Development and Testing of an Aquaculture Pen Sensing System

水产养殖是指通过控制养殖鱼类、贝类、海洋植物和其他海洋动物， 淡水和盐水环境中的条件。在一般情况下，鱼类种群是在大围栏中饲养的 由多个笼子组成，每个笼子的直径大约为100米。这些笼子用网 系统悬挂在一个巨大的环形结构上以容纳鱼。在加拿大东海岸， 由于海洋条件的严峻性，鱼类生产作业面临着特殊的挑战。目前， 在强风暴事件中，笼经受显著的变形和载荷。在某些情况下， 锚定围栏的线和连接各个笼子的连接线已经断裂。拟议工作 旨在开发和测试一种传感系统，该系统可以确定系泊和连接线中的载荷。 关于线负载的准确的时间索引数据对于具有以下特征的围栏结构的经济的重新设计是至关重要的： 更有弹性的基础设施。

Aquaculture is the farming of fish, shellfish, marine plants, and other marine animals through controlled conditions in freshwater and saltwater environments. In the general case, fish stocks are reared in large pens consisting of numerous cages each approximately on the order of 100 m in diameter. These cages use netting systems hung from a large ring structure to contain the fish. On the east coast of Canada, aquaculture operations for fish production face particular challenges due to the severity of the ocean conditions. Currently, in strong storm events the cages experience significant deformations and loads. In some cases, the mooring lines anchoring the pen and the connection lines attached individual cages have broken. The proposed work aims to develop and test a sensing system which can determine the loads in the mooring and connection lines. Accurate, time-indexed data on the line loads is critical for economical redesign of the pen structure with the goal of more resilient infrastructure.