{"id":9654,"date":"2016-02-02T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2016\/02\/02\/new-company-to-develop-submersible-fish-farming-facilities-for-salmon\/"},"modified":"2016-02-02T10:23:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T10:23:00","slug":"new-company-to-develop-submersible-fish-farming-facilities-for-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/new-company-to-develop-submersible-fish-farming-facilities-for-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"New company to develop submersible fish-farming facilities for salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been established in partnership with the companies Sinkaberg-Hansen AS and Egersund Net AS.<\/p>\n<p>Atlantis Subsea Farming AS has applied for six development licences to enable large scale development and testing of new technology and operational concept.<\/p>\n<p>Through its development work, which started in summer 2014, Atlantis aims to contribute to better and more sustainable use of current farming sites.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to achieve production gains and improve fish welfare by submerging the facilities, as they will be less exposed to environmental and physical conditions than in a surface position.<\/p>\n<p>Testing will take place on a large scale to focus on the third-party documentation of fish welfare and the production performance, as well as the capabilities of the system and the health and safety of employees.<\/p>\n<p>With the projects are a number of risks. The testing of the technological and operational solutions requires large-scale testing beyond what can be done in today\u2019s fish farms based on traditional operating methods.<\/p>\n<p>The further progress of the project will depend on the company being granted development licences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AKVA group ASA has established the company Atlantis Subsea Farming AS with the purpose of developing submersible fish-farming facilities for salmon on an industrial scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9654"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}