Seafood News Aquaculture

NZ King Salmon’s expansion plans resisted

World Headlines From farm to plate, every fish... Cermaq gives up Copeinca bid Sainsbury's admit Scottish salmon... Copper River sockeye harvest falls... NGO reports Sainsbury’s to... FDA suing ‘insanitary’ fish... Clearwater’s John Risley’s next... Big quota brings big challenges EU threatens Faroe Islands with... Fiji company denies shark finning... China feed firms thriving Iceland fishing group challenges... Seafood carves a niche in the...  Farmed or wild, salmon prices to... US catfish program repeal makes... SeafoodSourceTV: Behind China...

By SeafoodSource staff
30 April, 2012 - The Marlborough District Council says in opposing King Salmon’s expansion plans it is defending the integrity of its district plan and the beauty of the Marlborough Sounds from a “gold rush” of fin farming applications.

The country’s largest fin fish farmer has asked the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to approve its expansion plans in the Marlborough Sounds but the area it wants to use is prohibited for aquaculture under the district council’s plan.

The EPA administers applications for major infrastructure projects of national significance, and regulates new organisms and hazardous substances and chemicals.

Click here to read the full story from Business Day > 

| Printer Friendly Version | Back to home »