Assisting the fishing industry

摘要

Our seas and oceans are a breeding ground for an abundance of high protein food: fish. Fish requires three to eight times less valuable nutrients per kilogramme of food when compared to land mammals. Therefore, fish - if managed prudently - can be considered an important sustainable food resource to feed the increasing world population, while keeping our carbon footprint limited. Fish can be cultivated in fish farms or caught at sea, with both methods requiring large, flexible net (supporting) structures. These net structures are exposed to strong current and wave loads near the water surface. At the same time, the net structures have to be robust to ensure safe and clean oceans. MARIN assists its clients by determining the hydrodynamic loads and associated deformations and structural loads of these flexible nets and their supporting constructions.