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New investment by Fusion Marine brings safety boost for fish farmers

Fusion Marine’s popular Aquaflex 250 range of fish farm cages for trout and smolt farmers are now available fully fitted with anti-slip safety decking that complies with all health and safety requirements.

The investment by Fusion Marine in a new injection moulding tool also means that the decking can be retro-fitted onto existing cages.

Aquaflex is widely used by fish farmers on freshwater and other sheltered sites and several operators have already opted to have the new decking fitted onto their existing cages.

The self-draining modular plastic decking is light and flexible and is secured onto the 250mm polyethylene (PE) flotation pipes by a specially developed mounting system. Once installed, the decking provides a convenient working platform that enhances operator safety.

A similar safety decking system has also been developed for Fusion Marine’s extra large Triton fish farm cages designed for rearing salmon and tuna in exposed offshore conditions.

Fusion Marine – aware of its environmental responsibilities - is also trialling the use of recycled plastic in the manufacture of its safety decking, including utilising material from redundant cages. The company is working closely with a number of fish farmers to ensure that as much of their old cage units as possible are fully recycled.

Stephen Divers, managing director, said: “The safety decking is available for our full cage range, including Oceanflex, Aquaflex and Triton, and has been developed through close consultation with the fish farming industry. Fish farmers like the fact that it can be retro-fitted onto existing cages.”