When you need to ask – Askvik
AYOUNG company with bags of commercial and aquacultural experience - that’s Askvik Aqua. Based in Hjelmeland, Norway, and founded in 2015, the management team total more than 100 years of aquaculture experience. They include chairman Nils Viga (33 years), senior technician Per Hausken (25 years), R&D/technical manager Rune Eritzland (12 years), and managing director Steffen Kildal, with more than 18 years in aquaculture under his belt.
The company involves itself in all aspects of aquaculture, including self-developed technology, aimed at improving critical aquaculture processes.
discharge water.
Full scale, third party tests (by Fromas Fiskehelse) in 2017 and 2018 have opment stages.
Askvik is working on two new systems with Pure Shipping and Flatsetsund Engineering, to be installed this month.
Further success has been reported by client Bremnes Seashore, with a Thermolicers.
Delousing on the Bremnes vessel, the Eva Elisabeth, with the Thermolicer, immobilised or killed 100 per cent of lice in the discharge water.
‘It has taken a year to develop the electro full-scale plant, and the product is basically fully developed and ready for market,’ said Kildal, who was at Aviemore with representatives from Pure Shipping and FLS..
‘We have very good results in killing lice and fatally damaging egg strings,’ he added.
Bremnes in July 2017 and Kildal says that having a professional partner in the aquaculture industry had been invaluable to the development process.
‘We sourced from south-west Norway, fresh lice in various stages, for use in the tests, and we components and management.
‘There is also a repeat effect on eggs in egg
strings so that larvae die after hatching.The electro-pulse damages the eggs even when they are packed together.’
a large capacity, but it can be easily adapted on barges and other vessels.’
and works with water supply in closed systems.
tems were installed for all four intake pipes for its closed system, and two deliveries are due as part of the new Askvik projects in quarters two and three this year.
And no copepod infestations have registered
Other innovative technologies the company are working on include:
The Fish Stop 400
With a pulse generator and a strategically placed electrode gate, it means accidents during sorting, land facilities.
The Askvik Fish Cleaner
A treatment pool solution now under develop- ment by Askvik Aqua, this is a high capacity electro technical delicing system, with a projected kick off for the project reduced.
It is a fast and affordable method to wipe salmon free of the water 100 per cent parasite free, the company says.
effect compared to existing solutions of between 70-95 per cent.
Askvik Aqua thinks it is more than playing its part in the race for innovation, and working with Eidsfjord Sjofarm, and in cooperation with Rolls-Royce,Akva Group, and Sterner, Askvik has its own vision of the future and has applied for four development licences as Forza Askvik. It describes its concept as ‘the open pen risk, reduced risk of operator injury, reduced use of heavy machinery, and reduced overall costs’.
“The electro-pulse damages the eggs together” even when they are packed