Describing salmon as the canary down the mine, Bender says that the fish are the best warning signs for farmers.
"Biosecurity is something that we live and breathe, if we don't manage biosecurity we as an industry could not exist," she says.
The company obviously knows its stuff: it has been nominated for the Biosecurity Farmer of the Year in the Animal category.
The audio section gives a really good insight into how biosecurity works and how started off in the salmon industry.
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Is a private sector led fish industry the way forward for Africa?
Eleven countries in eastern Africa have begun drafting a policy to promote aquaculture, with the private sector leading the way.
Fisheries officials and government representatives met in Kampala, Uganda to evaluate the Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP) phase II fish programme.
The programme, which funded by the European Commission, aims to strengthen fisheries management.
The officials concluded that one of the key successes of the process has been is a developing a regional policy framework for aquaculture.
“The comprehensive policy framework will promote aquaculture as a business and encourage the private sector to take the lead,” Lovelock Wadanya, acting head of the fisheries sector for Uganda told New Vision.
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There's a lot of misinformation out there about aquaculture so I really like it when consumer media tackles aquaculture in an honest and balanced way. This article in Salon looks at salmon farming and is possibly the only article to refer both the Global Salmon Initiative and Breaking Bad.
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| English: Atlantic salmon. Salmo salar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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