Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title Development of a new system for measuring the biomass of fish in aquaculture Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Eiolf Vikhagen Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
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Institutions involved
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Start year 2016 End year 2018 Funding (€) € 609,360 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/256297?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=2280&Departement=Helse-+og+omsorgsdepartementet&Departement=Helsedepartementet&source=FORISS&projectId=301029 Summary Biomass measurement of fish is one of the large unsolved problems for the fish farming industry. Knowing the value of your inventory is taken for granted in most industries, but this is not the case for fish farmers, since their inventory spends their life under water, inaccessible. Knowing the exact weight and size of the fish has been an area of interest since the first fish was farmed, and several solutions have been developed and used. A common factor with all current solutions is that they do not have satisfactory exact measurements, which makes their output more of a statistical exercise rather than one of actual precise measurements. Also, the number of measurements current solutions enable is troublesome, in that the results should speak for a population of nearly 200 000 fish. For the fish farmers, the issues with today´s solutions means they are losing large sums every year, mainly due to the following factors:
1. They sell their fish one week in advance of harvesting, and if they sell the wrong amount, either too much or too little, this costs them money.
2. Not knowing the weight of your fish at any given time means two things:
a. Cannot produce the maximum amount of salmon as defined by the concessions in the fish farmer´s ownership
b. Cannot feed the fish optimally
3. Having a vague inventory is negative, especially for those farmers traded publically
4. Using the wrong dosages when treating disease could lead to having to repeat treatments
According to SINTEF these factors cost the industry more than a billion NOK every year.
Optomar AS aims to solve these problems by tackling the issue in both ends: Ensure a very high precision in every measurement, as well as enabling more measurements than are made today.
Keywords
Engineering;
Open sea aquaculture;
Cage aquaculture;
Biomass;
Fish;
Marine Region
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