• Login
    About WHOAS
    View Item 
    •   WHOAS Home
    • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    • Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (AOP&E)
    • View Item
    •   WHOAS Home
    • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
    • Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (AOP&E)
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    Browse

    All of WHOASCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesKeywordsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesKeywords

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Statistics

    View Usage Statistics

    Deployment of the northern fish cage and mooring, University of New Hampshire — Open Ocean Aquaculture Program summer 2000

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    WHOI-2001-01.pdf (8.477Mb)
    Date
    2000-09
    Author
    Irish, James D.  Concept link
    Paul, Walter  Concept link
    Ostrom, William M.  Concept link
    Chambers, Michael  Concept link
    Fredriksson, David W.  Concept link
    Stommel, Matt  Concept link
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Citable URI
    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/18
    Location
    Isle of Shoals
    DOI
    10.1575/1912/18
    Keyword
     Aquaculture; Mooring; Fish cage 
    Abstract
    The University of New Hampshire - Open Ocean Aquaculture (UNH-OOA) program has worked for the past few years on developing the technology to deploy and maintain fish cages in open, exposed northern waters. In June 1999, two Sea Station octagonal net cages by Ocean Spar Technologies were deployed with their UNH designed and constructed moorings. In June 2000 the Northern Cage and its mooring were retrieved, examined and repaired , and readied for redeployment. This was a complex operation, initiated by a team of UNH ocean engineers lead by Dr. Barbaros Celikkol. This year's effort was expanded with the addition of a Program Manager (Michael Chambers), the Fishing Vessel Nobska, and researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). During the week of 21 to 25 August 2000, the cage and mooring were assembled and deployed at the UNH-OOA site seven miles offshore the New Hampshire coast, south of the Isle of Shoals. This collaborative effort involved members of the UNH Mechanical Engineering Dept., UNH divers, members of the WHOI Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering Dept. and the Captain and crew of the FV Nobska. Ship support for the deployment was provided by the R/V Gulf Challenger and Galen J. (UNH) and the FV Nobska (a 100 foot fishing vessel based at Woods Hole, MA). The work was favored by light wind and sea conditions. The endeavor resulted in the successful placement of the North Cage and its complex mooring system with load cells and environmental sensors. Unexpected and unexplained tangling of the mooring system, in particular near its grid corner points, was encountered and corrected.
    Collections
    • Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (AOP&E)
    • WHOI Technical Reports
    Suggested Citation
    Irish, J. D., Paul, W., Ostrom, W. M., Chambers, M., Fredriksson, D., & Stommel, M. (2000). Deployment of the northern fish cage and mooring, University of New Hampshire - Open Ocean Aquaculture Program summer 2000. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/18
     

    Related items

    Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.

    • Thumbnail

      VOA3R : Virtual Open Access Agriculture & Aquaculture Repository : sharing scientific and scholarly research related to agriculture, aquaculture & environment 

      Goovaerts, Marc (IAMSLIC, 2012)
    • Thumbnail

      Economic sustainability of marine aquaculture : a report to the Marine Aquaculture Task Force 

      Hoagland, Porter; Kite-Powell, Hauke L.; Jin, Di; Schumacher, Mary E.; Katz, Laure S.; Klinger, Dane (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2007-02)
      In the future, marine aquaculture production is likely to expand significantly in the United States and abroad. This paper deals with the present and future economic sustainability of aquaculture in the United States ...
    • Thumbnail

      Sources for aquaculture information in the United States. 

      Brownlow, Judith (IAMSLIC, 1986)
    All Items in WHOAS are protected by original copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. WHOAS also supports the use of the Creative Commons licenses for original content.
    A service of the MBLWHOI Library | About WHOAS
    Contact Us | Send Feedback | Privacy Policy
    Core Trust Logo