The Atlantic Salmon Federation and the Conservation Fund are joining forces in a research project that will try to rear salmon in a freshwater closed-containment system.
"It's huge, it's groundbreaking," Bill Taylor, the federation's president, said. "Hopefully it will help us move towards much more environmentally friendly and wild-salmon friendly aquaculture."
Over the next year, the federation plans to grow 10 tonnes of salmon in a circular, stainless-steel tank that is slightly larger than an Olympic swimming pool.
The Conservation Fund, an American non-profit organization, has successfully conducted similar trials with St. John River salmon in smaller qualities, but Taylor said this project is the first trial of this magnitude. Taylor said the project's budget is $120,000.
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