The purpose of the Standard is to reduce the risk of escape as a result of technical failure and wrong use of marine fish farms. The Standard sets requirements regarding design of marine fish farms and how it shall be documented, including calculation and planning rules. The Standard gives parameters which shall be used to indicate the condition of the site. Requirements regarding design include requirements for all main components of marine fish farms, such as net pens, floating collars and rafts as well as requirements for functionality of the marine fish farm as a whole, including any extra equipment. A description is given of how marine fish farms shall be placed based on the site conditions at the given site. The Standard also sets requirements as to how marine fish farms shall be operated in order to be acceptably escape-proof. Technical requirements or operational tasks which are not relevant to escape of farmed fish are not included in this Standard. The Standard does not completely cover all the circumstances which can be relevant for escape. However, it is assumed that such elements are included in the risk analyses, even though they are not explicitly mentioned in this Standard.
