Automated IP Vaccination · CE Marked
Thirty-eight years
in fish health
One new machine
An automated intraperitoneal vaccination machine built for fish from 10 to 200 g, designed by a team that has worked in fish health for thirty-eight years and running in daily commercial production since 2025.
10–200 g
Fish weight range
0.01–0.25 ml
Dose range
15,000 /hour
Recommended throughput
8
Sites successfully trialled
38 yearsin fish health
The working life behind this brand goes back thirty-eight years in fish health. Throughout that period the company has supplied vaccines and immunostimulant feed additives, built vaccination programmes by species and pathogen, and carried those programmes out in the field. The vaccination machine comes out of the same body of experience.
Engineering
Design priority: uptime and field repairability
The design is built on simplicity. Dosing is mechanical: nothing drifts and nothing needs calibrating, so the dose delivered on the last day of the season is the dose delivered on the first. The heads work independently of one another, each with its own vaccine feed: when one of them needs attention the rest carry on, and the heads can also be run on different formulations. Service and part replacement are carried out on site; the machine is designed for it and does not have to go back to the factory.
Mechanical dosing
The same volume, every injection
Dosing is by positive displacement. The piston stroke is mechanically limited, so the delivered volume does not depend on vaccine viscosity, temperature or supply pressure. The stroke alone sets the volume, and no calibration routine is required.
Configuration
AEV-8 — 8 heads, 4×2 layout
The standard configuration is 8 heads in a 4×2 layout, chosen after different head counts were tried in the field. The model number is the head count: AEV-4, AEV-8, AEV-12 and AEV-16.
Deployment
Land-based or on the water, and easily moved
The machine runs in land-based hatcheries and on floating platforms at sea cage sites. The parts that make up the body are selected for contact with seawater and salt: the load-bearing structure is 316 stainless steel, the profiles and fittings anodised aluminium. Because dosing is mechanical rather than sensed, moderate wave motion does not affect the delivered volume, and vibration is damped on the platform. It has been trialled on a floating platform at a sea cage site on the Aegean. The machine stays compact enough to be moved between rooms or between sites as the season requires.
Continuity
Automatic scale clearing at every injection, without stopping the machine and without touching the needle
The main cause of stoppage in automated vaccination is a fish scale left on the needle after an injection. If the scale is not removed, the next fish is damaged, the machine has to be halted, and an operator has to clear the needle by hand. The method used here removes the scale automatically after every injection, so that the machine continues to run and the needle is never handled by the operator. Clearing the scale also prevents build-up on the needle, so it starts each injection clean.
Fish welfare
The needle enters at the same depth and position on every fish
In hand injection, depth and angle depend on the operator and vary over the course of a long shift. Here the fish is held in a fixed position and the holder height is set to its size, so the fish does not slip or shift as the needle goes in. The needle enters at the same depth and the same point every time, the injection site is not strained, and the dose is placed where the protocol requires it. The needle goes in and comes out quickly, so the point of entry closes behind it and the vaccine is not carried back out.
Operator safety
The operator's hand does not reach the needle
The fish is loaded outside the injection zone, and the needle is not accessible while the machine is running. Needle-stick injury and accidental self-injection are the two incidents that stop a vaccination shift, and with oil-adjuvanted vaccines they require medical attention. A design that keeps the operator's hand away from the needle removes the contact these incidents arise from.
Verification
Every head counts itself
Each head keeps an independent tally alongside one combined summary panel. Only fish that have been vaccinated are counted: the tally follows vaccinated fish, not fish that pass through. Both the operations manager and the fish health officer can check that figure against the stocking figures. Counting head by head has a second use: the panel keeps the balance between the heads visible while the work is going on, so the facility does not wait for the end of the season to know the machine is running evenly.
Monitoring
It brings its own network
Each unit broadcasts its own local Wi-Fi hotspot and connects to an Android app over Bluetooth, so the counts can be read at the machine or from a phone anywhere in the building. There is no corporate network to join, no cabling to run and no IT approval to wait for, and the machine works the same way whether or not the facility has an internet connection. In the standard configuration, counts and operating data stay inside the facility as the operator's own records and are not sent to an external server or a cloud account. On request the machine can also be configured for remote connection and monitoring.
