AEG Centralized Water Borne Feeder

AEG Feeders represent the culmination of advanced engineering and practical fish farming experience to provide the marine aquaculture sector with a reliable feeding system capable of survival and cost-effective operation in low-, medium-, and high-energy environments. All AEG Centralized Water Borne Feeders provide numerous economic and management benefits to fish farm operators including:

• Reduced Structural Maintenance - Marine grade aluminum fabrication reduces structural maintenance costs compared with other possible fabrication materials including steel and concrete (i.e., no requirement for marine paint or antifoulant).
• Water Borne - In water delivery and spread of pelletized feed decreases feed loss common in air-borne delivery, allows delivery anywhere in the water column for increased species flexibility, and locates feed pipes at depth to protect them from surface wave activity. Additional diffusers might be deployed in each cage for greater spread of delivered feed.
• Optimized Feed Management - Delivery method eliminates feed loss due to pellet breakage associated with traditional surface-based feed delivery systems thereby providing more eco-friendly operations, better food conversion ratios, and associated cost savings.
• Sophisticated - Integration of a sophisticated computer application that allows versatile user-defined feed management, including feeding of up to 28 feed pipes (i.e., cages) simultaneously that occurs over a user-defined period of time or extended to feed continuously throughout the day. Feed provision ranges between 20 g/min to 300 kg/min.
• Distance Control - Distance communication and control capability via cellular, satellite, or telemetry. When deployed with distance communication the feeder can be programmed to send daily emails to summarize cage-specific feed allotments and immediate emails to alert site operators of onboard system alarms for rapid response.
• Social Acceptance - Site noise pollution is dramatically reduced by delivering feed in water thereby eliminating noise associated with air delivery methods, distributing feed pellets in the water column thereby eliminating fish "boiling" noise at the surface, and incorporating residential/hospital grade noise control systems.