Friday, January 27, 2012

Scottish company planning Nova Scotia fish farm

Loch Duart Ltd a Scottish aquaculture company, is planning to open a fish farm in Nova Scotia, Nick Joy wants to prove the farmed salmon naysayers wrong. A Canadian subsidiary, Snow Island Salmon Inc., has applied to the provincial government for finfish leases on three sites in Shoal Bay, Spry Bay and Beaver Harbour on the Eastern Shore.

Joy, who plans to attend an open house and public meeting at Branch 58 of the Royal Canadian Legion in Sheet Harbour on Feb. 6, said the development could accommodate up to 500,000 fish in 20 pens. The plan has raised the hackles of a blog site called Save the Eastern Shore that argues that large-scale salmon farms threaten the marine environment. Read more ...

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