FISH FARMING TECHNOLOGY
How ROVs are transforming aquaculture by Nido Robotics, Spain Nido Robotics’ Sibiu Pro and Sibiu Nano underwater drones are a godsend for fish farmers looking to boost their business’ productivity and safety while reducing CAPEX and OPEX. Realistically, there is no reason why aquaculture should be any different from any other line of business in the 21st century, where an incessant drive to increase productivity is intertwined with the need to impose and observe safe, environmentallyresponsible working conditions – and where all of this has to be offset against a similarly pressing requirement to slash operating and production costs. In this somewhat paradoxical context, the deployment of ROVs in aquaculture makes consistently incontestable sense, negating at a stroke the expense and potential hazards of using divers to carry out an entire range of essential processes and procedures. To begin with, before a fish farm is even established an ROV can be pre-emptively sent down so that
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