Development of boat-borne feeding machine for shrimps

Abstract:

In order to solve the problem of high labor intensity of manual feeding in shrimp aquaculture, a kind of automatic ship-borne feeding machine was developed in this study. It was designed that the ship-borne feeding machine was driven by batteries which feed shrimps around the pond led by a guiding device. The hull adopts a structure of catamaran, with a propeller as the propelling plant. The guiding device around the pond is composed of a hauling cable passing through guiding bracket fixed on the shore. The height can be adjusted by manual operation, thus the feeding vessel can be up and down with the water level, so as to guarantee the hull can be in touch with the hauling cable. This equipment can feed easily with simple operation, in accordance with the design concept of a feeding machine.