12318 results about "Fishery" patented technology

A computer-controlled, automated checkout store outlet comprises at least one bay. A normally locked door is associated with each bay, and provides access to items within the bay by customers approved by a computer of the automated store outlet. At least one tray is disposed within at least one bay, and adapted to hold items to be stocked by the bay. A sensor system is configured to detect the removal of an item from the bay and identify the removed item, such as when a customer is removing the item for purchase.

Provided herein are systems and methods for producing eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and/or derivatives and/or mixtures thereof by growing algae that produce the oils containing EPA and/or DHA and/or derivatives and/or mixtures thereof, harvesting the algae with fish in one or more enclosed systems, and then processing fish to separate and purify the EPA and/or DHA. The multi-trophic systems provided herein comprise at least one enclosure that contains the algae and the fishes, and means for controllably feeding the algae to the fishes. Also provided herein are the lipid compositions extracted from the fishes.

An additive for fowl's feed is prepared from more Chinese-medicinal materials, and can serve to improve immunity, promote appetite and absorption, and relieve inflammation. Its advantages are high effect and low cost.

A method and a device for automatically detecting and signaling the presence of prey caught in a trap. The trap has inlet ports equipped with a one-way inlet mechanism such that once a rodent has passed a central point the rodent is contained within the trap. After the rodent has passed the central point, the trap is reset to the start position in order to attract additional prey. The trap is provided with a device for signaling the presence of vermin in the trap. The mechanism may be operable via a push button operated by movement of the vermin. Alternatively, means for detecting the rodent may include the use of vertical or horizontally elongated elements that are actuated by the movement of the vermin. A further embodiment includes a photocell, or a sensor, to indicate the presence of rodents. The mechanism for signaling may include lights or sound devices that can be secured to the trap or remotely activated via wired or wireless means. The signaling device can be time delayed such that additional vermin can enter the trap before intervention by the operator and is also capable of monitoring several traps concurrently.

The present invention relates to a recirculating marine aquaculture process for production of a crab species, including (i) a broodstock conditioning, (ii) spawning, (iii) egg incubation, (iv) larval growth, (v) nursery post-larval growth, and (vi) grow-out of the crab to a final product weight, in which each stage (i)-(vi) of the process involves operation in an aqueous medium that is coupled in liquid recirculation relationship with means for removing waste components from the aqueous medium and returning purified aqueous medium to the external environment. The process involves operation in a closed, recirculating aquaculture system in which photoperiod, water temperature, water chemistry, and diet are optimized and then continuously monitored and controlled to obtain optimal production at each of the six phases (i)-(vi) of the life cycle.

The present invention relates to a netpen for breeding, storage, or transport of fish in the sea, in particular completely or in part in open sea regions outside the skerries, wherein the netpen may be lowered in the sea to a desired depth when needed, wherein the netpen may be elevated to a half or approximately half submerged state for various work operations, such as maintenance and inspection of the netpen or harvesting, and wherein netpen has a substantially spherical geometry. The invention is characterized in that the netpen consists of a framework of stays (1, 2, 3, 4) mainly comprising polyethylene or polyethylene-like materials, such as PolyEthylene Low Density (PELD) or PolyEthylene High Density (PEHD), preferably PEHD, a horizontal through center pole (5) also serving as a buoyancy adjusting element for elevation and lowering of the netpen, a horseshoe-shaped working platform (6) having an integrated dock (7) for working vessels, the entire working platform including dock being liftable and lowerable through buoyancy adjustment by means of a designated element (13), and the working deck being mounted on an extended axle (15) on the center pole in such a manner that the netpen may be rotated inside said working deck. On said axle, through lines (8), there are also attached buoys (10) that gives the netpen sufficient reserve buoyancy in normal position as well as weighting organs (9) that, when the netpen is to be stabilized fully submerged at a desired depth, is landed on the sea floor; alternatively, the netpen is stabilized at the desired depth due to the reserve buoyancy in the floatation unit (30) and the floatation element (23), as shown in FIG. 30. Life-supporting functions, such as fodder, energy, and air, are being supplied to the netpen through a lifeline from a nearby floatation unit (30), preferably a platform being an integrated part of the anchoring for the netpen.

The present invention relates to a method of tackling sea red tides and fresh water bloom using clay as algae flocculant. The effective component of the flocculant is hydrated magnesio-silicate salt in the laminated structure including upper and lower silicon-oxygen tetrahedron layers and sandwiched magnesium-oxygen octahedron layer. The hydrated magnesio-silicate salt is easy to prepare, low in cost and high in algae flocculating elimination effect.

