February 9, 2010

Marine Harvest and ENGO reach aquaculture agreement

Leading aquaculture company, Marine Harvest has reached an understanding with environmental groups in British Columbia.

Marine Harvest, an Oslo-based Norwegian aquaculture group, and the Environmental NGO (ENGO), the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR), have come to an understanding on two initiatives.

Marine Harvest is to go ahead with a commercial trial of a close containment system for salmon farming and it is to introduce an area-based approach to sea lice management in the Broughton Archipelago area.

According to reports, Marine harvest will test the environmental and economic sustainability of closed containment technology.

It is also to use improved farm and area-based management to reduce the likelihood that farmed salmon would infect out-migrating juvenile salmon with sea lice in the Broughton Archipelago.

Reports have also stated that Marine Harvest is planning to design and secure funding for a commercial-scale closed-containment pilot project early in 2010.