Open AccessThermal Aquaculture Design 1
Author(s) -
Yee William C.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
proceedings of the annual workshop ‐ world mariculture society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.655
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1749-7345
pISSN - 1043-5166
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-7345.1971.tb00032.x
Subject(s) - shrimp , aquaculture , inlet , constant (computer programming) , environmental science , fish <actinopterygii> , channel (broadcasting) , fishery , hydrology (agriculture) , biology , geology , oceanography , geotechnical engineering , engineering , computer science , programming language , electrical engineering
This paper presents a conceptual design for intensive aquaculture in flowing warm water. Shrimp biology and technology were used as the model, but the concept is applicable to any culturable aquatic species. A culture channel was divided into pens, each successively larger in bottom surface area than the last. Each pen area was proportional to the area of a segment of a typical S‐shaped shrimp growth curve. Heated water was blended with ambient water to maintain a constant water inlet temperature of 27 C. The stream of uniform depth flowed through the channel at a constant rate. Shrimp in culture were allowed to remain in one pen until they attained a density, g per m 2 , which was constant for all pens. They were moved successively to larger and larger pens until they reached a specified marketable size. Once the system reaches steady‐state, it should be possible to harvest continually, say week after week, the year‐round.