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European sea bass farm coming to Windsor (or we could just stop eating other beings)

European sea bass farm coming to Windsor
24.jun.08
The Nova Scotia Business Journal
Jennifer Taplin
http://novascotiabusinessjournal.com/index.cfm?sid=146775&sc=107

Windsor -- Thanks to a couple of government loans, a fish farm near Windsor will be growing Mediterranean Sea bass. Sustainable Fish Farming Canada will soon bring in hundreds of thousands of baby fish, said Kirk Havercroft. Restaurants and seafood lovers can have locally-grown Mediterranean Sea bass on the menu in about a year.
These new immigrants grow quickly, but require extra care since they're used to warmer waters. So they'll have to be kept in tanks in-land with recirculated water instead of pens in the Atlantic Ocean. This is something that gets a nod of approval from the Ecology Action Centre.

Anna Magera said closed-containment aquaculture set-ups deal with some of the environmental issues with aquaculture farming. Open-net pens can spread disease and release waste and nutrients into open waters.

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