# US 9,516,865 B2 · Method and system for enhancing growth and survivability of aquatic organisms > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,516,865 B2 - Document ID: US9516865B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/064,620 - Filed: 2016-03-09 - Published: 2016-06-30 - Granted: 2016-12-13 - Earliest claimed: 2011-12-21 - Assignees: Juliette Delabbio - Applicants: Juliette Delabbio - Inventors: Juliette Delabbio - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9516865B2 ## CPC - A01K 63/06: Arrangements for heating or lighting in, or attached to, receptacles for live fish - A01K 61/00: Culture of aquatic animals (receptacles for live fish, e.g. aquaria, A01K63/00) - A01K 61/59: of crustaceans, e.g. lobsters or shrimps - Y02A 40/81: Aquaculture, e.g. of fish - A01K: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS - Y02A: TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ## Abstract A method for enhancing the production of aquatic organisms under cultivation, including the steps of exposing the aquatic organisms to a submerged illumination source inside water of a rearing unit; and maintaining illumination in the rearing unit for a rearing period. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for enhancing the production of aquatic organisms under cultivation, including the steps of: exposing the aquatic organisms under cultivation to light from illumination means within water of an aquatic rearing means, the illumination means forming a light pattern spread out inside the water of the aquatic rearing means; and maintaining the light from the illumination means in the aquatic rearing means for a rearing period to increase growth of the aquatic organisms in the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the illumination means includes a light guide that guides light from an illumination source located outside the water of the aquatic rearing means into the water of the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the aquatic organism include crayfish. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a light emitting surface that introduces the light into the aquatic rearing means of the illumination means is located between a bottom of the aquatic rearing means and 1 mm below an upper surface of the water of the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein a light emitting surface that introduces the light into the aquatic rearing means of the illumination means is located 10 cm above a bottom of the aquatic rearing means and 1 cm below an upper surface of the water of the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the aquatic organisms include crayfish, and a spectral light range of the light from the illumination means covers at least a range of 300 nm to 640 nm. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of: harvesting the aquatic organisms from the aquatic rearing means that have grown to a marketable size. ### Claim 8 A method for affecting the growth of aquatic organisms comprising the steps of: exposing the aquatic organisms under cultivation to light from illumination means within water of an aquatic rearing means, the illumination means forming a light pattern spread out inside the water of the aquatic rearing means; and maintaining illumination in the aquatic rearing means by the illumination means for at least a part of a rearing period to increase growth of the aquatic organisms in the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the illumination means includes a light guide that guides light from an illumination source located outside the water of the aquatic rearing means into the water of the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the aquatic organism include crayfish. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein a light emitting surface of the illumination means is located between a bottom of the aquatic rearing means and 2 cm beneath an upper surface of the water of the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 12 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, wherein the aquatic organisms include crayfish, and a spectral light range of the light from the illumination means covers at least a range of 300 nm to 640 nm. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of: harvesting the aquatic organisms that have grown in the aquatic rearing means to a marketable size. ### Claim 14 A system for enhancing the production of aquatic organisms under cultivation, the system comprising: an aquatic rearing means for holding water and the aquatic organisms under cultivation; an illumination means for providing light within the water of the aquatic rearing means, the illumination means having a light emission surface introducing the light into the water arranged below an upper surface of the water of the aquatic rearing means, the illumination means forming a light pattern spread out in the aquatic rearing means; and a control device for operating the illumination means to maintain the light inside the aquatic rearing means for a rearing period to increase growth of the aquatic organisms inside the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The system according to claim 14, further comprising: a power supply device connected to the illumination means, wherein the control device further controls the power supply device to operate the illumination means. ### Claim 16 (depends on 14) The system according to claim 14, wherein the illumination means includes a light guide that guides light from an illumination source located outside the water of the aquatic rearing means into the water of the aquatic rearing means. ### Claim 17 (depends on 14) The system according to claim 14, wherein the aquatic organisms include crayfish, and a spectral light range of the light from the illumination means covers at least a range of 300 nm to 640 nm.