19/11/12: News stories from Indonesia, New Zealand and Canada

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We're back after a very successful EuroTier and have many exciting things to follow up on. But for now, here's our news round-up:

• A two-year project funded by the AusAID Public Sector Linkages Program has got underway in the South East Sulawesi region, Indonesia. The programme aims to help adapt and improve aquaculture farming practices in the face of mining and forestry activity which threatens the marine environment. The programme involves a partnership between the Fisheries Department, Dinas Kelautan dan Perikanan, the University of Haluoleo in Indonesia and the Victorian Department of Primary Industries and Deakin University, Australia. More information...

• Research to domesticate the New Zealand GreenshellTM mussel is now marketable thanks to a new NZ$26 million agreement. The Ministry for Primary Industries and SPATnz have signed a seven year innovation contract to selectively breed mussel spat at the Cawthron Aquaculture Park north of Nelson, using research established by Cawthron’s MBIE-funded Cultured Shellfish Programme. “It’s fantastic that research into product enhancement for GreenshellTM mussels will now be able to be used to benefit the New Zealand mussel industry and help it take off internationally,” Cawthron Chief Executive Professor Charles Eason says. “It’s possibly the most exciting thing to happen in the mussel industry for decades – it will propel it forward.” Read more... 

• Closed containment salmon farms are fairly common in Chile and Denmark but there is one commercial-scale, land-based fish for Atlantic salmon in North America. The Namgis Closed Containment Salmon Farm is set to house 23,000 Atlantic salmon smolts. This article by the Vancouver Sun gives a good overview of the farm and its activities. Read more...

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Salmon+farming+comes+ashore+land+based+aquaculture/7562924/story.html#ixzz2Cezob673

Twenty-three thousand Atlantic salmon smolts will arrive at the ’Namgis First Nation’s salmon farm in January, just a fraction of the millions of similar fish that grow to maturity each year in B.C.
What’s different about these fish is that they will never swim in the ocean, never come in contact with wild salmon and never be treated for sea lice.
’Namgis Closed Containment Salmon Farm is the first commercial-scale, land-based fish farm for Atlantic salmon in North America. It’s part of a global trend of large closed-containment farms also being pursued in Denmark and in Chile.
The ’Namgis smolts will grow to maturity in just 12 to 15 months in a facility nearing completion not far from Port McNeill on Vancouver Island. The ’Namgis farm uses five 500-cubic-metre tanks capable of producing a total 500 tonnes of fish each year.
The system is the first of five identical modules to be built on the site, when the designs and systems are proven, for total capacity of 2,500 tonnes a year, about the same as a net-pen salmon farm.
Despite the extra costs associated with land-based salmon farming, the product needn’t cost much more than net-pen Atlantic salmon. The carefully controlled environment in an advanced closed-containment system allows the fish grow to maturity twice as fast, in a smaller space with less feed than net-pen salmon.


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Salmon+farming+comes+ashore+land+based+aquaculture/7562924/story.html#ixzz2Cezob673

Twenty-three thousand Atlantic salmon smolts will arrive at the ’Namgis First Nation’s salmon farm in January, just a fraction of the millions of similar fish that grow to maturity each year in B.C.
What’s different about these fish is that they will never swim in the ocean, never come in contact with wild salmon and never be treated for sea lice.
’Namgis Closed Containment Salmon Farm is the first commercial-scale, land-based fish farm for Atlantic salmon in North America. It’s part of a global trend of large closed-containment farms also being pursued in Denmark and in Chile.
The ’Namgis smolts will grow to maturity in just 12 to 15 months in a facility nearing completion not far from Port McNeill on Vancouver Island. The ’Namgis farm uses five 500-cubic-metre tanks capable of producing a total 500 tonnes of fish each year.
The system is the first of five identical modules to be built on the site, when the designs and systems are proven, for total capacity of 2,500 tonnes a year, about the same as a net-pen salmon farm.
Despite the extra costs associated with land-based salmon farming, the product needn’t cost much more than net-pen Atlantic salmon. The carefully controlled environment in an advanced closed-containment system allows the fish grow to maturity twice as fast, in a smaller space with less feed than net-pen salmon.


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Salmon+farming+comes+ashore+land+based+aquaculture/7562924/story.html#ixzz2Cezob673

Mussels at Trouville fish market (Photo credit: Wikipedia)