Friday, November 25, 2011

BC's salmon farms release latest bycatch figures

BC salmon farmers released the latest figures regarding catch of wild fish. The amount of bycatch from BC's salmon farms represented less than 0.001 percent of the industry's harvest in quarter two of 2011, according to numbers released by the BC Salmon Farmers Association. "Our farmers have implemented important practices to minimise the amount of incidental catch that happens during harvest," said Mary Ellen Walling. "These numbers really show how small that interaction has become as a result of changes that safely separate wild fish from farm stock during handling events." 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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