Installation
Air and power. Nothing else
The machine requires no dedicated water supply, no dedicated network connection and no purpose-built room. Compressed air and electricity are the only site services it needs, which is what allows it to be commissioned quickly and moved later without further site works.
Performance in production
Numbers taken from production
These figures come from a machine in daily commercial use, not from a bench rating. The machine has been running since 2025 at Noordzee Su Ürünleri A.Ş. in Türkiye, and has been trialled on sea bass and on rainbow trout at further sites on the Aegean coast, on the Black Sea coast and inland.
15 million
Fish vaccinated to date
The approximate total the machine has delivered so far, in field trials and in daily commercial production together.
120,000
Fish per shift
Approximate output over an eight-hour shift at the recommended throughput, in the standard AEV-8 configuration. The crew running it is the facility's own shift staff rather than trained vaccinators, and reaching the same output by hand injection takes a crew three times as large.
10,000
Doses per litre
Approximate vaccine consumption at a 0.1 ml setting, held steady by the mechanical stroke limit.
Reference site
Noordzee Su Ürünleri A.Ş.
In daily commercial production since 2025. Company name and facility imagery used with the operator's permission.
Field trials
Sea bass on the Aegean, trout on the Black Sea and inland
On the Aegean the machine has been trialled on sea bass at four sites: the hatcheries of Kılıç Deniz Ürünleri Üretimi İhracat İthalat ve Ticaret A.Ş. and Abalıoğlu Balık ve Gıda Ürünleri A.Ş. in Bodrum, the Akvatek Su Ürünleri A.Ş. hatchery in Çeşme, and a floating platform at a sea cage site. Trials on rainbow trout at Kuzuoğlu Su Ürünleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. and one further producer on the Black Sea coast, and at an inland site in Elazığ, were also concluded successfully.
Weight range
Vaccination from 10 g upward
The lower bound is the point at which dip vaccination stops and injection begins, so fish can be vaccinated earlier, while they are still in a land-based facility. The upper bound is 200 g. Sea bass, sea bream, trout, salmon and other farmed fish species.
Technical specification
Every value for the machine
The technical values are published below. Power and compressed air consumption, together with machine dimensions and weight, change with the number of heads, so they are not given as a single figure; they are stated in the quotation for the configuration selected.
AEV-4
- Heads
- 4, in a 2×2 layout
- Recommended throughput
- Approx. 7,500 fish/hour
AEV-8
Standard
- Heads
- 8, in a 4×2 layout
- Recommended throughput
- Approx. 15,000 fish/hour
AEV-12
- Heads
- 12, in a 6×2 layout
- Recommended throughput
- Approx. 22,500 fish/hour
AEV-16
- Heads
- 16, in an 8×2 layout
- Recommended throughput
- Approx. 30,000 fish/hour
Intermediate and odd head counts are built to order, from a single head upward.
Product
Automated intraperitoneal (IP) fish vaccination machine
Fish weight range
10–200 g
Species
Sea bass, sea bream, trout, salmon and other farmed fish species
Species trialled in the field
Sea bass and rainbow trout, across seven sites in Türkiye
Dose range
0.01–0.25 ml
Dose setting
Set to the customer's protocol prior to order
Dosing mechanism
Positive displacement. The piston stroke is mechanically limited, so delivered volume is independent of vaccine viscosity, temperature and supply pressure.
Vaccine consumption
Approx. 10,000 doses per litre at a 0.1 ml setting
Model range
AEV-4 · AEV-8 · AEV-12 · AEV-16. The model number is the head count.
Standard configuration
AEV-8 — 8 heads in a 4×2 layout
Vaccine formulations
Each head has its own vaccine feed, so the heads can be run on different formulations: on the AEV-8, each of the eight heads can carry a different vaccine. Each head carries its own stroke setting, so a change of formulation does not call for recalibration.
Recommended throughput (AEV-8)
Approx. 15,000 fish/hour · approx. 120,000 fish per 8-hour shift
Maximum throughput (AEV-8)
Approx. 25,000 fish/hour · approx. 200,000 fish per 8-hour shift (engineering rating)
Operators required
1 operator per 2 heads — 4 operators on the AEV-8
Loading
Every step on the machine is automated except loading, which the operator does by hand
Injection consistency
The needle enters at the same depth and position on every fish
Operator safety
The needle is not accessible while the machine is running; the operator's hand does not reach it
Scale removal
Scales are cleared from the needle automatically after every injection
Counting
Each head counts independently; one combined summary panel shows the total. Only vaccinated fish are counted, and the records are held in a separate layer protected against deletion.
