Animal husbandry – Aquatic animal culturing – Mollusk culturing
Patent
1998-01-26
2000-04-04
Carone, Michael J.
Animal husbandry
Aquatic animal culturing
Mollusk culturing
119239, 119223, A01K 6100
Patent
active
060447982
ABSTRACT:
A modular apparatus for cultivating marine animals caged within rearing units submerged in a body of water of the natural environment of the animals includes a row and column structure that floats at the water surface. The apparatus is moored by anchors deployed at the column ends and at position intermediate the column ends. The members of the rows, and optionally the columns, are constructed from substantially rigid tubes, especially plastic, corrugated wall, culvert pipe, filled with a substantially incompressible foam. The row members are releasably attached between adjacent columns in perpendicular orientation to the longitudinal axes of the columns.
Each rearing unit is a perforated wall container suspended from a row member by a suspension assembly so as to hang above the water floor. Multiple rearing units can be suspended from each row member. The rearing units contain vertically oriented panels of substrate material, especially sheets of cementitious backer unit.
Whole modules including a row member, the suspension assemblies and rearing units suspended thereby from the row member can be deployed and removed from the apparatus as a unit to facilitate the simultaneous cultivation of large numbers of marine animals in segregated compartments. The modular apparatus is particularly useful for growing juvenile abalone in captivity.
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Foster James P.
Locke Jon
Bergin James S.
Carone Michael J.
Lew Jeffrey C.
Princeton Abalone Inc.
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