Freja Offshore, a three way partnership between Hexicon and Mainstream Renewable Energy, has entered right into a collaboration with the Norwegian firm Subfarm to allow fish farms contained in the Mareld floating offshore wind farm, proposed to be constructed within the North Sea, off the coast of Lysekil in Sweden.
The 2 corporations will work collectively on a undertaking that can take a more in-depth take a look at how electrical energy manufacturing and fisheries will be mixed, based on Freja Offshore, which submitted a planning software below the Swedish Financial Zone Act (SEZ) for the two.5 GW floating wind farm final yr.
Lysekil Municipality, the analysis institute DHI and the Norwegian industrial cluster Blue Maritime Cluster are additionally taking part within the new collaborative undertaking that goals to develop the potential of operating sustainable fish farms inside the Mareld offshore wind farm web site.
Freja Offshore says that earlier research present that offshore wind farms can act as synthetic reefs and marine protected areas, which will increase the quantity of fish and shellfish. Whereas bigger fishing vessels can’t move by way of the wind farm, there are good alternatives for fish farming, the developer says.
On the Marled offshore wind farm, the fish farms are deliberate to be positioned between the wind turbine foundations and anchored with their very own anchoring system. The fish cages will likely be lowered to a depth of fifty–70 metres and hoisted as much as the floor for checks and harvesting.
Subfarm, which has been working since 2018 on options that allow sustainable fish farming, has developed the expertise that may stand up to robust climate situations within the North Sea and relies on strategies beforehand used within the oil and gasoline business for many years. The whole system is managed from a management station on land, Freja Offshore says.
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