EP2615907A1 - Fischsortiereinrichtung und -verfahren - Google Patents

Fischsortiereinrichtung und -verfahren

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EP2615907A1
EP2615907A1 EP11757849.2A EP11757849A EP2615907A1 EP 2615907 A1 EP2615907 A1 EP 2615907A1 EP 11757849 A EP11757849 A EP 11757849A EP 2615907 A1 EP2615907 A1 EP 2615907A1
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fish
weight
population
distribution
weighing
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Sven KÜNNEN
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Big Dutchman International GmbH
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    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01KANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K61/00Culture of aquatic animals
    • A01K61/90Sorting, grading, counting or marking live aquatic animals, e.g. sex determination
    • A01K61/95Sorting, grading, counting or marking live aquatic animals, e.g. sex determination specially adapted for fish
    • AHUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A22BUTCHERING; MEAT TREATMENT; PROCESSING POULTRY OR FISH
    • A22CPROCESSING MEAT, POULTRY, OR FISH
    • A22C25/00Processing fish ; Curing of fish; Stunning of fish by electric current; Investigating fish by optical means
    • A22C25/04Sorting fish; Separating ice from fish packed in ice
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07CPOSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C5/00Sorting according to a characteristic or feature of the articles or material being sorted, e.g. by control effected by devices which detect or measure such characteristic or feature; Sorting by manually actuated devices, e.g. switches
    • B07C5/16Sorting according to weight
    • B07C5/18Sorting according to weight using a single stationary weighing mechanism
    • GPHYSICS
    • G01MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01GWEIGHING
    • G01G17/00Apparatus for or methods of weighing material of special form or property
    • G01G17/08Apparatus for or methods of weighing material of special form or property for weighing livestock

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  • the invention relates to a fish sorting apparatus comprising a weighing compartment adapted to receive a single fish, a weighing device mechanically coupled to the weighing compartment, adapted to detect the weight force exerted by the fish on the weighing compartment.
  • a method for fish sorting is another aspect of the invention.
  • Fish sorting devices of this kind are used, for example, to sort sea-furred animals according to their weight.
  • the use, purpose and manner of use of these fish sorting facilities are based on the fact that, despite the minimum size of the animals caught in a catch quantity given by the mesh density of a net, there is a considerable variation in the size and weight of the animals caught. For the purpose of a classification into individual groups, which go into further trade and sales, therefore, a corresponding sorting is made.
  • the invention has for its object to improve the efficiency of aquaculture systems for the maintenance of fish. Another object of the invention is to provide a fish rearing process which improves the economy of fish farming in aquaculture systems.
  • a device for fish sorting of the type mentioned which is further developed by at least two discharge openings, through which a fish can be removed from the Fischsor- animalvoriques, a sorting device, which is designed to sort the fish from the weighing compartment optionally into one of the at least two discharge openings, an actuator unit mechanically coupled to the sorting device, which actuates a movable sorting element of the sorting device for sorting the fish into one of the discharge openings, and one signal-technically coupled to the weighing device and the actuator unit control unit, which is designed to o a determined by the weighing device weight force with at least one limit weight force, o the actuator unit in dependence of the comparison of the weight to
  • the sorting device can in particular optimize the rearing of fish in aquacultures such that after a relatively short period of time, for example one-tenth of the entire rearing period, the stocking fish exposed in a common basin are subjected to a first sorting process by weight and in this case be divided into two or more pools.
  • This division takes place according to the sorting device according to the invention and the sorting method according to the invention by weight classes, ie one or more weight limits are defined and the fish are sorted according to these weight limits.
  • this sorting By means of this sorting, which is possible with the sorting device according to the invention and used for the sorting method according to the invention, an advantageous distribution of the fish from a basin initially serving for common breeding to two or more basins is achieved.
  • This sorting can determine the success of the harvest to improve to the extent that the fish, which could achieve no or only insufficient weight gain in the previous, shared pool, have a normal or better than normal development and weight gain after sorting, whereby at the end of a rearing period the stocking fish originally used metamorphosed show a closer together achieved total weight gain.
