Canada: Nova Scotia plans to revitalise oyster industry
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게시됨 2022년 6월 7일
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Nova Scotian plans to revitalise oyster industry. The Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia (NS) have announced funding support to the Verschuren Centre for Sustainability in Energy
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and the Environment (the Centre) through the Atlantic Fisheries Fund (AFF). On behalf of the Honourable Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Mike Kelloway, Parliamentary Secretary to Minister Murray and Member of Parliament for Cape Breton-Canso, and the Honourable Steve Craig, Nova Scotia Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, announced a total contribution of over $2 million to help the Verschuren Centre with the development of a land-based oyster hatchery. Once open, the hatchery will prepare broodstock and provide healthy seed, followed by facility decontamination of equipment and water, which prevents unnecessary spread of MSX (an oyster parasite) between oyster aquaculture sites. Funding this project addresses two of the main priorities for oyster growers in Nova Scotia for the past 15 years: finding a way to address concerns and the spread of MSX and a lack of oyster seed. The lab-based process established at the Centre will reduce ...