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FEEDING SYSTEMS
FOR FRY AND FINGERLINGS
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by FishFarmFeeder, Spain
ishFarmFeeder (FFF), is a Spanish Company that specialises in manufacturing Aquaculture Feeding Systems, and supplying automatic feeders to the global market. With headquarters based in the main aquaculture production region of Spain and an established international distributor network, FFF knows first-hand the threats and challenges aquaculture farmers face today, mainly related to feed externalities.
Hatchery Central Feeder
FFF developed the first central feeder for hatcheries, a solution which aims to respond to the aquaculture sector’s needs by improving hatcheries’ success, through implementing automatic feeders with micro diets between 150- 500 μm of grain size. Hatchery feeders manage, monitor and control the feeding process based on different parameters (dissolved oxygen, temperature, etc.) and operate with high precision instead of the current artisanal and manual feeding process used for fingerlings. The hatchery feeder is supported by fully programmable software with learning ability from species-specific feeding regimens generating a continuous improvement of feeding protocols. The system is provided with the ability to make decisions based on both the interpretation of insitu rearing parameters and accumulated experience. The hatchery feeder helps reduce direct feed costs, while diversifying the farmed species due to their low profitability associated with their early feeding stages.
Objectives
Hatchery feeder covers the following objectives: • To optimise fingerling stocks viability by reducing direct feed purchases; • To decrease a fish hatcheries’ production costs through automation reducing mortality and deformity rates; ADVANTAGES OF FISHFARMFEDER HATCHERY FEEDER Feed savings
The straightaway consequences of Hatchery Feeder is a Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR) optimisation for any farmed species and feed savings.
Faster growth
The standardised feeding protocols and the selection of the proper feedstuff, based in high content of protein and omega-3 and omega-6, will allow the fish a higher growth rates.
Feed and fish traceability
Hatchery feeder software covers those daily management processes that take place within the normal fish-farm activity and its easy integration with other processes and systems such as warehousing, health management, human resources, finance and controlling, quality system, maintenance, measurement, processing and sales.
Improved fish welfare
By diminishing the cross-contamination risk, the mortality rates decreases while helps to maintain the optimum intank physiochemical conditions, that is directly translated in better selling prices for farmed fish batches.
Amortization <3 years
Our prices policy will allow us to reach hatcheries of many sizes for whose we have estimated savings from direct feed purchasing
Low O&M costs Labour savings
The operational and maintenance costs of smartFEEsh plants are very friendly, especially for fish farmers often used to follow their own machinery. Automation and technicalisation will save labour cost, by on-line controlling the feeding regimes of every single fish batch, depending on their growth needs.