  • the sorting device according to the invention and the sorting method according to the invention are particularly suitable for carrying out such sorting several times at predetermined time intervals on a fish population, for example around the stocking fish originally used in a single common pool in a first sorting on a plurality from a rearing tank by weight class to distribute out of these basins the fish again after a further rearing period on a plurality b of rearing tanks and possibly one or more further sorting operations on a plurality of c, d Aufzuchtbecken in other periods make, where a ⁇ b ⁇ c ⁇ d ... applies.
  • the weighing compartment according to the invention is designed in such a way that a single, live fish can be received therein gently.
  • the weighing compartment preferably has a length of the intended length of the adult fish, for example of at least half a meter, and a preferably V-shaped bottom in which the fish is held transversely to the longitudinal direction by the V-shape.
  • the weighing compartment may be limited by further side and end walls to reliably avoid jumping out of the fish.
  • the weighing device coupled to the weighing compartment may in particular comprise one or more force sensors, for example load cells based on strain gauging technology. These load cells can support the weighing compartment in a tensile or compressive force assembly in a frame and in this way detect the weight of the weighing compartment and a fish stored therein, if necessary.
  • force sensors for example load cells based on strain gauging technology. These load cells can support the weighing compartment in a tensile or compressive force assembly in a frame and in this way detect the weight of the weighing compartment and a fish stored therein, if necessary.
  • single-axis or multiaxial force sensors can be used and, with regard to the calculation of the measured forces of these force sensors, customary calculation methods are used taking into account the geometric position of the force sensors.
  • Under a mechanical coupling is in this case generally a kraftschreibiragende connection to understand that can be achieved for example by means of direct mechanical connection, but alternatively also by indirect power transmission, for example by means of hydraulic or pneumatic elements.
  • the fish sorting device according to the invention can also have three or even more discharge openings. Such an outflow makes it possible to divide one fish population into two or more groups by defining several limit weight forces and using them as limits for the groups.
  • three discharge openings can be provided and fish below a lower limit weight force can be discharged through the first discharge opening, fish discharged above an upper limit weight force, discharged through a third discharge opening, and fish between the lower and upper limit weight force be discharged through the second ejection opening.
  • a sorting device with mechanically coupled actuator unit which can sort a fish from the weighing compartment into either one of the at least two discharge openings.
  • this sorting device with actuator unit can consist of a guide flap which can be moved, in particular pivoted, by means of the actuator unit so that a fish is guided out of the weighing compartment either in the direction of the one or in the direction of the other discharge opening.
  • the sorter is at the same time the bottom of the weighing compartment, whereby the process of Abieitens the fish from the weighing compartment and Zuieitens the fish to one of the two Ausschteuseö Maschinenen can be accomplished by a single aktuatorbetrucddle movement of a single component of the sorting device according to the invention, in further embodiments
  • a single guide element by positioning in one of three optional positions also a sorting of a fish from the weighing compartment into one of three Ausscherieö Maschinenen done.
  • the sorter can also comprise two different baffles, which preferably form the bottom of the weighing compartment and have an independent activation of these two baffles by means of two actuators in order to guide a fish either to one or to the other ejection opening.
  • a control unit is further provided which receives the determined individual weight of a fish from the weighing device and can compare this with a limit weight force. On the basis of this comparison, the control unit can then control the actuator unit accordingly in order to feed the fish according to its weight to one of the two or more discharge openings.
  • the control unit is designed to compare, for a first number of fish, the weight force of each fish with a first limit weight force, to calculate a second limit weight force based on the measured weight forces of this first number of fish, and comparing, in a subsequent second number of fish, the weight of each fish with this second limit weight force.
  • a fish population ie a number of fish to be sorted, is sorted in such a way that the limit weight force applied thereto for a first fish quantity is different from the limit weight force for a second fish quantity.
  • this sorting method can also be applied to sorting operations in which the fish are subdivided into more than two groups and in which two or more limit weight forces are used as a comparison variable to differentiate the groups among one another. Accordingly, in these embodiments, two or more first limit weight forces would be applied to a first number of fish and two or more second limit weight forces to a second number of fish. This training allows a very precise and breeding-friendly sorting fish of a fish population.
  • a more precise sorting method can be implemented, in which, on the basis of the measurement results for a predetermined number of fish of the fish population, an insight is drawn about the individual weights, their distribution or average value or the like within the fish populace, and then from this characteristic value drawn in this way a limit weight force is calculated and applied to subsequent sorting operations of the same fish population, which results in a sorting that takes into account the previous growth development of the fish population and thus precise sorting.