A computer-controlled, automated checkout store outlet comprises at least one bay. A normally locked door is associated with each bay, and provides access to items within the bay by customers approved by a computer of the automated store outlet. At least one tray is disposed within at least one bay, and adapted to hold items to be stocked by the bay. A sensor system is configured to detect the removal of an item from the bay and identify the removed item, such as when a customer is removing the item for purchase.

The invention discloses step-type fish passage facilities suitable for the steep slope of a high dam and a control method, and relates to intersection fields of aquatic engineering and hydraulic engineering, in particular to a fishway building suitable for the steep slope of the high dam and a fish passage control method. The fishway in the invention is a step-type fishway building established onthe steep slope of the dam body, which is combined by step-type relays of a plurality of rectangular pools, and also comprises a fish passage monitoring system, a computer automatic control system, anoverflow water fish luring device in the fishway and a fish luring device of inlet and outlet of the fishway. The invention can lead the migratory fish to pass the dam timely without injure of the migratory fish and has the outstanding features of low physical ability consumption, no inverse effects on gonadal development, high automatic degree, relative shorter fishway (steep slope) and saving investment and the like, thus fundamentally changing the defect that other structural types of fishway pass through the high dam.

The invention provides a compound Chinese herbal medicine immunopotentiator for fish, containing by weight of: 40-50% of astragalus, 10-20% of angelica, 15-20% of glycyrrhiza, 5-10% of hawthorn, 5-12% of honeysuckle and 5-12% of isatis. Advantages of the invention is that: (1) the immunopotentiator of the invention has no adverse effect on palatability of feedstuff, (2) body immunity of culture fishes can be substantially enhanced, and immunoprotection rate to fresh water aquiculture fishes and marine culture fishes reaches to 65-71%, and (3) growth of pathogenic bacteria like escherichia coli in intestinal tract of culture fishes can be substantially restrained, growth of fish can be promoted rapidly, and weighting rate and disease resistance of culture fishes can be raised. The immunopotentiator is suitable for various of culture fishes, has a broad future, and is easy for industrialization.

The invention discloses a fresh water scale pond ecological breeding system. The system comprises five parts, namely a breeding pond, a pond water normal-position distributed treatment part, a pond discharge water abnormal-position centralized treatment part, a backwater function recovery treatment part and a pond water quality compensation treatment part. Breeding water aquatic ecology, pond breading and an aquaculture engineering technology are integrated organically; and pond microcirculation is formed through absorption, decomposition and nitrification functions of microorganisms, algae and the aquatic plants, particularly continuous removal of aquatic plants with growth and intermittent water supply, so that the utilization rate of pond eutrophic substances is improved, and breeding backwater is restored. The system has the remarkable effects of water saving and emission reduction and provides the high-efficiency pond ecological breeding system which is novel in process and is high in operability and economic and practical and has a unique structure for fishery industrialization and scale production.

The invention discloses a fish tenderness hyperspectral detection method based on a characteristic wave band. The detection method comprises the following steps of: firstly, detecting fish tenderness according to the conventional detection method; then, with fish as a sample set, utilizing a near-infrared hyperspectral imager to carry out nondestructive detection on the fish, establishing a multi-element linear regression model of the tenderness and a characteristic wavelength, detecting a fish sample, and calculating the tenderness of fish sample according to the multi-element linear regression model of the tenderness and the characteristic wavelength. The fish tenderness hyperspectral detection method provided by the invention has the advantages that the fish tenderness is rapidly detected in an optimized manner through the characteristic wave band, the time of hyperspectral collection, detection and data analysis is greatly shortened, the detection efficiency is improved, and the fish tenderness hyperspectral detection method really provides theoretical support and research basis for on-line, rapid and nondestructive detection of food quality.

The invention discloses a set of apparatus and a method for culturing Haematococcus pluvialis and converting astaxanthin in large scale. The apparatus consists of a photo-bioreactor system set on the frisket, aeration equipment, culture fluid inoculation equipment and still cell harvesting equipment. Floating or sunken pulse equipment is set on the frisket. The apparatus don't need establishment of artificial culture pool and other institution, but uses natural water body to culture Haematococcus pluvialis in large scale. It is low cost, the culture temperature, illumination and water flow rate is stable, culture fluid flows with each other, aeration is continuous, culture conditions are precedent, which make the growth and increment of Haematococcus pluvialis almost at equal pace. The growth rate of Haematococcus pluvialis can reach to 25%, biomass increase is fast, doubles 3-5 days. The photo-bioreactor can be hoisted into required depth of the water, which solves the contradiction of difference of temperature, illumination and nutrition of Haematococcus pluvialis culture and astaxanthin conversion.

