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US 5,329,719 AGranted
Fish raceway apparatus and method
OwnerH. K. Holyoakinventor
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Abstract
A floating fish raceway apparatus (10) for raising and harvesting fish in a body of water, the fish raceway apparatus having a frame (11), a flexible mesh cage (12) depending from the frame (11) and forming an enclosure for raising the fish, and a harvesting means (14) for drawing the flexible mesh cage (12) together in order to draw the fish to one end of the fish cage (10) for easy retrieval from the cage (10).
Claims20
A fish raceway apparatus for raising and harvesting fish in a body of water, comprising:
- a flexible mesh cage adapted to enclose fish in a body of water, said flexible mesh cage having sufficient volume so that fish can be raised therein, said flexible mesh cage having a harvesting section at one end portion thereof,
- harvesting means for progressively closing said flexible mesh cage beginning at the other end portion thereof and continuing along said flexible mesh cage toward said harvesting section of said flexible mesh cage, at the other end portion thereof for herding the fish toward said harvesting section,
- whereby, upon operation of said harvesting means, the fish within the flexible mesh cage are herded toward and into the harvesting section wherein the fish can be retrieved from the flexible mesh cage.
A method for raising and harvesting fish in a body of water, comprising the steps of:
- enclosing the fish in a flexible mesh cage in the body of water,
- feeding said fish in said cage, deforming the flexible mesh cage to reduce the cross section beginning at one edge portion thereof, and continuing along the flexible mesh cage toward a harvesting section of a flexible mesh cage for thereby herding the fish into the harvesting section, and
- retrieving the fish from the harvesting section of the flexible mesh cage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.