  • the sorting process is started without the need for such prior samples by an initially realistic set limit weight force is used as sorting criterion. Following this, however, the sorting device will itself determine a new limit weight force based on the collected measurement results and then perform subsequent sorting operations on the basis of this limit weight force itself.
  • initial limit weight force also obtained on the basis of random samples Grenzgeracechts rule be used, but this is not required according to the invention and can be replaced by other, approximately determined limit weight forces.
  • the calculation of a second limit weight force may also be followed by a calculation of a third limit weight force, for example after a number of fish sorted after the second limit weight force, further specifying the sorting operation based on the then further detected To make data.
  • control unit comprises a user interface for data entry and an electronic storage device and is further configured to store in the electronic storage device one or more of the following fish population characteristics a total number of fish of the fish population, an age or an age distribution of the fish of the fish population, a dated individual weight or a dated single weight distribution of the fish of the fish population, a growth curve of the fish describing a relationship between age or rearing time intervals to individual weights or individual weight distributions of the fish of the fish population, the type of fish population, and rearing parameters of the fish population in particular the amount, intervals and type of feed, water temperature, stocking density, a predicted individual weight or pr.
  • control unit comprises a user interface or a storage unit and that the control unit is configured to receive distribution data describing a specific distribution specification of a fish population in two or more groups from the user interface or from the storage unit read on the basis of these fish distribution data to determine an initial limit weight force, perform one or more weighing operations of different fish and to compare the weighted fish (s) with the initial limiting weight force as a limit weight force and supply according to one of the discharge openings, after one or several weighing operations from the weight forces determined therein to determine a first population characteristic characterizing the fish population, to calculate from this population characteristic a corrected limit weight force, subsequent weighing - Performing and sorting operations of the other fish of the fish population and to compare the weighted fish here with the thus applied corrected limit weight force as Grenziss- and supply according to one of the discharge openings, the control device has a processor which is adapted to the corrected limit weight force on the basis of Population characteristic value to be determined so that the subsequent weighing and sorting operations a predetermined distribution of fish distribution data
  • fish distribution data which can optionally be input via a user interface or are already stored in the control unit in a storage unit.
  • This fish Distribution data describe a way in which the fish are to be sorted by the sorting device according to the invention.
  • fish distribution data may be provided which sort the fish based on a limit weight such that fish below the limit weight into the one Group and fish above the limit weight can be sorted into the other group.
  • advantageous sorting specifications on the fish distribution data are also adjustable for further rearing.
  • fish distribution data can be provided, which pretend that the fish should be divided into two by number equal groups, this division is such that one group containing smaller in weight fish and the other group contains the larger in weight fish .
  • the fish distribution data dictate that the fish population be divided into two groups that are consistent in terms of the sum of the individual weights of the fish contained therein, again one group being the smaller in weight and the other being the heavier by weight Contains fish. It is obvious that the two last-mentioned sorting methods can effect a sorting which is advantageous for further rearing but can not be achieved with an initially fixed limit weight force but instead require the limiting weight force to be determined on the basis of the individual weights of the fish within the fish population and this individual weight distribution becomes.
  • the developed fish sorting device provides that first one, but preferably several weighing operations of different individual fish is carried out. These fish are sorted according to an initial limit weight force, possibly due to a not yet conclusively true choice of this Grenzissskraft incorrect sorting of these first weighed fish is accepted or the fish are cached for subsequent sorting in an intermediate basin.
  • this initial limit weight force is determined based on statistical data and experience in the rearing so that the predefined by the fish distribution data fish distribution is achieved by this sorting already in good approximation. From the first weighing operations carried out in this way, a single or several population characteristic values are then determined.
  • These population characteristics may represent, for example, an average weight of the weighed animals, a standard deviation of the individual weights of the weighed animals, and other statistical data such as median / maximum / or minimum value or the like. From this population characteristic value, a corrected limit weight force is then calculated by the control unit according to the invention. These corrected weighting takes into account the growth development and distribution within the fish population to be sorted from the population parameters and extrapolates these to the entire fish population. The corrected limit weight force is then used for further sorting operations to divide the fish into the desired groups.
