Expected to cost AD$5.5
million a new prawn and fin fish farm has been approved at Waikerie on the
River Murray, South Australia, and construction will soon commence enabling the
business to be operating in 2015.
A-Culture Holdings managing
director, John Henderson, says the company had initially planned to draw water
from the Woolpunda Salt Interception Scheme pipeline, but it will now drill its
own bores looking for between 20 and 30 million litres initially and then
topping up from there.
The aquaculture
farm will have a hatchery, three 500-tonne fish farm units and a processing
plant and if plans go as expected the company will process about 1,500 tonnes
annually employing 45 people.
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