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Guy Dean, vice-president of import-export for Albion Fisheries: “it’s a new industry, and people still don’t know what they don’t know”|Dominic SchaeferBy Jen St. DenisTue Apr 9, 2013 12:01am PSTAs technology and public acceptance push closed-containment aquaculture into the mainstream,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler outlet[/url], B.C. businesses are ramping up production of a new type of fish farming.Closed containment breeds fish in large tanks on land. Proponents say it provides an alternative to open-net fish farms in the ocean, a practice that has come under attack from environmentalists and some scientists,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler sale[/url], who say it can spread disease to wild fish stocks.Production from land-based farms is tiny compared with B.C.’s salmon farming industry, which produces 75,000 metric tonnes of salmon per year. But it’s beginning to gain acceptance from government, commercial fish buyers and the public. That wasn’t the case several years ago, said Andrew Wright, a retired engineer and board member of Save our Salmon Marine Conservation Foundation (SOS).“We met with many ministers in both provincial and federal government who argued that it was biologically, technically and economically not feasibly to raise salmon in a tank,” said Wright.In March, a federal standing committee on fisheries and oceans released a report encouraging more study of closed containment systems, while cautioning that land-based fish farms have a higher carbon footprint than open-net operations and much higher capital costs.SOS has partnered with the ’Namgis First Nation to build B.C.’s first closed-containment Atlantic salmon farm near Port McNeill. It cost $7.5 million to build and will produce 470 metric tonnes of fish when at full capacity. Most of the project’s funding came from Tides Canada,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler outlet[/url], Sustainable Technology Development Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO).Steve Atkinson,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler sale[/url],[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]discount moncler jackets[/url], the owner of Taste of BC Aquafarms, has tapped into government funding to expand his closed containment steelhead operation near Nanaimo. The $1.2 million expansion, which is partially funded by DFO, will increase annual fish production to 100 tonnes.In Langley, the owner of Willowfield Enterprises also has big plans for expanding his fish farm. Don Read has worked with biologist Larry Albright to breed the first sockeye in a closed containment system (see “First B.C. sockeye farmed on land to hit store shelves next week” – www. biv.com, March 27). He plans to increase yield to 100,000 metric tonnes in the next three years.Breeding the fish is one challenge; selling them is another. Richmond-based Albion Fisheries will be processing both the Atlantic salmon from Port McNeill and Willowfield’s sockeye and selling the fish to B.C. grocery stores.“It’s a new industry, and people still don’t know what they don’t know,” said Guy Dean, vice-president of import and export for Albion.Albion ran a trial of land-based farmed Atlantic salmon trucked all the way from the Freshwater Institute, an aquaculture lab in West Virginia. The company sold the fish in Safeway stores in the Lower Mainland from November 2012 to February 2013. The product sold well,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler on sale[/url], but Dean said it’s clear a lot needs to be done to educate consumers and grocery store staff. In the Safeway trial, Albion emphasized the sustainability factor,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler down jackets[/url], with signs that carried the endorsement of conservation groups and used the term “land-raised farmed salmon.”Dean said the fish sold at a price point similar to wild salmon – about 20% to 30% higher than open-net farmed salmon.But he expects the price to drop as the volume of fish produced increases.Tags: water,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler on sale[/url], fishing, Federal Government,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]discount moncler jackets[/url], aquaculture,[url=http://www.moncler-sale.org]moncler down jackets[/url], Albion Fisheries
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