by Eileen Hughes

Created on: June 16, 2007

I believe that hatcheries are doing a great job and we need more of them. They are producing thousands of fish that would not be available otherwise. Therefore when people buy these fish they are not technically depleting the ocean bread fish industry. They could be counted then we would know how good a job they are doing in protecting the natural fish stocks.

If there were more of these hatcheries built it would take the pressure of the natural fish stocks. I have seen the way the trout hatcheries work. They breed thousands of fish every year. Some are on sold to other farmers and grow from 400grams up to as high as 3 kilograms. Some are let out into the rivers and the amount caught is controlled. You can only catch them during the trout season. I believe that they let some of them out into the rivers where fisherman can enter competitions and if they catch a tagged fish they receive a prize.

We desperately need these types of hatcheries, some of the species bred are: Silver Perch, Murray Cod, Sleepy cod, Australian Bass, Barramundi, Jade Perch, Catfish and Grunter. There are also the maron farms. Other countries have prawn farms.

Without these hatcheries are fish stocks would be in dire straits.

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