How our water tanks maximise safety for fish and man
Fish farming, also known as pisciculture, is one of the world’s fastest growing food sectors. It is a type of aquaculture, which involves breeding fish, shellfish or algae cultivation primarily for commercial purposes. However, it is also more and more cultivated for private use. While fish farming traditionally occurs in fish ponds or at sea, land-based farms are becoming increasingly popular. NPI steel water tanks have proven to serve perfectly in these land-based fish farms.
The advantages of fish farming in steel water tanks
Steel water tanks offer numerous advantages in fish farming:
- High control over water quality and parameters
- The flow pattern and circulation is better in circular tanks
- Climate resilience
- Modular design: easy to transport, to install, to move and allows for scalability
- Less waste of water and nutrition thanks to the closed system
- Feeding and harvesting operations require less time and labour
- High capacity on small area
- Low maintenance cost
- Long lifetime
- Safety for fish and man!
Safety for fish and man
We conclude this enumeration with safety, which is a very important aspect in fish farming and steel water tanks. Fish farming concerns the cultivation of consumable goods and involves creatures. Moreover, fish farms are facilities that employ multiple people, often in close proximity to the tanks. Safety of the fish farming tanks is therefore an important aspect on multiple levels. We will tell you more about it!
Safety aspects of our steel water tanks
- Our lining material is suitable for contact with consumables
The liners are made of food grade materials so liners don’t give substances to water or creature. - Providing excellent working height
We produce our water tanks to measure, offering a wide variety of heights and diameters. This means that we can produce water tanks at excellent working heights. For every facility and type fish, we have a suitable size. Offering customised solutions, we think of the safety for fish and man. - Durable coating of the metal panels
Our water tanks have an excellent lifetime expectancy but to extend lifetime even more, the bottom rings or even multiple rings of metal panels can be powder coated. This optimally protects the metal. - Possibility to increase the metal thickness
The maximum thickness of our metal panels goes up to 1 mm. This makes that our water can well withstand weather extremes. - Possibility to overlap the liner over the edge
In fish farming there uses to be a great deal of work activity and splash water around the water tanks. When desired, the liner can overlap the edges to give the steel extra protection.
- Certified tanks and designed minimum 40% stronger than required for water storage
All our water storage tanks are certified and designed minimum 40% stronger than required for the storage of water, which is absolutely essential in aquaculture.
These features of our water tanks ensure the safety of fish and man as much as possible. It contributes to the production of fish farming operations, fish welfare and product quality.
