Agriculture, forestry and fisheries / Salmon farming
Mowi: AI remote feeding
- Company
- Mowi
- Country
- Norway
- Adoption stage
- Adoption announced
- Source published
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The work problem
Mowi Chile faced days on end when bad weather kept crews out of the farm sites. That affected production, and it also meant the fish went unfed. Stress rose as a result and their behaviour changed.
Technology and data
Mowi is building a remote feeding system with technology brought over from its Norwegian head office. From a control room in Chonchi on Chiloé it watches production in the Aysén and Los Lagos regions. The control room covers 160 square metres and holds 14 workstations. From there it checks environmental variables and fish behaviour at 30 farm sites in real time and adjusts how much feed is delivered and when. The technology set includes drones for monitoring and environmental observation, observation stations, smart lighting for photoperiod control, net cleaning robots, multipurpose cameras for biomass estimation and animal welfare assessment, artificial intelligence image processors and high-efficiency pontoons. The company described this as part of its Smart Farming 4.0 strategy.
Results
Mowi said it will be the first in the Chilean aquaculture industry to equip every farm site with an artificial intelligence based remote feeding system. The scope is 100 percent of its Chilean sites. The aim is to match feed delivery to conditions while watching the environment and fish behaviour in real time, and so reduce wasted feed.
Limits and open questions
The source gives no figures for feed efficiency or reduction in waste. The date the rollout completes is not given either.
Sources
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