A New York City-based company is proposing to build a $65 million fish farm in the Glen Canal View Business Park, creating 175 jobs and producing more than 17 million pounds of fish annually for commercial sale.
The 840,000-square-foot facility would sprawl over 130 acres and house tanks and other specialized equipment to grow fish on a massproduction scale. By comparison, the nearby Target distribution center measures about 2 million square feet.
Jason Conwall, senior press offi – cer for Empire State Development, said the project would likely be phased in over several years. The initial project would cost $65 million and could expand to two additional facilities in the Mohawk Valley region, bringing the total project cost to $160 million, he said.
The Glen Canal facility would be one of the biggest commercial fi shgrowing facilities in the state and would provide a tremendous boost to the budding aquaculture industry, said Ted Universal, president of the New York State Aquaculture Association. “I am pleased to hear someone is going into this in a big way. Every state in the United States is pushing aquaculture except New York. We are being held up with fi shing regulations, which are being used in a lot of cases to determine what people could do in aquaculture.”
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