Using robots in aquaculture industry ROVs can help industry grow To say that Tracy Granter is excited about the developing use of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) in Newfoundland’s aquaculture industry would be an understatement. Granter is a senior aquaculture technologist with the Marine Institute’s (MI) Centre for Aquaculture and Seafood Development who became aware of the potential benefits of ROVs in the industry when asked to do some work on a mussel grow-out operation. “We were asked by the operator to use cameras to inspect mussel stocks and to check for predators. I asked the MI’s lead ROV instructor, Richard Vandervoort, to help with the project by using a ROV in the work. “The ROV worked amazingly well in the cold, icy conditions and it was then I realized the advantages of using ROVs in the aquaculture industry.” Granter said while the ROVs can be used for many purposes, such as documenting and looking for the presence or absence of fouling organisms, the technology has two key advantages: ROVs can be used for site selection and monitoring once cages are supplied with fish. Gathering information about a site before an aquaculture species in introduced is critical to the project. In addition to taking water samples to measure dissolved oxygen and temperature, ROVs can capture still and video images to identify mooring system requirements, anchorage types and ice scour. ROVs can also collect sea bottom samples to look at current strength and wave action. They can document existing habitat and look for predators and invasive species. thetelegram/News/Local/2014-11-17/article-3942197/Using-robots-in-aquaculture-industry/1
Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 02:54:28 +0000
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