Northern fish farmers hope to net some budget bucks

[Spiel]

Northern fish farmers hope to net some budget bucks

 

March 13, 2008 / northernlife.ca

 

 

Manitoulin and Northern Ontario fish farmers are thrilled over Ottawa's five-year, $70-million investment for the ongoing development of a sustainable Canadian aquaculture industry.

 

The Northern Ontario Aquaculture Association (NOAA) says federal finance minister Jim Flaherty's budget announcement demonstrates the importance the industry holds as an economic driver in rural Canada.

 

"Not only are we producing a healthy product that is naturally rich in Omega-3 Essential Fatty Acids," says NOAA executive director Karen Tracey, "we are now poised to make even greater economic contributions to Ontario's economy."

 

The association says in 2007, Northern Ontario-farmed rainbow trout generated $51 million in economic contributions.

 

Tracey expects the federal commitment signals a streamlining of the regulatory coordination between federal and provincial agencies governing aquaculture.

[irishfield]

Love how they throw money at one thing (open water fish farming) that is/has and can be detrimental to natural fish production/health and then on the other foot freeze all waterfront crown land sale in Ontario.. on any naturally reproducing Lake Trout water body... because they fear for the health of the Lakers.

 

So Ottawa gives away our tax money to something that's detrimental to natural stocks and the Ontario Goverment doesn't want to make any selling prime land because it MIGHT hurt natural Lake Trout stocks. There's a flaw in there somewhere...