Fish Farms

[bones]

While fish farm supporters on this forum continue to beat a dying horse and support unsustainable net pen salmon farms the industry they defend is moving on and out of the water - Ya gotta like it!!!

https://www.fis.com/fis/worldnews/w...460103765&mc_cid=c2d8adfac0&mc_eid=40977b7a71

Salmon land-farm planned to be built by Whole Oceans in Bucksport. (Image: Whole Oceans Vimeo)

Maine's firm expects to start salmon land-based farm construction in 2019

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UNITED STATES
Tuesday, October 16, 2018, 23:50 (GMT + 9)
A Portland-based company, Maine, is planning to build a USD 75 million land-based aquafarm to raise Atlantic salmon indoor in Bucksport — Maine’s second such facility, at the former Verso paper mill site.

The company Whole Oceans has filed nine permit applications with local, state and federal regulators to build its plant and according to a spokesperson for the firm, the process is going well, Bangor Daily News reported.

The company originally hoped to begin site work preparation as early as two months ago, with construction to follow, but the permitting process is not finished.

Whole Oceans expects to create hundreds of direct jobs and hopes to expand its initial investment to more than USD 250 million in Bucksport in a phased, multi-year plan. Its goal is to produce 5,000 metric tons of Atlantic salmon per year.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) spokesperson David Madore said Whole Oceans has filed a waste discharge permit.

The DEP also will review site development and general site construction permit proposals. Other applications for permits are pending or will be filed with the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry, and the Town of Bucksport.


Whole Oceans: Sustainably Farmed Atlantic Salmon from Whole Oceans on Vimeo.


editorial@fis.com

If your going to post things here on an open forum then you should be prepared for questions against your post...if you don't want to answer fair enough don't then....... but it is a question of concern and a global problem that should be brought into the open to discuss.

 

[rockdog]

The water is recycled treated and recycled of course, unlike the water around net pen fish farms and processing plants that are polluted with concentrated fish feces, dead fish, pesticides, antibiotics and numerous diseases.

The great Ian Roberts said it best when he said "the ocean just has a way of making things go away"

 

[bones]

Theres really only one dude that resorts to name calling and throwing sand in the sandbox. You threw sand in my eye!
Pretty fired up today Fabes?

Not really I'm not the person name calling, I haven't thrown any sand.... I asked a question 40 posts ago. Do you have any data to back up your claims on fish farms killing fish from sea lice. 40 posts from you and fogged in cali and trophy no answer.....name calling that's all you've done.

Your not helping your stance or arguing.ent. sad was hoping for some information from 2017 and 2018 studies. We could have had a discussion regarding this but you went down the wrong road.

 

[bones]

The great Ian Roberts said it best when he said "the ocean just has a way of making things go away"

Exactly........ like when a fish poops the ocean it has away of making it go away. You did watch that video from the people that monitor the ocean floor below a lease. Wow thought you would have just ignored that

 

[trophywife]

like a drop in a bucket from a decent source, far better than open polluting hey?

maybe think of the billions that have, and are, being polluted before you answer.