Cooke Aquaculture uses Vessel to move fish

The Ronja docked in Digby

A live fish moving vessel the Ronja Carrier was being used by Cooke Aquaculture to move fish in the 100 meter cages in St Mary's Bay off long Island to 150 meters cages. The Vessel Ronja is being leased from the Norwegian firm Solvtrans and Cooke has recently extended its lease on the vessel till December 2012. Verreault Navigation built the boat in 2002 in Quebec. She is 10 meter wide, draws almost five meter of water, and can hold 650m3 of cargo. Read more ...

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