Acronym FISHSCAN
Category
Aquaculture
Title Development of novel system for continuous remote monitoring of weight, growth, and size distribution of fish in aquaculture enclosures Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Research for SMEs
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
SME – Research for the benefit of SMEs
Specific Programme (FP7)
Capacities
Funding source European Coordinator Gunnar Kindsbækken Coordinator email gunnar.kindsbaekken@storvik.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
ABT Group - AquaBioTech Group Ltd (Malta) ,
NA - Fibula AS (Norway) ,
NA - Lerøy Midnor AS (Norway) ,
STI - National Institute of Technology (Norway) ,
NA - Poro AB (Sweden) ,
NA - Swansea University (United Kingdom) ,
TUM - Technical University of Munich (Germany) ,
Start year 2011 End year 2013 Funding (€) € 1,281,528 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/262323 Summary Today there is ±5% error in estimation of biomass in fish farming. This represents an estimated loss of E91million for the European fish farming industry. Around 80% of all sales of farmed fish are arranged pre-harvest. To ensure profit on the sale, farmers and processors are dependent on correct estimations of weight, size distribution and total biomass. Furthermore, fish feed constitutes 50% of the production costs in fish farming. Costs associated with of excess feeding is high. European fish farmers have been facing increasing competition from low cost countries in recent years, especially the sea bass & bream sector in southern Europe. The FishScan project will develop a novel system for continuous remote monitoring of weight, growth and size distribution of fish for use within aquaculture enclosures. The project aims to achieve an estimation accuracy of 99% in size measurements for fish > 1kg, and 97% for fish at 100g. The FishScan system has the potential to reduce the current ±5% error in biomass estimates to ±3%. This represents an increased profit of E40,445 p.a. per farm license and corresponds to E41 million p.a. in increased profits for the European aquaculture industry. To achieve this, the FishScan project will: (1) Increase knowledge of fish behaviour in net cages to enable representative sampling; (2) Transferring Time-of-Flight (ToF) technology and software to an aquaculture setting; (3) Design robust camera module & optimise LED power & positioning; (4) Design translation system for movement of camera module in fish cage; (5) Develop software for use underwater on fish; (6) Develop LED driver to increase frequency from 20MHZ up to 40MHz to increase depth resolution of ToF data; (7) Design control system for camera module movement, light settings and camera and image processing software; (8) Integrate and validate the FishScan system to obtain a working prototype. The SMEs in the FishScan project expects a net present value (NPV) (10yrs, 7%) of E1.3 million from the project.
Keywords
Monitoring;
Engineering;
Fish;
Open sea aquaculture;
Aquaculture industry;
Cage aquaculture;
Prototype;
Marine Region
76
Not associated to marine areas
0
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