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The project entails raising Atlantic salmon in a new generation of closed ocean cages designed to capture, compact and remove fish waste, keep out sea lice, prevent fish from escaping and withstand the elements.
Norwegian technology tests Maine waters GOULDSBORO — In Norway, one of the world’s top two producers of farmed salmon, raising fish at sea in closed cages has been tested for nearly a decade. Multiple contained floating systems are in commercial use there now after yielding positive test results. Whether such farms’ scale, though, fit Frenchman Bay, where a ferry, tour boats, fishing vessels and pleasure craft already coexist, is among many questions sparked by American Aquafarms’ plan to grow fish there on a large scale. On Norway’s northwest coast, beginning in 2016, the “Eco-...
Norwegian technology tests Maine waters GOULDSBORO — In Norway, one of the world’s top two producers of farmed salmon, raising fish at sea in closed cages has been tested for nearly a decade. Multiple contained floating systems are in commercial use there now after yielding positive test results. Whether such farms’ scale, though, fit Frenchman Bay, where a ferry, tour boats, fishing vessels and pleasure craft already coexist, is among many questions sparked by American Aquafarms’ plan to grow fish there on a large scale. On Norway’s northwest coast, beginning in 2016, the “Eco-...
Harris County forgives hundreds of small business loans for locals Dec 29, 2020, 9:01 am Dr. Randy Mitchmore (center, pictured with his staff) is one of the hundred of recipients of the new gift. The global pandemic has wreaked havoc on local small businesses; many have struggled without savings, credit, and capital to continue on during the downturn. For some immediate relief, Harris County and the Houston-Galveston Area Council (HGAC) offered some 444 area small businesses interest-free loans of up to $25,000 earlier this year. Now, in some feel-good, holiday news, the loans have b...