Thursday, February 3, 2011

Developer touts salmon-rearing tank over fish farms

The developer of the first ocean-based salmon-rearing tank says his system will prove that healthy salmon can be produced for about the same cost, and with less environmental damage, as salmon grown in marine net cages.

“I came out of the net industry and appreciate all of the issues of rearing salmon in net cages,” said Richard Buchanan, CEO of Vancouver-based AgriMarine Holdings, citing disease, sea lice, fish escapes and waste deposits that contaminate shellfish.

In mid-January, the first of four massive fibreglass and foam tanks was installed near the Vancouver Island community of Campbell River.

The tank was stocked with 50,000 15-centimeter Chinook salmon, which, over the next 16 to 18 months, will be raised to four kilograms at a cost AgriMarine estimates at US$4.56 per kilogram, based on 2010 data collected at its freshwater salmon farm in China. 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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