Canada: Nova Scotia plans to revitalise oyster industry

Published 2022년 6월 6일

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The Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia have announced a funding support of over $2 million to the Verschuren Centre through the Atlantic Fisheries Fund to develop a land-based oyster hatchery. The hatchery will address the concerns of oyster growers regarding the spread of MSX and a lack of oyster seed, and will establish a lab-based process to reduce parasite prevalence in MSX infected oysters. This will allow the oyster industry in Bras d’Or Lake, which has been devastated by the MSX parasite, to rebuild and bring economic stability to the local community. The funding comes from the $400 million Atlantic Fisheries Fund, which will continue to invest in projects over the seven-year life of the programme.

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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 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 ...

Source: Fish Focus