Tony Orman: Aquaculture’s Salmon Farming — a dream or nightmare?

Current Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is an unlimited fan for fish farming. Recently, he named fish farming to the front line for investment opportunities between New Zealand and Thailand. Jones was on a Zoom call to delegates at the inaugural Thailand-New Zealand business matching event, in Bangkok.

Back in March, Shane Jones lauded the final approval of New Zealand King Salmon’s Blue Endeavour open ocean aquaculture project as a significant step for New Zealand’s aquaculture and a win for the economy.

Tony Orman: Shane Jones’s snapper farming proposal ‘full of fish hooks’?

… fish farming is capital intensive, high risk and only marginally economic. –American fisheries expert

Fish farming — injudicious and flawed

A proposal by Fisheries Minister Shane Jones for the farming of snapper has been described by an outdoor recreation organisation as “injudicious and flawed”.