Capt Asparagus wrote: The paerengarenga plant basically went bust because they were sold an inappropriate system by the consultant they got when setting up the farm. Being Danish he recommended a zippiddy-doodah Danish system, which they duly installed, only to realise afterwards that a fish farm for fattening eels , as it was designed for, was useless for kingfish. Sorry, not "useless", but rather, cripplingly inefficient, hence going bust. Had they used a Japanese system instead of being sold a pup by their Danish "expert" then they would have been fine. |
Tonto2 wrote: If this was a good idea large corporations would have been queing up. What this smacks of is a desperate attempt for a very few to justify their existence and jobs and tax and ratepayers |
Tonto2 wrote: I do realise what the article is about, and my point was why are our tax and rates dollars once again going in to this. Has the paua farm made any money yet? |
laidbackdood wrote: I just wish the government would subsidize the breeding of snapper and kingfish from juveniles and then release them into the wild..........they could even cream off the commercial a bit to fund it.......If they did that and released into the gulf ......NZ could have stocks for years to come.......otherwise i reckon there will be a slow but steady decline over the years of these two iconic nz fish.......kings are already nothing like they used to be......how viable is this idea?.......they had pah farm before. |
Eastender wrote:
I'm not sure how well hatchery reared fish would do in the wild? Bit like leaving a city kid to fend for himself in the bush. But I would happily donate my tax dollars to find out if I had the choice. |
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