Tag Archives: fin-fish aquaculture
The futurist
If you are an Alaska commercial fisherman or someone who simply cares about the fate of the state’s small, rural communities still dependent on commercial fishing as their economic reason to exist, you can consider the man in the expensive suit above the devil. He is Norwegian Bendik Søvegjarto, chief executive officer of a company called Bluegrove. He and Bluegrove want to transform the way salmon are raised. “Cost reductions will obviously make seafood producers more competitive and more profitable, even as the seafood they make becomes more affordable for their customers.” The key phrases there – if you are an Alaska commercial fishermen – are “cost reductions” and “more affordable.” >click to read, and read you must< 08:26
PORT TOWNSEND – Fin-fish farm issue resolved, Jefferson County officials say
The net pen policy has held up approval of the shoreline management program, which regulates development on the shoreline, since February 2011. That’s when Ecology approved most of a proposed update of the shoreline management program, also known as an SMP, except for a proposed county ban on fin-fish aquaculture, which raises non-native species, such as Atlantic salmon, in pens. more@pdn 08:46
