How listening to salmon helps feed them more efficiently
A new system aims to help salmon farming more efficient by optimizing feed
Magnus Oshaug Pedersen
Rosa Martínez/CTN
Magnus Oshaug Pedersen
Magnus Oshaug Pedersen
Hamid Er-Rachdi/Rosa Martínez/CTN
A salmon can t pick up and drop its supper dish like a dog, so how do you know if they are hungry? It s an important question in aquaculture, and by using a combination of audio sensors and artificial intelligence, the Smart System for Feeding Control (SICA) offers a new way to answer it.
Farmed salmon make up between 60 and 70 percent of all salmon produced today, but the process suffers from an efficiency problem. Like any fish, salmon need to be fed. The problem for the farmer is to make sure the growing salmon get enough food to stay healthy and put on weight, but not so much that the food is wasted or starts to have a negative impact on the local environment.
The feed cost represents about 50 percent of the costs of farming salmon. But how do we know if the salmon is hungry or still full? Researchers have rethought to find answers. The result is less wastage and pollution – and enough food for the salmon.