Non-invasive flow measurement in a fish farm
Ocean Matters uses the KATflow 200 to monitor water flow in the aquaculture facility.
Leading fish farming company successfully uses portable ultrasonic flow meter
The KATflow 200 from Katronic – a battery-powered ultrasonic flow meter – was used to monitor the water flow rate at the fish farm operated by the British company Ocean Matters. The company offers a sustainable and environmentally friendly approach to minimising the use of veterinary chemicals in salmon farming. They rear sea hares, a ‘cleaner’ species that preferentially ‘picks’ sea lice off farmed salmon and eats up to a hundred of them in a single meal. The sea hares live in harmony with the farmed salmon and significantly reduce the amount of chemicals required for their successful rearing.
At Ocean Matters’ biosecurity facility in North Wales, nothing is left to chance. The flow of water between the fish tanks and the filter systems is monitored using Katronics’ portable KATflow 200 flow meter. Simply clamped onto the PVC pipes, the measuring system can collect data at various measurement points, thereby monitoring and recording the water flow rates throughout the entire process.
Dave Jones, manager of the Ocean Matters fish farm, commented approvingly: “We were very pleased with how easy the Katronic meter was to use and with the support provided by the Katronic staff in Coventry. The key factor for us was that the device worked well with our PVC pipes, and it performed excellently.”
