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Fish raising

US4030450A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 3, 1975
Grant dateJun 21, 1977
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Expiry dateJul 3, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY02A40/81
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Raising food fish utilizing apparatus including a fish tank, a biological trickling filter mounted above it and a particulate filter above the trickling filter, by recirculating water from the fish tank first through the particulate filter to remove particulate matter and adjust pH of the water and refrigerate it and then through the trickling filter to remove ammonia and add oxygen, the water in the fish tank being circulated and the fish periodically being fed over a period of months until they reach marketable size.

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