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From time to time in the med, we see a large construction in the water that looks like a newly-constructed marina. These are fish farms. You'll find these all over the place.
Fish farms are almost always located near centres of population, because otherwise they'd need lots of transport and the fish wouldn't be fresh.
But the good news is that the fish farms are always located out of the way of the main traffic. Otherwise people would smash through them in boats every morning. They're also quite close inshore, only 200metres out of so, again partly to keep them out of the way of marine traffic, and partly to cut down on the amount of time it takes to get there for the fisherman who look after the farm. And as the fish farm is near the population centres and close inshore, there's often a good deal of shorebased light which falls on it from the shore, illuminating them.
Of course, sometimes people do smash through them in boats. They say that the farm was unlit and uncharted. But then, there are small boats that are uncharted, and floating debris floating all around - even whole trees - but even these are smaller than a fish farm. And since the delicate fish farms are often put out only from spring when the storms are over, the exact location of the farm would change. Smashing into a fish farm is far less excusable than smashing into the extra mooring buoys outside Yarmouth harbour, for example, and nort are the extra ones individually marked on the charts.
The best advice if out at sea is to have glass windows, pointing forwards. But on their own, these won't do. You'll have to stay awake, your eyes open, and look out of them, adjusting the direction of the boat appropriately, and AWAY from the fish farm.
If you do smash into a fish farm, be very grateful because you were about to hit the land not far behind it.
I hope that clears this up.
Fish farms are almost always located near centres of population, because otherwise they'd need lots of transport and the fish wouldn't be fresh.
But the good news is that the fish farms are always located out of the way of the main traffic. Otherwise people would smash through them in boats every morning. They're also quite close inshore, only 200metres out of so, again partly to keep them out of the way of marine traffic, and partly to cut down on the amount of time it takes to get there for the fisherman who look after the farm. And as the fish farm is near the population centres and close inshore, there's often a good deal of shorebased light which falls on it from the shore, illuminating them.
Of course, sometimes people do smash through them in boats. They say that the farm was unlit and uncharted. But then, there are small boats that are uncharted, and floating debris floating all around - even whole trees - but even these are smaller than a fish farm. And since the delicate fish farms are often put out only from spring when the storms are over, the exact location of the farm would change. Smashing into a fish farm is far less excusable than smashing into the extra mooring buoys outside Yarmouth harbour, for example, and nort are the extra ones individually marked on the charts.
The best advice if out at sea is to have glass windows, pointing forwards. But on their own, these won't do. You'll have to stay awake, your eyes open, and look out of them, adjusting the direction of the boat appropriately, and AWAY from the fish farm.
If you do smash into a fish farm, be very grateful because you were about to hit the land not far behind it.
I hope that clears this up.
