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– Aquaticode, the developer of an AI-powered fish sorting system, has gained contracts with Australis and AquaChile for its technology.
According to Aquaticode, its new agreements bring it to a total sorting level of 60 million fish across both companies. Its software, SORTpro, is an AI-powered gender-sorting system for salmon that has already been through trial runs at salmon farms and received a USD 6 million (EUR 5.2 million) investment in 2022 to expand its development.
Aquaticode said Australis had already been using gender sorting to improve results at its farm, but since it implemented SORTPro, the company has seen gains at its farm due to lower mortality rates.
“Aquaticode’s AI-driven sorting technology allows us to make faster, more accurate decisions and to maximize the biological potential of every fish,” Australis Farming Manager Cristian Sauterel said.
The SORTPro system also sorts fish by growth potential and allows companies to remove individuals that will be unlikely to survive in the seawater phase through real-time health insights, Aquaticode said.
“By improving growth, increasing survival, reducing waste, and enhancing predictability, Aquaticode’s sorting system is quickly becoming the new standard for efficient and profitable salmon farming,” Aquaticode CEO Stian Rognlid said.
– McGraw Seafood, a redfish-processing company located in New Brunswick, Canada, has chosen Carsoe to supply new automated equipment for a factory upgrade.
According to a release from Carsoe, McGraw will be installing one of Carsoe’s automated plate freezers on a new processing line in its existing factory. The company said Carsoe’s ability to find a solution that fits into the existing facility – which was originally designed to process snow crab – was a main reason for making the deal.
“They presented a coherent, turnkey solution that matched our layout and constraints. Their experience in factory trawler retrofits gave us confidence that they could deliver a project tailored to our environment in an area of our factory with limited space,” McGraw Seafood General Manager Jake Augustine said in a release.
McGraw said the new processing line will allow the company to open new markets for its products and provide a consistent product with minimal handling.
“The plate freezer allows us to achieve excellent product integrity and traceability while supporting the throughput required for this type of production,” McGraw Seafood Project Manager Nicolas Forget said.
The company said the installation will be complete by the end of summer 2025.
