The use of a water mass curtain to control fish behavior for marine ranching

✍ Scribed by Chokei Itosu; Makoto Nakamura; Yuichi Chiba; Shinya Otake

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 281 KB
• Volume: 25
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-8018
• DOI: 10.1016/s0029-8018(97)00024-3

✦ Synopsis

A practical method is described of initiating a water mass curtain (a jet flow of water partitioning another body of water) to be used to control fish movements, along with its theoretical analysis. In this paper, equations to evaluate the change of density and upward flow rates in a water curtain due to entrainment are presented, and the accuracy of the equations is verified experimentally. The discontinuity of the density on the boundary between jet and ambient fluid was assumed in the analysis, since our experiments showed that the instantaneous density distribution was discontinuous. The equations are much simpler than the conventional formulae deduced by assuming a Gaussian curve, and are amenable to practical usage. The control efficiency of the water curtain is very good for young red sea bream.