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Cage Mooring Systems

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Title Cage Mooring Systems
 
Creator Ignatius, Boby
 
Subject Cage culture
Mariculture
 
Description Moorings are required to keep the cages in a fixed position and to reduce the transfer of excessive forces
generated by wind, currents and waves to cages. In well protected bays and seawater sites and freshwater
sites, the forces of exerted by environmental factors are reduced, small mooring system can used. Open sea
cages where cages are exposed to greater environmental forces require more effective mooring systems.
Mooring depends on the type of cage, how exposed the sites are exposed to weather, and the requirement for
positional precision. 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. 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.
 
Publisher Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute
 
Date 2015
 
Type Teaching Resource
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format text
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://eprints.cmfri.org.in/10698/1/39.%20Boby.pdf
Ignatius, Boby (2015) Cage Mooring Systems. [Teaching Resource]