This web site provides public information about the LobsterPlant project. The project was initiated by the coordinator, Norsk Hummer AS and funded by EU’s FP7 – Research for SMEs.
Official start date of the project was on September 15th, 2008. The duration of the project is 24 months.
Project Description
Lobsters are cannibalistic in nature and should therefore be kept separate from each other in captivity. This fact makes it difficult to manually run large scale farming of lobster on land. The LobsterPlant project is focused on developing automated technology for individual monitoring and feeding of lobster in land based systems. This development will make it practically and economically feasible to run large scale farming of European and American lobster.
Project Results
Prototype
Currenlty, Labor and TI are working on building the prototype which will be tested at Tjelberdodden in August. The prototype will include the robot which hold the feeding system and the imaging system. All will be controlled by a developed software. The next management & technical meeting of the board will be held in Oslo in September 2010. At this meeting the results from the validation tests will be presented.
New Production Manager at Norsk Hummer's facility at Tjelbergodden, Norway
We are happy to inform that Mr. Sven Arild Korsvoll has accepted a position as Production Manager at Norsk Hummer’s facility at Tjelbergodden, Norway. Korsvoll has an Ms Science in Aquaculture (cand agric) from the University of Life Science, where he specialized in applied quantitative genetics. His work experience includes numerous positions in Aqua Gen, both as a project manager, production manager and breeding manager during his 14 years with this company.