With no
more room for net pens in New Brunswick waters, the future of salmon
farming in the province could be moving to dry land.
An
international conference on land-based, closed containment aquaculture
being held at the Atlantic Salmon Federation in Chamcook, a method that
seems to be gaining traction.
Research
& Environment Director Jonathan Carr tells us diseases
including infectious salmon anemia and sea lice, which is a major
problem in this province, is less of a worry when you farm fish on land.
Carr says if disease ever did break out on land, it's maintained in
your hatchery system and won't spread to other animals.
Carr
says they believe farming fish on land is a more sustainable way for
producing fish in the long run at a time when the global demand for fish
is on an upswing.
This was the second conference on the subject hosted by the A-S-F.