55 meters in diameter, more than 17 meters high and about 600 tons in weight – that’s the calling card of the “Marine Donut”, which is about to be put into service in Northern Norway. Up to 200,000 salmon will enter the floating fish farming system.
An artificial flow channel simulates a river, parasites are kept away, uneaten food and faeces are collected within the system – Norway’s salmon farm, which floats on the water like a “marine doughnut”, can do it all.
Plastics technology specialist AGRU from Bad Hall alone supplied 400 tons of panels and almost 200 tons of pipes for Bluegreen’s revolutionary project. “We are proud to have been able to make an important contribution to the realization of this revolutionary aquaculture technology,” reveals AGRU technician Albert Lueghamer.
The construction is equipped with ballast tanks that make it possible to raise and lower the donut, but also to tilt it. The harvest-ready fish can simply be fed into a connected hose and then transported to a vessel for further processing without injury.
Source: Krone
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