Engineering Research Needs for Off-Shore Mariculture Systems

海水养殖作业必须延伸到更远的海域，以实现更大的水循环量，以稀释养鱼场的冲洗液。在实现这些发展的过程中，人们面临着巨大的工程挑战。在这些挑战中，突出的是实现基础设施的适航性，即品种(围栏、笼子等)的遏制系统，改进近海设施中的建筑材料，主要是为了减少污垢；以及限制或保留方法的适应性，以适应品种的生物学要求。这个工程研讨会的重点是解决这些问题的研究需要，并将邀请来自以下国家的国际知名工程师和海洋科学家：日本、法国、加拿大和挪威。这些国家有广泛的联邦和私营部门的近海水产养殖研究和发展计划。关于近海海水养殖工程方法的信息交流有助于更清楚地界定工程问题所在，以及应如何制定和组织研究活动以克服这些问题。

Mariculture operations must extend farther out to sea to achieve greater water circulation volumes to dilute fish farm washes. In realizing such developments, one faces substantial engineering challenges. Prominent among these challenges are achieving the seaworthiness of the infrastructure, i.e., the containment system for the cultivars (pens, cages, and so forth), the improvement of construction materials in off-shore installations, primarily for the reduction of fouling; and the adaptation of containment or retention methods to the biological exigencies of the cultivars. This engineering workshop focuses on the research needs to solve these problems and will invite internationally-known engineers and marine scientists from the following countries: Japan, France, Canada, and Norway. These countries have extensive federal and private sector off- shore mariculture research and development programs. Exchange of information on engineering approaches to off- shore mariculture promises a clearer definition of where engineering problems lie and how research activities should be formulated and organized to overcome these problems.