive Officer of HQ Sustainable,
commented, "We are very pleased to have the new feed mill now fully
operational. We thank Buhler for making this a 'showcase' of the latest
technologies available in aquaculture Feed. This will allow us to provide
superior feeds to our cooperative farmers in Hainan, but also to tap into
the highly lucrative specialty aquaculture feeds market, servicing other
China based and international aquaculture operations growing everything
from grouper to abalone and crab. We are able to improve efficiency and
reduce costs for our clients, and we are able to better control the quality
of the final product."

Mr. Sporns concluded, "Consumers should consider the pressures placed on
our oceans in their purchases. Farming and not 'hunter gathering' is the
future. Our operations are the aquaculture of tomorrow... available today."

About HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc.

HQ Sustainable Maritime Industries, Inc., headquartered in the United
States, is an integrated aquaculture and aquatic product processing
company, with production facilities in Hainan, PRC. HQS also uses North
American based production facilities for its new line of meal products. HQS
practices cooperative sustainable aquaculture, using nutraceutically
enriched feeds and produces and markets its products. The company is
dedicated to sustainable all natural methods giving its customers the
purest products possible. The Company holds HACCP certification from the
U.S. FDA and the EU Code assignment of quality, permitting its products to
be sold in international markets. The Aquaculture Certification Council,
Inc. (ACC) certified that tilapia processing standards met Best Aquaculture
Practices, and the Chinese government gave organic certification to the
Company's tilapia production, processing, labeling, marketing and
management system. The Company owns a nutraceuticals and health products
subsidiary, which is HACCP and GMP certified, and produces and sells
products subject to stringent laboratory tests certified by the China
Ministry of Health. The Company has recently completed a 100,000 Metric
Tonne annual production extruded Feed Mill with state-of-the-art extruded
feed production equipment. This feed is highly efficient and is sold to the
market and used by HQ's cooperative farmers. In addition to headquarters in
Seattle, HQ has operational offices in Wenchang, Hainan. The Company's
website is: http://www.hqfish.com.

About Buhler

Buhler is a global specialist in the field of plant design and construction
and the related services for transforming renewable and synthetic raw
materials into high-quality functional products and valuable substances.
Buhler employs some 7,500 persons around the world.

They are leaders in the basic technologies of grinding, blending & mixing,
bulk handling, thermal treatment, and shaping for processing cereal grains
and foods, producing and upgrading engineering materials, and die casting.

Their top priority is to improve our customers' performance (productivity
and competitiveness). They collaborate closely with their customers
throughout the life cycles of their production plants by developing new
additional values for their products. The Company's web site is:
http://www.buhlergroup.com

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