Fjordlaks Aqua completing these days a collaboration with SeaSide, Optimar Stette and Farstad Shipping. The project uses new technology to revolutionize delousing of farmed fish.
PRESS RELEASE 04/05/2016 1:41 p.m.
Optimar Stetter subsidiary SeaSide has developed technology that will provide an effective, environmentally sensitive delousing salmon. The method is free of chemicals and has no other emissions since lice captured and destroyed, according to a press release.
Healthy Solution
Farstad Shipping achieved to get the technology out to the cages in Storfjorden where delousing has been proven. The project shows the resources that exist in the local cluster.
– We are very pleased with the result of the collaborative project. In Fjordlaks Aqua, we have always been concerned about fish welfare. Good fish welfare contributes to good growth and good quality of the final product. The method to Optimar Stette represents a significant improvement compared with alternative solutions. The fish also retains the lining and take nourishment shortly after delousing unlike treatment using chemicals, says Amund Pedersen Fjordlaks Aqua message.
No chemicals
sea lice removed using warm water where the fish fed controlled through a specially designed vessel.
– To remove lice using tempered water is nothing new. A major advantage of the use of tempered water is that treatment takes place without any addition of chemicals. It further is unique about our approach is the way we control the treatment temperature and the fish remain on. Debugging takes place in a continuous process with high capacity and without emissions. Produced water is namely filtered and louse destroyed, says Frode Kjølås in SeaSide.
This method has proven very high degree of delousing and very gentle handling of the fish according to the press release.
New opportunities
the system is placed on board Farstad “Father Server”, which added next to the cages and treat the fish through the plant on the deck. During the test period, they have been able to remove lice for approximately 100 tons of fish per hour. The ship can quickly and securely move between cages.
– For us in Farstad we appreciate to have the opportunity to participate in this project. It is important to be able to see new opportunities as the market is today. This project is very interesting for us and clearly the result of cooperation in the maritime sector in western Norway, says Karl-Johan Bakken, CEO of Farstad Shipping.
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