  • the corrected limit weight force is calculated in such a way that, by applying this limit weight force to the total fish population, assuming that the individual weights already determined allow a statistical representation of the distribution of individual weights on the fish of the fish population representative of the total fish population, a distribution of those fish is established The fish distribution data across the several groups.
  • the fish distribution data may also include a corresponding fish distribution requirement for several groups, for example, the requirement that the fish of a fish population be divided among three groups of each other by weight with respect to the individual weights of the fish contained therein staggered and containing a matching total sum of the total amount of fish contained therein.
  • the control unit comprising a user interface or an electronic storage unit and in that the control unit is adapted to receive fish distribution data entered into the user interface or stored in the electronic storage unit, which one or more of The following distribution requirements shall apply: o a distribution of the fish population to two or more groups of different weight classes, or a distribution of the fish population to two or more groups of different weight classes, one to the total weight of fish in a group; maximum difference in weight between the lightest and heaviest fish of a group of fish, and from these fish distribution data, one or more limiting weight forces, according to which the fish population is to be divided and, if necessary, to calculate a number of groups into which the fish population is to be divided.
  • particularly advantageous fish distribution data are defined for the rearing of the birds and the control unit for processing and establishing corresponding targets with regard to the limiting weight forces is trained on such fish distribution data.
  • control unit is signaled by the weighing device for receiving individual weights of the fish weighed therein and designed to calculate from the thus received individual weights of one or more fish a population characteristic comprising one or more of the following characteristics o an average individual weight of the weighed fish, o statistical distribution characteristics of the individual weights of the weighed fish, in particular standard deviation, quantiles such as median, quartile, percentiles, maximum and / or minimum weight, o a distribution curve of the individual weights of the fish over the number of fish, o a number of the weighed fish, and from these population characteristics, one or more limiting weight forces by which to divide the fish population and, if necessary, to calculate a number of groups into which the fish population is to be divided.
  • a population characteristic comprising one or more of the following characteristics o an average individual weight of the weighed fish, o statistical distribution characteristics of the individual weights of the weighed fish, in particular standard deviation, quantiles such as median, quartile, percentiles, maximum and / or minimum weight,
  • control unit is developed in such a way that it can either propose or directly carry out sorting which is advantageous for further rearing, based on the knowledge gained from the first measurements on the single weight of the fish within the fish population, by determining either one or more limit weight forces or, if appropriate, even the number of advantageous groups to be created are proposed or taken into account in the sorting.
  • a fish population that has only a small variation in the individual weights of fish for further breeding is limited to only a few. For example, split two groups to achieve a beneficial for each fish of the fish population breeding behavior.
  • Fish populations which show a greater dispersion of the individual weights of the fish ("broad distribution bell") are advantageously divided into several groups, for example three groups, in order to achieve optimized breeding behavior for each individual fish in the population to sort fish with the same or slightly different individual weights into a group.
  • the weighing compartment is mechanically coupled via one or more load cells, in particular via four load cells, to a holding frame arranged above the weighing compartment.
  • the design with four load cells allows a suspension of the weighing compartment at four arranged in the rectangle breakpoints and therefore allows on the one hand a safe for the fish arrangement of typically electrically measuring load cells with respect to dripping water, on the other hand an ergonomic design of the weighing compartment with good accessibility for supplying the isolated Fishes. Furthermore, it is avoided by the hanging arrangement of the weighing compartment that the load cells are damaged by dripping out of the weighing compartment water and impaired in their function.
  • the weighing compartment has a V-shaped bottom which comprises a first pivotally mounted bottom flap actuated by a first actuator and a second bottom pivotally actuated bottom flap actuated by a second actuator, the V-shaped bottom flap Ground in the direction of gravity above the first and second Ausschleuseö réelle is released by pivoting the first bottom flap a passage between the weighing compartment and the first Aussschleuseö réelle through which a fish moves by gravity from the weighing compartment to the first discharge opening, and by pivoting the second bottom flap a passage opening is released between the weighing compartment and the second outflow opening, through which a fish is influenced by gravity from the weighing compartment to the second
  • additional rigid or movable guide means may be provided to ensure that the fish, even if they move during the sorting operation and consequently do not follow a line of gravity, get into the intended ejection opening.
