NZ Snapper Trial Promising Underwater Pen is Innovative 'Stepping Stone' Towards Open Ocean Farming
Finfish are being trialled in an open ocean aquaculture test system for the first time in New Zealand – in a “soft”, Kiwi-designed underwater pen.
Plant & Food Research has moved around 2000 snapper from its Nelson finfish facility to its prototype pen in Tasman Bay, about 6km off the western coast of D’Urville Island, after the project got fast-track approval last year.
Programme lead Dr Suzy Black said the system developed by Plant & Food Research was the first of its kind...
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