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Self-contamination of aquaculture cages in shallow water
Authors:Emmanuel?Poizot  author-information"  >  author-information__contact u-icon-before"  >  mailto:emmanuel.poizot@cnam.fr"   title="  emmanuel.poizot@cnam.fr"   itemprop="  email"   data-track="  click"   data-track-action="  Email author"   data-track-label="  "  >Email author,Romuald?Verjus,Hai?Yen?N’Guyen,Jean-Régis?Angilella,Yann?Méar
Affiliation:1.LUSAC-CNAM-Intechmer,Tourlaville,France;2.Laboratoire Protec’Som,Valognes,France;3.LUSAC-ESIX,Cherbourg-Octeville,France;4.Université de Caen Normandie,Caen Cedex 05,France
Abstract:Fish farms, which initially colonized quiet and protected natural coastal areas, are now frequently installed in open flow zones, due to the lack of space along coasts and to the emergence of new environmental constraints. For the past two decades, a salmon fish farm has been located inside the roadstead of Cherbourg (France) to benefit from both sea protection and tide currents which regularly refresh the water. In spite of these favourable environmental conditions, periods of non-negligible fish mortalities have been observed to occur without clear evidence of their origin. This motivated the turbidity measurements and the numerical simulations presented in this paper. Firstly, it is shown that high turbidities in the farm site under study are mainly due to the flow acceleration under the cages, which causes the re-suspension of sediments and bio-deposits. Secondly, particles which enter the fishnet can have different origins (external source, bottom, or the net itself). Numerical simulations, based on the Reynolds equations and on the discrete random walk model for particle dispersion, suggest that the rear area of the net can be reached by particles emerging from below the net. It is observed that turbulent dispersion is a key ingredient for such a behaviour, as it can lead particles towards a large recirculation cell behind the net. Dispersion by realistic unsteady vortices has also been analysed by means of a Lattice-Boltzmann model. Though these computations involve smaller Reynolds numbers, they confirm qualitatively the observations of the random walk model. In addition, they suggest that vortex shedding and unsteady recirculation cells near the bottom can force particles from the sand bed to be lifted up and reach the rear of the net.
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