Plankton mitigation system
AssigneeFuture Sea Technologies Inc.
InventorsTheodore Baxter White, Christopher Todd Macey
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Abstract
A method of mitigating plankton from fish pens moves denser cleaning water from a selected depth into the pen and discharges it to flow horizontally across the pen, but with a downward component and at a sufficient velocity so that the cleaning water sweeps (carries) the plankton from the pen.
Claims24
A method of removing plankton from a fish pen comprising pumping a cleaning water from a depth to provide a source of cleaning water having a density higher than the water density of water in said pen, said pumping delivering a flow of said higher density cleaning water through a pipe to a location within said pen, directing said flow from said pipe to form a surface plume of and to distribute said higher density water latterly across at least a major portion of the area of said pen while permitting at least a portion of said higher density water to sink toward a bottom of said pen and carry plankton with it and dispensing said plankton carried to said bottom by said cleaning water from said pen.
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