Co-Authors:
Milstein, A., Fish and Aquaculture Research Station Dor, M.P. Hof HaCarmel, Israel
Zoran, M., Fish and Aquaculture Research Station Dor, M.P. Hof HaCarmel, Israel
Krambeck, H.J., Max-Plank-Institute of Limnology, August Thienemann Str. 2, Ploen 24306, Germany
Abstract:
Thermal stratification negatively affects water quality, and thus is a threat to fish culture in deep water ponds and reservoirs. To prevent and control it, a device based on an underwater propeller that vertically transports oxygen rich warm water from the epilimnion down to the anoxic and colder hypolimnion was assembled. The empirical results so far obtained in Israeli dual purpose reservoirs for field crop irrigation and fish culture are summarized herein, and a mathematical model of the device's effect on reservoir thermal structure is presented.