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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6269582 | Artificial weed line A floating artificial weed line which attracts fresh or salt water fish. The invention is made of floating material preferably in the form of multiple floating panels connected together to form weed lines of any desired size. The panels are framed by a fl... | 08/07/2001 |
| 4803949 | Fish culturing method and sac-fry pond for use in practicing same A fish culturing method and a sac-fry pond for practicing the method are disclosed, which utilize irradiation of far infrared rays from above the water surface in a culturing pond and/or from the bottom of the pond to promote growth of fry in water of a r... | 02/14/1989 |
| 4658757 | Method and apparatus for improved aquaculture/mariculture A method and apparatus for controlling water temperature in a man-made pond includes means defining a closed loop raceway within the pond with at least a pump mounted to circulate the water in the raceway. At least a portion of the raceway is covered by a... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4509459 | Process and apparatus for fish growth acceleration This disclosure is concerned with novel cover arrangements for providing dark stacking and rest areas in confined water volumes for fish growth acceleration, including salmonoids and the like, and involving pluralities of closely spaced covers contacting ... | 04/09/1985 |
| 4399770 | Process and apparatus for fish growth acceleration This disclosure is concerned with novel cover arrangements for providing dark stacking and rest areas in confined water volumes for fish growth acceleration, including salmonoids and the like, and involving pluralities of closely spaced covers contacting ... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4379436 | Water-turbulence light-shielding method and apparatus for confined-volume fish growth and the like This disclosure is concerned with creating relatively darkened or light-shielded coverings along and upon a substantial selected area of the surface of a pond or other confined fish-holding water volume in the form of surface turbulence generated over sai... | 04/12/1983 |
| 4354457 | Method of and apparatus for enabling access to the interior of fish-farming ponds and the like This disclosure relates to novel portable walk-way constructions for ready application and withdrawal over floating and other covers extending over considerable areas of fish-farming ponds and the like and having internal openings, the construction enabli... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4351269 | Method of and apparatus for unconfined fish farming and the like The invention is concerned with training fish, such as salmonoids and other varieties exhibiting similar growth habits and characteristics, to live and feed in concentrated vertical stacks under light-blocking covers contacting the water (floating upon or... | 09/28/1982 |
| 4287852 | Fish growth acceleration and density-increasing apparatus and method This disclosure is concerned with novel, submersible cover designs for pools containing fish, such as salmonoids and the like, including vertically separated and stacked light-opaque covers that divide the pool into dark zones in which the fish are traine... | 09/08/1981 |
| 4271788 | Process and apparatus for accelerating growth rate of salmonoids and other fish and the like This disclosure is concerned with accelerating the growth rate of dense populations of salmonoids and other fish of related characteristics in ponds and the like by providing a light-blocked cover-shielded area over a substantial portion of the pond under... | 06/09/1981 |
| 4169050 | Buoyant contact surfaces in waste treatment pond A wastewater treatment and reclamation system using natural ecological processes consisting of ponds; greenhouse pond cover; pollution-consuming, floating aquatic plants; high-surface-area, submerged, activated bio-web substrates for greatly increasing fi... | 09/25/1979 |
