Principles and practices of cage mooring

Ignatius, Boby (2009) Principles and practices of cage mooring. In: Course manual: National training on cage culture of seabass. CMFRI & NFDB, Kochi, pp. 33-37.

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    Abstract

    Moorings are required to hold cages against the forces generated by wind, currents and waves and to allow the fish stocks and the cages and let the best chance of survival. In sheltered waters, requirements to moor a cage safely were minimal. This has changed dramatically with moves into coastal waters, and a potentially much higher wave climate. Mooring failures were common place in the early days of coastal farming, but a better understanding of the problems, and more sophisticated analysis has largely reduced these risks. Perhaps the most important point is to view the cage group, its nets and moorings, as a single system, whose components are mechanically linked. Their dynamic responses cannot be considered in isolation, each component affecting the other. Cage and mooring design is “site specific”, and careful and combined choice of cage type, nets and most specifically moorings, has a considerable bearing on the ability of fish stocks to survive in major storms, on exposed sites.

    Item Type: Book Section
    Uncontrolled Keywords: cage mooring; cage culture
    Subjects: Aquaculture > Mariculture
    Aquaculture
    Aquaculture > Cage culture
    Divisions: CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI > CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
    CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
    Subject Area > CMFRI-Kochi > Mariculture Division
    Depositing User: Mr. Arun Surendran
    Date Deposited: 08 Nov 2010 04:24
    Last Modified: 09 Sep 2015 15:36
    URI: http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/id/eprint/6059

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