Fish farm equipment manufacturer Fusion Marine has delivered eight Triton 450 Open Sea (OS) salmon pens for Marine Harvest's Marulaig Bay site in South Uist, Scotland, in an order worth more than GBP300,000 (US$429,000).

Marine Harvest puts stock security as a top priority in its farming operations and the company specifically requested the Triton OS pens for placement on the most exposed part of its Marulaig Bay site, given the reputation of this type of salmon pen for withstanding the toughest of conditions.

The new Triton OS pens have been developed by Fusion Marine to meet the demanding conditions found in open sea salmon farming operations and have already been successfully used in a number of offshore fish farming locations around the world.

As well as the pens, the complete fish farm package supplied to Marine Harvest included a new design of sinker tube to help maintain the integrity of the underwater containment nets, combined with net supports to keep out fish eating birds.