Nova Scotia’s first land-raised salmon could be on the market by next summer.
Sustainable Blue, a small salmon farm in Hants County, has moved in a batch of young salmon and said it’s well on the way to raising them for commercial sale.
Opponents of open-net salmon farming have long called for farms to be moved to the land preventing fish from exchanging diseases with wild salmon, but until recently there’s never been any Nova Scotian salmon raised out of ocean waters.
At the farm on the banks of the Avon River close to 5,000 salmon swim in circles through clear salt water kept at a constant 15 degrees to recreate the ideal ocean conditions. The closed-containment system recycles all its water, keeping water, fish and waste away from the ocean.
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