ES2679718B1 - Cage for aquaculture - Google Patents

Description

CAGE FOR AQUACULTURE

OBJECT OF THE INVENTION

The present invention "cage for aquaculture" refers to a structure for the breeding of aquatic animal and plant species.

The object of this invention is the design of a structure capable of resisting and being viable in waters exposed to harsh weather conditions, especially marine, maintaining its design and production form. It stands out its optimization in the production of the species, minimizing the cost of conservation and maintenance of the system, as well as the control of leaks, cost of separation and extraction of species, minimizing the ecological impacts of dead anchors and anchorage lines of the traditional systems. Ease of use in different and irregular sea beds.

The present invention forms part of the aquaculture sector. Facilitating the classification, breeding, fattening and extraction of aquatic breeding species.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

As is known, there are different types of cages for breeding and fattening of aquatic animals in aquaculture, differentiated by the type of installation, type of structure, type of aquatic animals to be reared, materials used, depending on their destination or proximity to the coast, taking :

• Coastal facilities (onshore):

from 0.5 to 2 km from the coast

between 10 and 30 m deep

in protected places, bays, fjords, estuaries ...

waves less than 1 m

winds of short periods

coastal currents (tides)

accessibility for more than 95% of the days

face-to-face supervision, feeding, etc.

• Installations in the open sea (offshore):

more than 3 km from the coast

more than 30 m deep

in exposed places. Oceanic areas open waves of more than 2 m. Winds conditions of variable periods

80% of accessible days, until at least every 3-10 days remote feeding operations, supervision (automated)

• Fish culture:

Rigid and flexible structures

Fixed structures

Floating structures

Submerged structures: self-submersible or with controlled buoyancy

Mobile structures

• Shellfish culture: Bates, long lines, etc.

DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

The structure object of the invention has been designed and conceived with such structural and functional characteristics that it takes into account the characteristics pointed out in the previous sections, in a way that it can be conceived as a polyvalent structure as regards its location with respect to the coast, being a fixed structure, rigid but at the same time easy to reconfigure in different ways.

It consists of the placement of some piles with several longitudinal guides, between them one or more networks may be placed, so that it is joined to the pile through the longitudinal guides, these will be closing with the bed (marine or fluvial) and in the coronation to the guide wire between piles. Pile guides can be part of it or be part of rings that can be placed after the execution of the piles.

More than one network per side can be placed in order to facilitate the substitutions, repairs or maintenance of the same avoiding the escapes of animals. A central pile can also be placed, (Figure 2) so that possible partitions can be generated in the system floor. This would facilitate the extractions of animals.

As you can see, the configurations can be infinite

The bottom of the cage can be the bed itself or can be placed a network that will be anchored to the guides between piles

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The structure is composed of a series of functional elements of characteristic design, which can be identified in the attached drawings:

FIGURE N ° 1 can be observed a plan view of the system with a rectangular configuration. In this figure it can be observed how more than one network can be placed per side.

FIGURE N ° 2 can be observed another rectangular configuration in plan with a central pile.

PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

The structure consists basically of the placement of my series of piles (1) with several longitudinal guides (2), with a diameter d and a height h, determined by the type of soil, pile material, exposure to the media, depth, calculation structural thereof, etc. separated a distance D and in a variable plant. Between them, one or more nets (3) may be placed, so that it is joined to the pile through the longitudinal guides, these will be closing with the bed (marine or fluvial) and in the coronation to the guide wire between piles. The guides of the piles can be part of it or be part of rings that can be placed after the execution of the piles.

Claims (2)

1. - Cage for aquaculture, characterized because it is formed with the placement of a series of piles (1) with several longitudinal guides (2); between them, one or more nets (3) may be placed, so that they are joined to the pile through the longitudinal guides, these will be closing with the bed (marine or fluvial) and in the coronation to the guide wire between piles. 2. - Cage for aquaculture. in all according to claim 1, characterized in that the guides of the piles can be part of it or be part of rings that can be placed after the execution of the piles.