How do you do partial and complete harvests out of the Aquapod?
In terms of product flesh quality, stress free harvesting is the most critical factor. Harvest ease is what influenced the design of the spherical Aquapod from the beginning. Harvest is accomplished with a minimum of manpower using a fixed funnel net that empties into a fish pump, into which fish are crowded by a semicircular weighted sweep net that pivots on a central axis as the pod is slowly rotated. The fish remain very calm up to the last minutes of harvest. One advantage of this design is that it is very easy to incorporate a grading panel into the sweep net so that smaller fish can escape the harvest sweep and easily get back into the ongrowing section of the pen. Our customers have also developed clever ways to harvest with dip nets and purse nets, working on the surfaced pen.