The invention provides a spectacular fish feed capable of realizing the color-enhancing and brightening of spectacular fish. A plurality of natural environmentally-friendly raw materials are adopted. The feed can ensure the rapid color-enhancing and brightening of the spectacular fish, preserve colors for long and achieve the remarkable effects of not dyeing and polluting a bowl for long on the basis of providing essential nutrients required by normal physiological metabolism and growing development for the spectacular fish.

A loach fish fry artificial cultivation method is characterized by comprising spawning and hatching process, 7-day (d) fish fries cultivation and 15 d fish fries cultivation, wherein the spawning and hatching process comprises the following steps: parent fish rearing and selecting; artificial induction; fertilization process; and fertilized egg hatching process. A loach fish fry reinforced cultivation method comprises the following steps: adopting indoor flat surface slot to cultivate the 7 d fish fries and the 15 d fish fries, reinforced culturing fish fries, stocking loach fish fries to a pond after the 7 d fish loach fish fries and the 15 d fish fries grow up, and thereby greatly improving fish fry indoor cultivating survival rate and fish dries pond descending survival rate. A result of an experimental research shows that: the indoor cultivating survival rate of the 7 d fish fries reaches up to 87.8 percents, the pond descending survival rate reaches up to more than 30 percents, the 15 d fish fries reaches up to 92.6 percents, and the pond descending survival rate reaches up to more than 50 percents. The loach fish fry artificial cultivation method is scientific and rational, easy to implement, and good in practicability. By using loach fish fry artificial cultivation method, the fish dries pond descending survival rate can be greatly improved, and good economic benefit can be obtained.

The present invention broadly comprises an electronic fishing lure, including a programmable microcontroller, a digital switch to control said microcontroller, a constant current, constant voltage recharge circuit with a lithium-ion rechargeable battery, a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and an audio output device. The LEDs and audio device are connected to the microcontroller and the microcontroller activates the lights and audio device according to a software program stored in the microcontroller.

The invention relates to the technical field of aquatic product index measurement and particularly relates to an automatic measuring device and method for fish type morphological parameters. The automatic measuring device comprises a computer, a framework main body (1), a live fish flow guide groove (2) which is obliquely formed on the framework main body (1) and a photographing device which is arranged at the lower end of the live fish flow guide groove (2) and is used for photographing a fish body image; the bottom of the live fish flow guide groove (2) is a transparent platform; the photographing device comprises a bracket (4) arranged on the framework main body (1) and an industrial camera (5) which is in sliding connection with the bracket (4); the industrial camera is in signal connection with the computer; the computer comprises a parameter setting module, a calibration module, an image acquisition module, a fish body size automatic extracting module and a fish body size manual measuring module which are in signal connection in sequence. With the adoption of the device and the method, the fish type morphological parameters can be rapidly acquired in a lossless mode.

An aquatic animal morphological character damage-free rapid measuring method belongs to the technical field of aquatic animal measuring methods, which is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps: a standard graduated scale is laid beside the aquatic animal to be measured and a clear image is shot with a digital camera; the image is led into a computer image processing software to determine the ratio X between the unit length of the standard graduated scale and the correspondent image distance; correspondent frame measuring fixed points are selected on the image profile and the image distance L1 between the points measured is measured according to the measuring requirements of aquatic animal morphological characters of different types when the image size is kept unchangeable; the actual distance L0 between the points measured is calculated according to the computing formula that L0 is equal to X*L1. The measuring method realizes the rapid, accurate and damage-free measurement of the shapes of living aquatic animals, which has important meaning for improving the work efficiency of object aquatic animal morphological research and provides possibility for the measurement and tracing observation of the aquatic animal living body.

A universal, fluid transfer, Q-D coupling assembly for connecting water supply hoses to fire-fighter's wild-fire backpack tanks comprising a two or three-part combination: #1) a ⅝″ female member having an axially-slideable detent collar and an internal, spring-biased fluid shut off flap, and #2) a male nozzle/reducer/collar member having a detent engaging groove. A ball valve is connected to element #2, either integral as #2A, or as a separate assembly element #3. Both elements #2 and #3 have a female threaded collar that receives the nominal 1″ male fitting of a garden hose. The parts can be supplied as a kit. Element #2 is a unitary fitting combining a hydraulic-sized, male Q-D nozzle, a reducer section and a standard garden hose-sized, female internally-threaded fixed collar. This element is preferably supplied with an integral ball valve intermediate the reducer portion and the female collar.