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Leif Roger Gjelseth

Karl-Johan Mork

Jan Petter Urke

A water and seafood flow distributor () for routing flowable mass from a first location to a selected one of a second plurality of locations. The distributor () has a first pipe () and a second bent pipe (), which are in communication with one another at a first end (') via a mass mover. The second bent pipe (′) is rotatable about the first end () to displace a second end () along a circle (). A first conduit () is in communication with the first location, and a plurality of second conduits (′) are in communication with a respective one of the second plurality of locations, and the ends of the conduits are arranged along a circle (′) described by the second end () of the second bent pipe (). The first and second conduits can be fluidly connected through the first and second pipes.

Water and seafood flow distributor

A method of moving farmed aquatic animals from a tank containing the animals, the tank having a tank outlet and a conveyance pipe, the conveyance pipe having a conveyance pipe inlet connected to the tank outlet and a conveyance pipe outlet at an outlet elevation higher than the tank outlet, the method comprising: (i) by means of a water inflow into the tank, maintaining a water level in the tank at a level above the outlet elevation to generate a flow of water from the tank through the conveyance pipe while positioning a moveable water-permeable screen inside the tank to crowd the animals towards the tank outlet, (ii) by means of the flow of water therethrough, moving animals through the conveyance pipe.

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Bølandet, Norway

Leif Roger Gjelseth