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AQUACULTURE

Marine aquaculture in an offshore environment requires the use of proven technologies, based on reliable know-how. Chlamys, with its long experience of installations in numerous sites, is the ideal technological partner for the realization of your plant in a cage even at great distances from the coast, whether it is systems in floating or submersible cages.

SERVICES

• New farm siting • Applications for new concessions or enlargements • GIS mapping • Mooring studies • Hydraulic-maritime studies • Assistance in equipment selection (cages, nets, moorings, service boats, machineries) • At-sea positioning of new farms • Coordination over complex operations (grading, net substitution, fish movements) • Video and photographic assessment of cages, mooring, fish batches • Sanitary status and quality assessment of fish batches at hatchery or at farm site • Assistance to loading, delivery and unloading of fish batches

• Expertises on fish feeds choice • In-vivo assessment of feeds performances • Fish feed quality assessment • Feeding strategies • Stocking strategies • Diseases management and sanitary strategies • Fish welfare assessement • Production units managements, even with our own staff • Service boats rental, 7m, 9m, 18m • Technical staff training for mariculture units • Wild broodstock capture • Broodstock quality assessment • Broodstock tagging • Zootechnical trials • Contamination assessment along productive chains

PRODUCTS

• HDPE floating cages up to 500 mm phi
• Submersible cages up to 500 mm phi
• Rotary complete moorings
• Reticular mooring frames
• Concrete anchors
• High-holding power anchors
• Brackets in HDPE plate, 200-500 mm
• Mussel long-lines
• Feeding machines
• On-board installations

MARINE ECOLOGY

The assessment of the environmental effects connected to the operation of the production units at sea is a strong point of Chlamys technological know-how, capable of integrating farm design with the environmental assessment of the possible effects on marine communities, in a coordinated process that allows construction of systems perfectly integrated into the carrying capacity of the farming area. This favors a faster and safer acquisition process of the areas under concession, and an easier management of any disputes with other stakeholders, often paying attention to the possible environmental effects of fish farms.

SERVICES

• Sampling service at sea
• Sediment cores sampling
• Water column sampling
• Sedimentation traps
• Grab and dredge sampling
• Macrobenthos sampling
• Meiobenthos sampling
• Plankton sampling
• Underwater photography and video
• Visual Census sampling

PRODUCTS

• Faunistic lists
• Diversity indexes
• Statistical uni-multivariate processing
• Macrobenthos analysis
• Meiobenthos analysis
• Morphometric studies
• Environmental Impact Assessements (EIA)
• Appropriate Assessment (AA) for Natura 2000 sites
• Mussel watch protocol assessments
• Biomanipulation over confined water bodies
• Marine and freshwaters monitoring surveys