A simulator for sustainability in marine fish farms

One of the main costs of the marine farms is the extruded feed. This paper discusses many issues given when fish, mussels, oysters or other shellfish are fed. Several published systems for sustainability are also described. Authors will propose a simulator based on underwater wireless sensors that will solve issues aforementioned giving sustainability for marine farms. Because sensors are not wired, they could be deployed widely without cable limitations. The simulator permits to design scalable systems, useful when there are many fish cages, allowing low cost maintenance. It will be compared with other simulators published by other authors. We have observed that many of them just solve some of the issues aforementioned, but not all.

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