Steinsvik equipment chosen for FishGLOBE closed cages
Aquaculture equipment supplier Steinsvik has been chosen as the feeding and integration provider for FishGLOBE, a floating closed cage system developed by Norwegian entrepreneur Arne Berge.
FishGLOBE will be delivering the first cage to a customer in Norway in August. The V5 globe, certified to produce 250 tonnes of post-smolts, will be equipped with a feeding system, data acquisition- and remote operations capabilities from Steinsvik.
Bigger version planned
A bigger V6 version is planned with the intention of producing 2,300 tonnes of salmon, which is more than the maximum biomass limit of some Scottish salmon farms.
“We had some fundamental requirements for the suppliers,” said Berge in a press release.
“FishGLOBE is a closed, floating system, and we have strict requirements regarding uptime and operational security in the solutions we choose. In addition, they need to be ready for remote operations, they must be easy to integrate with other systems from other vendors, and they must provide easy and seamless access to any data produced. A globe needs to fit into any aquaculture company’s production line. Steinsvik has robust and tested solutions for all of this.”
Large number of sensors
Steinsvik’s software sales manager, Pål Herstad, said: “We have a market leading feeding system already, and all our software solutions can share and receive data through open interfaces (API). This means that a Steinsvik-system can be connected or integrated with almost anything.”
He added: “FishGLOBE will be implementing a large number of sensors in their globes, and we are able to collect, structure and present all this data to the customer in the form and shape they want.”
In August 2017 Berge told Fish Farming Expert’s Norwegian sister site, Kyst.no, that he had been working to find a suitable site for the FishGLOBE and that permission had been sought to place it in either Lysefjord or Høgsfjord, both of which are located south of Bergen.
Read more about the FishGLOBE here.
