THE FUTURE IS NOW FOR OPEN OCEAN AQUACULTURE: HOW TECHNOLOGY BROUGHT US THE FARM OF TOMORROW, TODAY

As recently as 15 years ago, producing high- quality fish from open ocean farms in an environmentally sustainable  and commercial  way was considered unattainable.  Today, investors are able to conceptualize,  site,  plan, and execute financially viable open ocean aquaculture projects in conjunction with local governments at high-energy sites, once thought too rough for fish pens .  Using a data-driven and scalable approach, farmers can provide healthy and sustainable protein for local and international markets from the open ocean .   

With aggressive R&D and M&A strategies, Innovasea has been able to address  operational and analytical challenges  experienced by  pioneers of the open ocean aquaculture market . From its inception —the acquisition and merger of the top  two  submersible pen  technology companies—Innovasea set the pace of innovation for high energy environments.  Today, Innovasea not only delivers the most stable and scalable submersible pen systems in the world , but also offers solutions such as submerg ed pen feeding solutions,  diver-less mortality retrieval, real-time farm data analysis , and artificial intelligence  products.  These offerings allow fish to grow in healthy environments below surface energy.

Innovasea is not just  setting the standard in terms of  underwater feeding technology , it has innovated  a new way fish farmers approach feeding .   By using a water-based delivery system,  submerged pens can be fed from distances as far away as 500 meters.  This in order to avoid  missed feed days due to storms or biological threats, like algal blooms, at the surface.   Using wireless sensor and camera array, along with artificial intelligence (AI),  feed technicians are now able to  visualize  and analyze their stock.  From determining  fish satiation to determining their standing biomass, AI platforms have been developed to improve feed conversion ratios (FCR).

This presentation will  describe the challenges of open ocean installations and the innovations  deployed by Innovasea to help manage them.  These solutions are in the space of  IoT,  wireless data collection and analysis tools, as well as  new  fish pen types. Technologies  are all in use now by  the "farms of tomorrow."