| Once the highlight of the week for many families, fish n’ chips is in danger of becoming a rare luxury. Overfishing has lead to the humble cod being practically fished to extinction in areas such as the North Sea and the North Atlantic. Just as fish farming has revolutionised the production, availability and consequently the price of salmon, experts are now looking to the latest gas-enabled technologies to do the same for cod.
State-of-the-art research centre
And Linde Gas is at the forefront of these developments. At its test and development centre in Ålesund on the Norwegian coast, the company researches how gases behave in water. It complements these insights with the experience it has gained through close cooperation with some of Europe’s leading fish farms to deliver complete systems for the ever-growing fish-farming market.
These systems extend from gases through technology for adding oxygen to the water to software for optimising breeding conditions. Highly specialised oxygenation solutions create and maintain optimum gas levels to ensure controlled and disease-free environments for successful fish-fry breeding.
Pining for the fjords …
Norway is leading the way for fish farming in Europe. Each year it produces some 500,000 tons of fish. Increasingly, Norwegian fish experts are investing in cod. One such company is Havlandet Marin Yngel. Havlandet has experienced first hand the benefits of working with Linde Gas’ Norwegian subsidiary AGA AS and the insights it can share from its test and development centre.
“The company provides us with invaluable support because concrete, application-specific knowledge is essential to create the kind of balanced, robust environment needed for such a sensitive and vulnerable farming programme,” says Havlandet’s CEO Halvard Hovland. He then goes on to explain that “the knowledge and experience that AGA has shared with us has enabled us to increase our competence and thus the quality and volume of the fish we produce.” |
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