Objective
Fouling in aquaculture is the growth of marine flora and fauna on submerged installations, including the netting. Comprehensive fouling results in clogging of the net, which impedes the passage of water through the fish cage. The reduction in exchange of water can result in depleted oxygen levels and elevated ammonia levels, affecting growth and animal health negatively. In severe cases, increased levels of fish mortality can be prominent, certainly unwanted features for the fish farmer.
Also, fouling affects current-induced drag forces on submerged equipment, representing a potential hazard to the fish cage installation overall. Currently, dealing with fouling problems includes expensive operations, as state-of-art technology is neither sufficiently developed nor cost-effective. Hence, there is an urgent need for cost-effective net cleaning equipment suitable for the various cage systems commercially in use in the fish farming sector.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheries
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringcontrol systems
- social sciencessociologydemographymortality
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorsoptical sensors
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
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Call for proposal
FP6-2004-SME-COOP
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Funding Scheme
Cooperative - SMEs-Co-operative research contractsCoordinator
HEROY
Norway