Marine aquaculture
Sir, — Interest in cultivate ing the products of the sea has sharpened appreciably in. Norway, and 1979 was a bumper production year for salmon (4000 tons) and trout (2700 tons) breeding. In New Zealand the report of the Fishing Industry Board (“The Press,” September 20) refers to trout farming bans and constraints on salmon farming. Earlier this year in India at a symposium on coastal aquaculture, Philip 7'orteH of the Commission for the Environment, presented a paper entitled significantly, “Non-technical Constraints on the Development of Aquaculture in New Zealand.” Instead of promoting expensive smelter projects which indirectly threaten the destruction of our remaining wild rivers through further hydro-elec-tric development, ministers might more sensibly explore the potential for an' export marine aquaculture industry completely separate from, and out of the control of, the freshwater sports fishing interests. In Norway, fish breeding is the only sector of the huge fisheries industry that can run profitably without subsidies. — Yours, etc.,
ERIC BENNETT. September 23, 1980.
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