  • an ejection compartment may be provided, in which the animals first come to rest and from which they then emerge from the sorting device through the ejection opening.
  • the weighing compartment is designed to receive a fish in a horizontal position setner longitudinal body axis, each out of the weighing compartment outgoing passage opening arranged and designed such that a fish perpendicular to its body longitudinal axis from the weighing compartment into a first, second and gfs. third Ausschumblefach which is associated with the first, second or third Ausschieusö réelle slides, and that the fish from the first, second and gfs. third. Ausschskafach in the direction of setner body longitudinal axis through the first, second and third ejection opening slides.
  • a fish-friendly weighing and sorting of the fish in the fish sorting device is achieved.
  • the weighing compartment being designed to determine by means of electrical energy a weight of a fish inserted therein and to transmit it to a control device powered by electrical energy and that the actuator unit is operated by means of pneumatic energy Actuating the sorting device, and further characterized by an electrical energy store for supplying the weighing compartment and the control unit and a pneumatic energy store for actuating the actuator unit,
  • the invention relates to a fish sorting method which comprises the following steps:
  • the fish sorting method according to the invention opens up a particularly advantageous type of fish sorting, which is the basis for optimized rearing of the fish.
  • the fish sorting method according to the invention can be used for this purpose in particular several times in the course of rearing a fish population to divide each of the fish of the fish population into several groups in which move the weight of the fish in a similar range.
  • FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the embodiment according to FIG.
  • Fig. 3 a frontal end view of the embodiment of Figure 1 ,.
  • Fig. 4 is a sectional view taken along the line A-A in Fig. 2 end view of the embodiment of FIG. 1, and
  • FIG. 5 shows a side view of the embodiment according to FIG. 1
  • FIGS 1 to 5 show a fish sorting device designed to divide fish into a total of three groups.
  • the fish sorting device comprises a weighing compartment 10, which is formed by a front-side end wall 11, a rear-side end wall 12 and pivotable bottom flaps 13, 14.
  • a circular recess 21 is formed through which isolated fish can be introduced in a substantially horizontal direction of movement from the outside into the weighing compartment.
  • a corresponding circular recess 22 is formed, which can also serve to supply isolated fish.
  • the two bottom flaps 13, 14 are arranged obliquely with respect to the horizontal and thus extend in a cross section through the weighing compartment from the top outside obliquely downwards inside. At its upper outer end, the two bottom flaps are each pivotally mounted about an axis 13a, 14a extending along the upper outer edge. At its lower, inner longitudinal edge 13b, 14b, the two bottom flaps 13, 14 are closely adjacent to each other and thereby form a cross-sectionally V-shaped bottom surface of the weighing compartment.
  • the rear end wall 12 is attached by means of two spaced apart at its upper edge spaced from each other load cells 31, 32 hanging on a rectangular upper frame.
  • the front end wall 11 is also attached by means of a single, centrally above the recess 21 arranged load cell 33 also hanging on this frame 40.
  • the bottom flaps 13, 14 are pivotally mounted in the front and rear end wall 11, 12 and thus fastened exclusively to these end walls. Furthermore, the side of the weighing compartment and the bottom flaps 13, 14 shielding, fenestrated side walls on the front and rear end wall 11, 12 are attached. Apart from the load cells 31-33, the weighing compartment is not connected to the frame of the receiving device at any other point and thus suspended freely suspended. In this way, by means of the load cells 31-33 reliably the weight of a fish, which rests on the bottom flaps 13, 14 in the weighing compartment, are measured.
  • the horizontal frame 40 is supported by four vertical support struts 50a-d down to a ground contact patch. In the lower region of these vertical support struts 50a-d, a further horizontally extending rectangular frame 60 is attached.
  • This frame 60 carries a total of three tubes whose diameter is such that a fish can slide through these tubes.
  • the tubes 61-63 are slightly inclined relative to the horizontal such that they drop off slightly from the end face 11 to the back face 12, whereby a fish can slide in this descending direction through the tubes 61-63.
  • the tubes 61-63 are located in the direction of gravity below the weighing compartment.
  • the middle tube 62 is open at its top, below the weighing compartment, over a circumference of approximately 180 °, so that a fish can fall from the weighing compartment into the tube in the radial direction.
