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Smart aquaculture makes fishery more efficient

CHINA
Monday, April 24, 2023, 07:00 (GMT + 9)

A set of smart breeding system can monitor the pH value of seawater, dissolved oxygen and other indicators in real time; a mobile phone can check the activity status of fish schools at 360 degrees; only a few people can breed hundreds of tons of large yellow croakers. Nowadays, no Few places rely on digital smart equipment to innovate aquaculture models, making fisheries more and more intelligent.

The development of smart fishery is very important to promote the transformation and upgrading of fishery. In 2022, my country's aquatic product output will reach 68.69 million tons. Among them, the output of aquaculture products was 55.68 million tons, accounting for more than 80%. Traditional aquaculture is highly dependent on manpower and experience, and there are problems such as relying on the weather and difficult to control risks. It needs to rely on new technologies, especially intelligent technologies, to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Source: WIKI / FIS

Promoting smart aquaculture is not a simple application of smart technology in a certain link, but to realize the intelligence of the fishery production process. For example, on the intelligent platform of "Dinghai Bay No. 1", a deep-sea breeding platform in Lianjiang County, Fujian Province, data such as pH value and salinity of seawater can be seen in real time, and the growth status of fish can be seen at a glance. "Dinghai Bay No. 1" has a total length of 60.9 meters, a width of 32 meters, and a breeding water body of 15,800 cubic meters, which can withstand typhoons of level 15. Press the button, you can perform operations such as feeding and cleaning nets. According to the relevant person in charge of the Lianjiang County Ocean and Fishery Bureau's Hydrotechnical Station, taking large yellow croaker as an example, the unit output of deep-sea aquaculture platforms is five times that of traditional aquaculture, and the unit output value is 10 times that of traditional aquaculture methods. No matter in terms of production management, decision-making sales or economic benefits, smart fishery has advantages that traditional fishery cannot match.

Dinghaiwan No. 1. Source: SOHU

The empowerment of information technology can not only significantly improve the ability and level of fishery production and fishery management decision-making, but also give fishery development a greater room for imagination. Through the smart breeding system, remote consultation of fish diseases can be realized, and even a fish disease prevention and control network can be built. Some smart breeding systems also collect transaction information such as market prices, making the decision-making process from breeding to sales more scientific. In addition, smart fishery can also develop in conjunction with agricultural (fishing) village e-commerce, agricultural information services, and agricultural leisure tourism. In fact, aquaculture in some places has begun to integrate deeply with e-commerce, providing one-stop services from breeding, processing to sales.

In the long run, smart fishery has considerable benefits and broad prospects for development. However, there are still some practical problems that need to be solved. For example, deep-sea aquaculture platforms have invested heavily, and the initial investment of "Dinghai Bay No. 1" reached tens of millions of yuan. Relying solely on farmers, breeding enterprises, and professional cooperatives is obviously difficult to afford. Auxiliary functions such as water quality monitoring, environmental monitoring, and automatic bait feeding provided by small-scale intelligent aquaculture equipment have no obvious effect on increasing farming benefits, and fishermen are not highly motivated to invest. Further increase the policy support for digital intelligent farming equipment, and explore the establishment of a cost-sharing mechanism, so that the road to the development of intelligent fishery will become wider and wider.

Source: SOHU / LJXWW / FIS

Promoting smart aquaculture and promoting the transformation of traditional fishery is an inevitable requirement for the high-quality development of fishery. Due to the continuous improvement of ecological environment protection requirements, the traditional breeding mode is facing many challenges. At the same time, information technologies such as 5G, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things are developing rapidly, and the aquaculture industry should actively follow this trend. Continuing to empower aquaculture with science and technology and improve the quality and efficiency of fishery development will definitely push the level of fishery modernization to a new level and allow more aquaculture practitioners and enterprises to benefit from technological progress.

Source: China Fisheries Association (traslated from the original in Chinesse)

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