Marine Harvest takes delivery of new open sea pens
Fish farm equipment manufacturer Fusion Marine has delivered eight Triton 450 Open Sea (OS) salmon pens for Marine Harvest’s Marulaig Bay site in South Uist, Outer Hebrides, UK, in an order worth more than £300,000 (€350,520/S433,880).
The new Triton OS pens have been developed to meet the demanding conditions found in open sea salmon farming operations and have already been successfully used in a number of offshore fish farming locations around the world, said Scottish-based Fusion.
The pens specified by Marine Harvest are constructed from two thick-walled 450mm polyethylene (PE) pipes, designed to resist impact and reduce distortion in stormy offshore conditions.
As well as the pens, the fish farm package supplied to Marine Harvest included a new design of sinker tube to help maintain the integrity of the underwater containment nets, combined with net supports to keep out fish eating birds.
David MacGillivary, regional manager for Marine Harvest said: “We had a Triton pen on trial for the whole of the last cycle and it proved to be the best pen on site for both strength and workability for the specific conditions at this location.”
Iain Forbes of Fusion Marine explained the company has worked closely with Marine Harvest for a number of years.
“We firmly believe Triton has huge potential for future salmon farming operations, particularly with the move in the next few years to more offshore locations,” said Forbes.
“As a Scottish manufacturer of fish farm pens, it is particularly encouraging that all of the major Scottish-based salmon aquaculture producers have placed some significant orders in recent months, which in the current financial climate is great news for the local economy.”
