Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Protests against fish farm change

The Medway River Salmon Association (MRSA), has been working extremely hard to repopulate wild Atlantic salmom, but a new threat has emerged in the form of open pen farming by Cooke Aquaculture. They recently acquired an ex trout farm off Coffin Island and converted it to open pen salmon rearing.

The president of MRSA Darrell Tingley said “We heard from a local person that Cooke had bought the Ocean farms, which was a trout farm off of Coffin Island, and they were going to convert it from rearing trout to rearing salmon,” said Tingley. “That gave us great concern because the Medway River is right here through the harbor.” 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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