 Kevin.S wrote:Sounds good, if they can make it work. Farming it instead of removing it from the wild can only be good for the wild stocks. |
| Capt Asparagus wrote: That is interesting that they run into a river, then go back out to try another one. Wierd! Even weirder would be catching some dyed whitebait! Orangebait anyone? 😊 |
| Davefish wrote: two main reasons against trout farming i can think of: 1. chance of getting a hell disease that then gets into wild populations. 2. if trout can be bought and sold then the poaching fraternity just got a pay rise. |
bazza wrote:
Whitebait are the only seafood I am aware of that amateur fisho's can legally sell & pretty sure there is no limit to the amount you can take providing it is in season & no licence is required to catch or sell. However there are certain regulations regards the allowable methods to catch them but no min size, as if you could imagine having to sort thru a few thousand whitebait in order to individually measure them. Will be curious to find out what they taste like but if they are bred in relatively static water rather than instinctively running kms up rivers then am inclined to think they will tend to taste more like the Chinese product sold in supermarkets that I am told are harvested from lakes & do not have the same taste as their wild counterparts. Then again I understand that even in NZ there are over a dozen varieties of whitebait of which it is generally recognised those called "Number ones" are in fact largely considered to be the number one.
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| Snappa Geoff wrote: In there Report- Whitebait stocks steadily reclining, there habitat being polluted and destroyed. Utter Rubbish! Maybe north of Bombays. But here in Naki record catches last season for most whitebaiters that keep there yearly diaries. Especially on the more reconized rivers the Mokau and Awakino. Many people i know over 100 kgs for season. And on pollution Niwa works with local council and have planting programs,fence off breeding areas where stock have access. Rat and mice erradication. Was once thought whitebait came back up same river there eggs were washed out to hatch at sea. A few years back down here niwa caught and died a whole lot from mokau mouth set them free a k up river. A few days later alot where caught up rivers miles from Mokau. They now now the Whitebait do go out to sea again on outgoing tides, and have another go up a different river. I think farming them a waste of time and money, as the returns to make it viable would never be there. Has been tried in Raglan harbour i think.Was a program few years back on tv, the Guy doing it packed it in after a few years. |
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