Shankara20
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"The cool, clean waters of southern Tasmania is the perfect environment for the cultivation of Atlantic Salmon. Here the open sea rolls in from the Southern Ocean and mixes with the clear, fresh waters from the nearby snow capped mountains. These unpolluted waters have naturally high oxygen content and provide reliable current movement essential for maintaining fish health."
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"‘Blueblood’ salmon bloodlines for Tasmania
Reference: 06/102
A new science-industry partnership is recruiting an elite pool of Atlantic salmon bloodlines to transform Tasmania’s A$170 million Atlantic salmon industry.
25 May 2006
Only the healthiest, fastest growing and finest quality Atlantic salmon families will be selected in a commercial breeding program being developed by Salmon Enterprises of Tasmania (Saltas) and CSIRO through the Food Futures Flagship."
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"Saltas Board chairman, John Harry, says the majority of Tasmanian-grown Atlantic salmon begin life at the Saltas freshwater hatcheries at Wayatinah in the state’s Central Highlands.
“The Saltas stocks have been managed to maintain high levels of genetic variation, providing an excellent foundation for making great gains through selective breeding,” Mr Harry says.
“We’re building on this foundation with a large-scale breeding program that will select a small percentage of elite fish as parents. We expect to achieve up to a 10 per cent improvement for key commercial traits each generation.”
Each year, more than 5000 fish representing 140 salmon families are DNA fingerprinted and electronically tagged so their growth and health can be monitored. The tagged fish are grown in freshwater at Saltas, and in seawater at Tassal’s Dover aquaculture facility. Tens of thousands of performance measurements are evaluated each year."
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Tasmania's Atlantic salmon industry has grown from producing 53 tonnes in its first harvest in 1986, to 16,000 tonnes in 2002-03. The industry predicts tonnage will increase to 20,000 by 2005.
Tasmania's salmon industry is worth $160 million.
Tasmania grows the only farmed salmon in the world that does not require treatment to remove impurities.
Popular species from the wild fisheries include:
Blacklip and greenlip abalone
Southern rock lobster
Blue eye trevalla
Trevally/warehou
Pink ling
Stripey trumpeter
Tasmanian scallops
Popular farmed species, available 12 months of the year, include:
Ocean trout
Atlantic salmon
Pacific oysters
Blue mussels
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