360FishSweep – the world’s most efficient fish handling equipment

Developed in collaboration with SalMar Farming and Lerøy Aurora.

360FishSweep – the world’s most efficient fish handling equipment.

Developed in collaboration with SalMar Farming and Lerøy Aurora.

Our products

360FishSweep

The patented 360FishSweep fish handling equipment has been developed in collaboration with SalMar Farming and Lerøy Aurora to extract cleaner fish and wrasse in a highly efficient, predictable and gentle way. In less than a year, our system has removed more than 1 million lumpfish and many thousands of salmon that have suffered from disease or injuries.

We say 360FishSweep is the world’s most efficient fish handling equipment. With a very high depletion rate, minimal wear and tear on the crew and efficient operations, we are confident in this claim.

There are over 70 sites in Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Scotland actively using 360FishSweep. Feel free to contact us for references from customers who have become well acquainted with the system and actively use it.

Dip net for lifting fish with water support

Development projects

LiceSweep – next-generation lice prevention

With support from Innovation Norway, the company has initiated research projects to develop a new preventive method for lice infestation. The project is called LiceSweep and is based on filtering out lice larvae in the surface of the pen along the net wall. Here in the fjord zone, both feed residues, garbage, seaweed, and kelp accumulate, but also a variety of planktonic organisms – including nauplii and copepodites.

LiceSweep is patented and in the fall of 2023 the system will undergo a 4-month biological verification process in collaboration with Salaks AS in Sør-Troms.

The project aims to uncover the amount of filtered lice (DNA analysis, NINA), how lice levels in the test pen are affected compared to reference pens and how light attraction to zoo-plankton can help remove as many free-swimming organisms as possible in the pen.

Secondarily, the project will assess growth/appetite and fish health, as well as environmental parameters as a result of cleaner water in the pen. The system will also be able to remove poisonous jellyfish such as the Apolemia uvaria and similar species. The system will also be able to remove poisonous jellyfish such as the Apolemia uvaria and similar species.

Vøatec

About us

Vøatec AS is a startup company for the aquaculture industry and was established in 2020 with the aim of developing new and improved solutions, particularly concerning pen environment, biology, and fish handling. We believe that research projects and innovation are necessary for the industry to continue with open-pen farming.

Based in Finnsnes, Troms, in Norway, the company manufactures most of its products locally and has customers all along the Norwegian coast.

Sustainability, fish health and safe work operations are important values for the company.

Behind the company are people with extensive experience in the industry: Odd-Arne Korneliussen, Torje Johannessen and Stefan Paulsen.

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