Aquaculture company hopes to create inland fish farm industry at Waikerie

Fish and seaweed could soon be farmed at a site in Waikerie by an Adelaide-based aquaculture company.An Adelaide-based aquaculture company wants to develop an inland fish farm hundreds of kilometres from the sea, using reserves of saline groundwater pumped deep from under the earth.

"The water is half-strength sea water and … a good intermediate temperature for growing local species like yellowtail kingfish," Dr Carragher said.", you're controlling as many of the conditions as you can to take out the seasonality and the variability," he said. focus of studies around Australia, investigating whether its use as a livestock feed supplement can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

But the report claimed commercial development had not proceeded "as expected" in Australia, mainly due to the "failure to secure long-term water security" of sufficient quantity.Dr Carragher acknowledged a key challenge for the project was securing funding due to "bad publicity" from failed aquaculture projects elsewhere.

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