Thursday, December 22, 2011

Canada Lake Mindemoya in consideration for fish hatchery pilot project

The United Fish and Game Clubs of Manitoulin (UFGCM), are looking into utilising a fish raising technology that is currently being used in a underground fish hatchery project at a Vale mine in Sudbury. The United Fish and Game Clubs of Manitoulin in a partnership with the Northern Ontario Aquaculture Association (NOAA), they believe that they can launch a similar project at Lake Mindemoya.

“The system is small enough that it can put in a basement,” Mike Meeker explained at an UFGCM meeting earlier this month. “The incredible thing about this system is that fish can be raised in troughs and then transferred to small cage-nets. So you can raise, say, 10,000 fish in a small place up to a few grams in size and then put them in the nets. This can be done in any water body.” Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers. To get your copy of 'PPLAPP' click here.


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