Cooke's salmon cages are half full in St Mary's Bay

The salmon cages at St Mary's Bay owned by Cooke Aquaculture are about half full, seven out of the eight cages at one site contain a total of some 600,000 fish according to Nell Halse a spokesperson for Cooke's Aquaculture. She said the company had hired 16 people so far from Long Island, Brier Island and Meteghan to work the sites. She also said that it makes sense to hire employees from Meteghan as they work mostly from the Meteghan wharf. Read more ...

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