Controversial aquaculture sites OK’d

Saint Marys Bay near Digby could be home to as many as two million farmed salmon following government approval of two controversial aquaculture sites. Cooke Aquaculture of Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick has received federal and provincial environmental approvals for the farms, part of a planned CAN$150 million (€106.459 million) expansion that could create more than 400 jobs in Nova Scotia, company spokeswoman Nell Halse said in an interview from Saint John, New Brunswick, on Thursday.

"The first step was getting the sites approved," she said. The Saint Marys Bay farms are part of an ambitious multi-year plan that could also see Cooke develop a hatchery in Digby, three more farms and a processing plant in Shelburne, and expand its feed mill in Truro. "It’s in the order of CAN$150 million (€106.459 million), if we do everything we want to do," said Halse. Read more ...

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