Monday, February 28, 2011

Aquaculture offers huge potential

Greenshell mussels, Pacific oyster and King Salmon dominate New Zealand's sea-based aquaculture industry but waiting in the wings are other species including kingfish and sea cucumber which may be farmed in the ocean and on land.

A kingfish farm is proposed on land near Katikati and a joint venture between Chinese aquaculture company Oriental Ocean and the Whakatohea Maori Trust Board will see extensive land and ocean aquaculture operations established at Opotiki, including growing sea cucumber.

It took adventurous pioneers to launch aquaculture in New Zealand, initially growing oysters and greenshell mussels, but before the early 1990s and the establishment of the Resource Management Act, it was mainly a cottage industry with individuals or small companies using their ingenuity and a lot of trial and error to produce commercial crops. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.
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