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7587991 |
Support device for the cultivation of macro organisms in marine waters
A support device for cultivating macro organisms in marine waters consisting of first and second coplanar rings connected to each other by a plurality of radial support lines and provided between...
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7222047 |
System and method for monitoring and controlling an aquatic environment
A system and method for monitoring and controlling an aquatic environment thus regulating the aquatic environment and maximizing the stability of the aquatic ecosystem. This system uses sensor and...
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7144196 |
Biologically-dominated artificial reef
An apparatus and method of reducing the effects of hydrodynamic forces of waves and water currents in coastal environments (e.g., oceans, and coastal, river, lake, and reservoir banks). The...
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7114461 |
Method for raising aquatic animals
A method of culturing aquatic animals utilizes a habitat including at least one habitat unit, each habitat unit being constructed of a plurality of concentric tubes with a fixed radial spacing. The...
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6953006 |
System and method for clam farming
A system and method for clam farming includes a supply ship coupled to a clam planter via a supply tube bundle having a plurality of individual tubes. The supply ship has a separation station...
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6892672 |
Apparatus for breeding fish in open sea
Fish-breeding apparatus ( 10 ), which comprises a frame, supporting one or a plurality of breeding cages ( 11 ) and provided with hollow buoyancy elements ( 17 ), and at least one device for...
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6582612 |
Plankton mitigation system
A method of mitigating plankton from fish pens moves denser cleaning water from a selected depth into the pen and discharges it to flow horizontally across the pen, but with a downward component...
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6539894 |
Aquaculture farm system and method
An aquaculture system for cultivation, containment and rearing of various mollusks, particularly abalone, which includes a habitat which supports a plurality of molded panels including openings for...
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6520116 |
Method and apparatus for supporting aquacultured mussels
A support apparatus adapted to support mussels in an aquatic mussel harvesting operation. The apparatus has a support extension that is adapted to be inserted into a harvesting support that is...
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6230646 |
Deep ocean, mid-water farming apparatus
A deep ocean, mid-water farming apparatus, for propagating bi-valves, kelp and sea weed comprising a plurality of air-containing tanks arranged in a frame and including a lower frame element and an...
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6223689 |
Nelson trawlers aquaculture unit
An aquaculture system for allowing live seafood such as clam seeds to grow on a floatation raft which can be positioned in water dock spaces of a marina. A first embodiment allows for an air source...
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6119630 |
Installation for in situ monitoring the quality of habitat of aquatic organisms
An installation for in situ monitoring the quality of a habitat of aquatic organisms with minimal disturbance to the aquatic organisms. In a first aspect of the present invention, the monitoring...
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6089191 |
Marine habitat systems
A family of man-made marine habitat systems and methods are disclosed for placement in various waterways to restore the natural marine environments that have been previously destroyed by commercial...
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6024050 |
Shellfish aquaculture upwellers and systems
A shellfish aquaculture upweller system utilizes one or more upwellers having a volume-defining silo, a selectively removable exhaust port and a selectively removable and liquid permeable assembly....
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5884585 |
Underwater high relief fence habitat
A fence-like habitat for sheltering and feeding fish, and practicing aquaculture. The fence serves as a shield for small and juvenile fish which seek protection from predators and water movement....
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5785002 |
Submersible breeding structure
A submersible structure for breeding piscicultural species in any aquatic environment that includes at least one frame member shaped and devised to accommodate a plurality of bunches of fibers. A...
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5769027 |
Aquaculture container and construction
An aquaculture container for raising shellfish is formed of a homogeneous, monolithic monocoque shell by forming one or more openings therein and installing screen, net, or mesh over the...
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5628280 |
Oyster cleansing/purification array
An oyster and other molluscan cleansing system suitable for purifying, or promoting the growout of, for example, oysters, clams, mussels, or the like. The preferred embodiment of the present...
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5511514 |
Method of cultivating shellfish
The invention relates to the cultivation of shellfish. A first type of shellfish capable of securing themselves to a cultch such as by producing byssus are seeded onto a culture rope together with...
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5443682 |
Securing objects such as scallops to a backing material
Selected objects such as scallops, are automatically secured in spaced apart bottom-to-bottom relation to elongated strips for subsequent suspension in sea water for a final grow-out period. Linear...
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4996943 |
Process for preparing cultch for mollusca
This application describes a process for the production of a growth medium or cultch for mollusca, particularly oysters, comprising contacting preformed cultch made from coal ash wastes with larvae...
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4950104 |
Artificial substrates for marine biomass enhancement and wave energy absorption
Artificial substrates for use in open sea enhancing biomass and/or absorbing wave energy, improved by means of particular dispositions and devices concerning their number, mooring, flotation, and...
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4844015 |
Artificial oyster cultch
Described is an oyster cultch made from coal-ash wastes substantially as effective as the natural oyster-shell cultch.
