>From: "Bruce Stallsmith" <fundulus_at_hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>Subject: RE: NANFA-- Speaking announcement for John Volpe (Atlantic
>Salmon)
>Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 11:11:08 -0400
>
>Actually, people ARE farming Atlantic salmon around the North Atlantic,
>from Maine to the Canadian Maritimes to the British Isles and especially
>Norway. Even farming a native species has problems, because the farm stock
>is genetically homogenous and almost always different from local river
>runs. Because native salmon populations have been badly reduced, there's a
>major threat of local populations being genetically swamped by farm
>escapees. The local populations are genetically distinct from each other
>through adaptation to local conditions, so a large evolutionary heritage is
>disappearing. And I haven't even mentioned local problems from the
>production of concentrated salmon poop in stationary pens in bays (hint:
>tides DON'T flush it out).
>
>--Bruce Stallsmith
>Huntsville, AL, US of A
>
>>Now you may ask why they aren't farming Atlantic Salmon in the
>>Atlantic...? It
>>goes back to what you've said.. It's who has the money and influence.
>>There
>>really isn't a commercial fishery for Atlantic Salmon the way there is for
>>Pacific Salmon. And some enterprising individuals who were tired of the
>>regulation on their profits in the west, decided they'd just grow their
>>own.
>>Unfortunately, the Atlantic Salmon's habits/physiological needs are more
>>condusive to farming them, and so that's what they chose to go with to
>>maximize profitability.
>>
>>Todd
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