Marine Donut is a cost-efficient closed fish farm structure providing supreme fish quality with minimal environmental footprints. It enables completely new and profitable production strategies.
Marine Donut is a cost-efficient closed fish farm structure providing supreme fish quality with minimal environmental footprints. It enables completely new and profitable production strategies.
Marine Donut is a donut-shaped closed fish farm. It prevents escape and contamination, and minimizes the risk of disease, algae and sea lice. The need for antibiotics and other medicines and preparations is significantly reduced. As a breeder, you get full control over the fish and the environment through digitization and monitoring. You also have good control over the efficient feed factor, which further reduces costs.
Marine Donut is a flow system that exercises the fish, where the flow can be adjusted according to the breeder's desire. This recreates the environment that the salmon experiences in the rivers. The dimensions and geometry are designed the way the salmon likes best and with the right pressure in terms of depth. The design provides good fish density throughout the facility - not just the upper part.
Marine Donut is the result of engineering at its best. A pilot plant has been tested in the pool at SINTEF and it is now ready for commercialization. Mowi ASA has been granted two development licenses by the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries exclusively for the Marine Donut concept. The facility is tailored to fit and utilize the expected licensing and production regime of the future, and can be used for the production of both post-smolt and market fish.
In the letter of commitment, the Directorate of Fisheries writes: - As a result of the concept being able to contribute to solving several of the environmental and area challenges facing the industry, the Directorate of Fisheries considers that the project involves new and significantly improved production technology.
Marine Donut consists of a closed breeding unit shaped like a donut (torus). The main structure is made of High Density Polyethylene (HDPE) and acts like a tight barrier against the external environment to prevent lice infestation and infection into the plant. Marine Donut has floating pipes at the top and bracing pipes at the bottom in addition to vertical ballast tanks on the sides. This allows the system to be raised and submerged. On top of the facility, there will be a working platform. The plant has a solution for collecting sludge as well as inlets below the sea lice belt. Marine Donut is designed to withstand high exposure to both waves and currents. It is just as suitable for breeding yellowtail kingfish in the tropics as salmon and trout in colder waters.
Marine Donut is in a commercialization phase and if you want more information, you are welcome to contact us.
We expect Marine Donut to become a very attractive technology, especiallywhen the new Norwegian aquaculture strategy is launched in the summer of 2021. Marine Donut also enables production within the traffic light system in a better, more profitable way. Our goal is to show that technology is cost-effective today, by choosing the right production strategy.
1 MD can hold 1.100 MTB (metric tons of biomass).
A Marine Donut is used for post-smolt for 1,000,000 fish up to 1.1 kg. These are then transferred to five Marine Donuts with 200,000 fish each. There, the fish grows up to 5.5 kg.
A Marine Donut is used for post-smolt for 1,000,000 fish up to 1.1 kg. These are then transferred to five cages with 200,000 fish in each. There, the fish grows up to 5.5 kg.
In areas with a large lice infestation, Marine Donut can work well for the last phase, where the fish grows from about 2.5 kg to 5.5 kg.
Marine Donuts can also be used throughout the production phase from smolt to ready-to-slaughter fish.
Marine Donut is a good alternative for producing post-smolt for off-shore fish farms.
The flexibility of Marine Donut means that it will also work well as a pre-slaughter cage.
