Clean. Secure. Sustainable.
Impact-9 is an integrator of aquaculture farms using SeaStrut pressure-adaptive cultivation tubes. These apply across aquaculture, offering stable and proportional buoyancy control and submerging autonomously when waves are present. Our integrated grid design facilitates rapid substrate connections and innovative harvesting methods. As an independent solutions provider, we can:
- Engineer and validate your next farm design
- Supply, install farm hardware & monitor
- Support on-site operations to continuously improve.
Reduced maintenance. Safer stocks. Cleaner water.
iNNOVATIVE MARINE STRUCTURES ARE IN OUR DNA
We have seen it all before: Established offshore companies attempt to solve new offshore challenges using old solutions. But new markets need new approaches. We have worked with synthetic fibre ropes and elastomeric materials in the marine environment to solve shallow water mooring problems: to control the dynamics of structures in big waves, without it costing the earth. When we discovered what aquaculture producers wanted to do, we got stuck right in.
Low Trophic Aquaculture - Reliable, Scalable Productivity
Seaweed & Shellfish: Submersible Grids with Adaptive Control
We provide farm solutions for seaweed and shellfish producers seeking reliable, scalable and highly productive farms. SeaStrut Grids use pressure-supported tubes to spread substrates in aggressive environments. These minimise material inputs, facilitate rapid substrate connections and offer innovative harvesting methods. Autonomous buoyancy control delivers submersion for storm protection as well as depth control for growth optimisation. Grid solutions are optimised for seaweed producers seeking high productivity per area or access to more scalable offshore, energetic marine sites. Mussel production can benefit from higher flow sites, novel substrate connection solutions, attenuation of wave dynamics and buoyancy control to compensate for biomass growth. Contact us to see if we can engineer a solution for your production needs.
Salmon - a fork in the road
Salmon: Land-based containment or open ocean solutions?
Global salmon production is a $15.4 bn market, focused on sheltered water bodies in Norway, Chile and Scotland. There are efforts to double the sector’s production by 2030. Growth in conventional open net pens is becoming constrained due to increasing incidences of sea lice and disease as well as regulatory steps to restrict the number of licences in sensitive marine environments. The industry has reached a fork in the road: Does it move to costly “closed” aquaculture in controlled tanks or does it move into “open” solutions, submerged in resilient offshore environments. Or is it a combination of both? We know the latter will play a major role in future aquaculture production. A more energetic oceanic environment dilutes and dissipates bi-products as part of the natural process. Impact9’s technology heralds a new era of growth for the marine finfish sector: an environmentally sustainable and responsible protein source for the growing world population.