Monitoring
Connects to a companion Android application over Bluetooth and over a local Wi-Fi hotspot broadcast by each unit. In the standard configuration monitoring is limited to within the facility and the machine does not connect to a corporate network or an external server. Remote connection and monitoring can be provided on request.
Height adjustment
The holder height is set to the size of the fish
Installation requirement
Compressed air and electricity only
Body material
Load-bearing structure in 316 stainless steel; profiles and fittings in anodised aluminium. The parts that make up the body are selected for contact with seawater and salt, and the outer body can be washed down with pressurised water.
Deployment
Land-based hatcheries and floating platforms at sea cage sites; moderate wave motion does not affect the delivered volume and vibration is damped on the platform
Set-up time
Set up and ready to vaccinate in under an hour, once the machine has been moved
Certification
CE marked. Certificates for the components used in the machine are provided with the quotation for the configuration selected.
Support
On-site installation, operator training and remote support through the season
Power consumption
Varies with head count; stated in the quotation
Compressed air consumption
Varies with head count; stated in the quotation
Dimensions and weight
Varies with head count; stated in the quotation
EU Declaration of Conformity
Issued for the machine supplied
Capacity and throughput figures are approximate. Output on site differs considerably with species, fish weight and condition, water temperature, facility layout and the experience of the operating crew. Dose range, weight range and head count are not covered by this: they are design specifications, set to the customer's protocol before the order.
Service and spare parts
Installation, training and season-long support after delivery
What stands behind a machine matters as much as the product itself. The path from installation to the end of the season is set out below.
01 / Installation
Installed and commissioned on site
The machine is installed at the operator's own facility, connected and set up. Commissioning is completed by running the machine under production conditions.
02 / Training
Operators trained on site
Training in loading, monitoring and routine maintenance is delivered on the machine supplied, with the operator's own crew and at their own facility.
03 / Season support
Reachable while it matters
Remote support runs through the vaccination season. Questions raised during the season are answered by the team that knows the machine.
Spare parts list — prepared for each machine and provided with the quotation.
Company information
The company behind the brand
Aegean Vaccine is the aquaculture brand of İzmir Paketleme Lojistik İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti. The company supplies vaccines and immunostimulant feed additives, builds vaccination programmes by species and pathogen, and carries them out on site. That experience spans every generation of vaccine the sector has used, from early inactivated bacterins to today's oil-adjuvanted multivalent formulations, and from immersion and oral delivery to intraperitoneal injection. The legal entity you would be contracting with is set out below.
- Legal entityİzmir Paketleme Lojistik İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.
- BrandAegean Vaccine
- Websiteaegeanvaccine.com
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Kenan Ateş
Founder and Managing Director
Aegean Vaccine
İzmir Paketleme Lojistik İnşaat Sanayi ve Ticaret Ltd. Şti.
Founder
Kenan Ateş
He entered the sector in 1988 at Mordoğan Su Ürünleri, which was then the second hatchery in Türkiye, and went on to build hatchery and pre-growing units from the ground up. He was part of the team behind some of the first fish vaccination work carried out in Türkiye. From 2002 to 2010, at Teknofarm, he managed the Aegean field application and logistics for the fish vaccines of Alpharma, then one of the largest developers of fish vaccines in the Mediterranean basin. He founded his own fish health company in 2010 and began developing the vaccination machine in 2022.
- 1988 – 1996Mordoğan Su Ürünleri — facility built from the ground up; broodstock and larval rearing management
- 1996 – 2000Kılıç Deniz Ürünleri Üretimi İhracat İthalat ve Ticaret A.Ş. — hatchery built in Milas Ören; broodstock and adaptation management
- 2000 – 2002Pınar Deniz Ürünleri — pre-growing and vaccination unit built and run
- 2002 – 2010Teknofarm — Aegean field application and logistics management for Alpharma fish vaccines
- 2010Own fish health and vaccine company founded
- 2022Development of the automated vaccination machine begins
- 2025The machine enters daily commercial production