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4788937 |
Oyster bed fostering
The method of fostering shellfish beds, particularly oyster beds, by distributing chunks of rubber or rubber chips on the bottom of a body of water. The chunks of rubber or rubber chips may be...
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4508057 |
Algal culturing reef unit, artificial reef unit and artificial culturing and fishing field unit
An artificial algal culturing reef unit, an artificial reef unit and an artificial culturing and fishing area unit, aimed at raising or culturing algae, fishes and shellfishes, are usually...
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4438725 |
Method of growing molluscs
Method of growing molluscs, such as oysters, which comprises inducing larvae to settle on small particles of cultch and subsequently maintaining the particles of cultch with spat attached in...
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4348983 |
Method for inducing set in planktonic bivalves
A method for inducing the setting of planktonic bivalves onto a substrate is disclosed. Planktonic bivalves, which have reached the competent pediveliger stage, are exposed to certain...
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4270488 |
System and apparatus for cultivating and harvesting oysters
A shell fish cultivating and harvesting system utilizes a cultivating apparatus from which oyster cultch is suspended and which is equipped with pontoons having fore and aft compartments that are...
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4182270 |
Abalone habitat
An abalone habitat comprising a container and a plurality of non-circumscribing panels in the container to which the abalone can attach. The container is porous to allow sea water to enter the...
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4177759 |
Apparatus and method for collecting oysters
A method and a device for collecting oyster broods utilizing a collecting grill with the following features: (a) a rectangular frame onto which are attached a series of parallel bars, (b) a series...
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4052961 |
Apparatus for planting seed oysters
An apparatus for uniformly distributing seed oysters over a previously prepared seed bed, comprising a shallow draft vessel having a V-shaped hold, a channel in the lower portion of the hold...
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3853095 |
ARTIFICIAL CULTCH FOR OYSTERS
Artificial oyster cultch for use in assembly of similar cultches providing large spat collecting surface area for given volume. Cultch has base with bore and grid of intersecting ridges on at least...
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3824957 |
SPAT COLLECTOR
Spat collector which comprises a plurality of stackable plates made of a semi-rigid material, each of which plates comprises a series of strips disposed in the form of a louver and is provided with...
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3738318 |
ARTIFICIAL CLUTCH FOR GROWING OYSTERS
An artificial clutch apparatus for growing oysters on is provided which has a concrete base for holding the clutch beneath the water in an upright position and has a center rod embedded in the...
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3701338 |
OYSTER SETTING METHOD AND APPARATUS
Oyster shells are fed in bulk from a storage hopper and allowed to free-fall into a setting tank containing liquid and free-swimming oyster larvae. The shells land on their convex side on a moving...
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3695229 |
CELL ASSEMBLY
A unitary cell assembly comprises a plurality of regular, six sided, rectilinear and contiguous hollow cells, each cell having an opening at each vertex thereof, the openings of adjacent cells...
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3685490 |
OYSTER CULTCH AND ASSEMBLY JIG
A clutch for growing oysters comprising a plurality of rings connected together at a central point. The rings have surfaces suitable for the attachment of oyster spat. An assembly jig is utilized...
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3678900 |
PROCESS AND CULTCH FOR CULTIVATING AND HARVESTING SHELLFISH
A process for cultivating and harvesting shellfish, particularly oysters, wherein a continuous, permanent cultch is progressively formed by inserting one ring through another to provide a series of...
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3675626 |
METHOD FOR GROWING OYSTERS
A method of growing oysters on annular rings by first placing and vertically suspending the rings on a horizontal support in an oyster seed growing marine habitat, than suspending the rings...
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3656458 |
MOLLUSC CLIP
A clip for securing clutch material for the intensive farming or raft culture of sessile molluscs such as the oyster. The clip provides an opening for receiving and holding the clutch material. The...
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3556052 |
METHOD AND MEANS FOR GROWING OYSTERS
An oyster cultch made of plastic, stiff wire, or any other suitable material, in which crossed arms are provided which are coated with a material which repels the oyster spats. The outer ends of...
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3552357 |
ARTIFICIAL OYSTER CLUTCH AND METHOD OF PRODUCING SAME
A composition for artificial oyster cultches made up of a compressed mixture of hydraulic cement, lime, an antislime lubricant, gypsum, and a fibre binding material, said compressed mixture being...
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3495573 |
METHOD OF GROWING OYSTERS
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3455278 |
METHOD OF OYSTER CULTURE AND GEAR THEREFOR
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3430607 |
METHOD OF GROWING OYSTERS BY USING A PARTICULATE GYPSUM OYSTER BED COVERING
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3347210 |
Support for growing oysters
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3316881 |
Artificial oyster cultch
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3294062 |
Method and apparatus for cultivating oysters
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3294061 |
Apparatus for growing oysters from spat
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3029785 |
Device for collecting oyster seed
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