  • the two lateral tubes 61, 63 are also in the Below the weighing compartment lying area cut upwards, and over a circumferential range of about 110 ° and pointing to the weighing tray.
  • the bottom flap 13 can be pivoted out of its shown position about the axis 13a in such a way that its lower edge 13b moves outwards.
  • a fish resting on the bottom flaps 13, 14 slides laterally out of the weighing compartment and enters the outer tube 61 radially from above. Following this, this fish slides due to the slight inclination of the tube 61 through the tube and emerges from the discharge opening 61a, to be promoted from here optionally further gravity or by means of a conveyor in a first basin.
  • the bottom flap 14 can be pivoted by means of a pneumatic Drehak- tuators 74, thereby causing an oblique sliding of the fish outward into the outer tube 63 and a discharge of the fish from the Ausschleu- se opening 63a.
  • a pneumatic linear actuator 72 is arranged, which acts on an arcuate, slide-like guide 72a on two levers 72b, c, and pivots this.
  • the levers 72b, c in turn act on two pivotable guide flaps 15, 16 below the bottom flaps 13, 14
  • These lettuce flaps serve to laterally delimit a drop shaft for the fish.
  • pivoting the baffles in a broken lines 15 '. 16 'shown in Fig. 4 vertical position open the bottom flaps 13, 14 simultaneously.
  • the weighing compartment is opened downwards in such a way that a fish arranged therein enters radially downward into the tube 62 and exits from there through the discharge opening 62a from the sorting device.
  • the load cells 31-33 and pneumatic actuators 72-74 are signal coupled to a controller (not shown).
  • This control device is designed to evaluate the signals of the load cells 31-33 so that a weight of a fish is determined therefrom. Based on the thus-determined fish weight, the control device decides whether to compare this fish with a first, second or third group by comparing it with two threshold weight forces, and actuates the actuators 72-74 accordingly so that the fish is either the first tube 61, the second pipe 62 or the third pipe 63 is fed out of the weighing compartment out.
  • the control device proceeds as follows:
  • this data at the time of the sorting becomes the breeding time since insertion of the stocking fish in the rearing tank and calculated therefrom an estimate of the average fish weight of all fish in the rearing tank as well as a distribution of these individual weights over the entire fish population.
  • the control device recommends, via a user interface for outputting data, in this case a touch-sensitive screen, the user a certain sorting method and in doing so gives a recommendation about a number of groups into which the fish population should be divided and a division.
  • This distribution will typically consist of an indication of the number of fish per group or the total summed weight of all the fish in a group.
  • the data thus output as a recommendation are determined by the control device from previously stored empirical values and curves about an optimal rearing process of the corresponding fish species.
  • the user has the possibility to follow this recommendation or make a change of this recommendation resulting from his experience, the possibilities of his breeding operation or the like, insofar as the user can perform the number of groups to be sorted and the group definition via a user interface for data entry.
  • the sorting process is selected with the pictured Fischsorttervoriques so that the fish are sorted into a maximum of three groups.
  • the searing device according to the invention can also be developed in order to sort fish into more than three groups, in that the bottom flaps can be pivoted variably in a corresponding manner to a fish lying in the weighing compartment in one of four, five or pipe more pipes.
  • the fish sorting device shown as an embodiment can be sorted into more than three groups by performing a multiple sorting, for example by first sorting two groups on the tubes 61 and 63 with a desired division into a total of five groups and the other three groups be sorted on the middle tube 62 and subsequently from the tube 62nd Re-sorting fish into a buffer tank is re-sorted into three groups.
  • the fish sorter device After the fish sorter device has weighed a total of 30 fish in this way, a statistical description of the weight distribution within the fish population to be sorted is made on the basis of these 30 determined individual weights.
  • the characteristic used is an average and a thirty and seventy percent percentile and on this basis the weight distribution of the individual weights of the fish within the entire population is estimated.
  • the two limit weight forces calculated for the distribution of the first thirty fish from empirical values are corrected in order to achieve the desired distribution with further sorting of the entire fish of the fish population.
  • the procedure is such that a fish, which falls below a lower limit weight force is passed into the first tube 61, a fish, which exceeds an upper limit weight force is passed into the third tube 63 and a fish, which reaches the upper limit weight force or falls below and reaches the lower weight force or exceeds in the middle tube 62 is passed.

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