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The Story So Far
...... Friday May 16th 2008
It was many years ago when we first discovered
a saltwater species living quite happily in a freshwater lake. The species
itself was of little interest commercially but fascinating none the less. The
lake itself was quite unique in many ways and completely isolated. The local
tribesmen knew nothing of the remarkable nature of the lake itself and took the
fish for granted, as far as they were aware they had always been in abundance
and had been a valuable food source for as long as anyone could remember. At
that point in time we had neither the infrastructure nor the resources to
investigate further and for many years the whole affair remained a curiosity.
It was several years later that once again we
came across a freshwater lake that had a thriving saltwater species and this
time we just couldn't let it go. To begin with it was quite baffling as their
introduction had been relatively recent so their survival could not be due to a
genetic abnormality, in fact the very same fish could be caught a few hundred
miles away in the sea which is where they had been introduced from originally.
Once again the species was of limited commercial value and were in abundance in
the sea anyway. Even so, we began to wonder if other saltwater species could
also survive in a freshwater environment. Logic and biological studies said no
and to be frank we had to agree, but somehow these fish were flourishing.
Now it has to be stated right at the start that
Cod cannot survive in a freshwater lake so don't go trying it in
your local fishery as they will most definitely die. They can
however be reared in freshwater tanks under controlled conditions.
Many frustrating years have been spent trying to understand just how it would be
possible and the answer came in one of those eureka moments when everything made
sense. The fish themselves had the answer but trying to duplicate the process
was to prove incredibly difficult. We obviously have no intention at this stage
of revealing just how it has been done or the technology involved but we have
none the less solved the mystery and we feel justified in saying that this
approach could have a dramatic impact both commercially and on our fast
dwindling stocks. Cod, like many other fish species will very soon be extinct.
That isn't scaremongering it's fact, but now we can successfully rear Cod in a
controlled and commercially viable system which could eventually lead to
replenishing the natural stocks.
So why bother trying to rear Cod in a
freshwater environment ? If you think about it the advantages are immense. Large
tanks can be situated almost anywhere and provide the ability to produce this
very valuable commodity right alongside inland processing plants ... No need for
trawlers and no need to destroy what stocks we have left. Imagine the benefits
of rearing Cod alongside an industrial estate, no transportation costs, no heavy
lorries bringing fish from our ports etc. The benefits are simply huge. On a
much larger platform these systems could even be installed in developing
countries to provide a valuable and much needed food resource hundreds of miles
from the sea. Put very simply, the advantages of this system are vast. From a
purely commercial point of view the cost per kilo of getting Cod on the table
would be a fraction of the current price especially as the survival rate of
fingerlings reared in a tank are very much greater than in the wild. They also
grow up to three times as fast without genetically modified feeding practices
just by manipulating their environment. In the future much of our ailing
agricultural industry could be revived by switching to this new technology. Add
all the possible advantages to our environment in general and it becomes
priceless.
Development of commercial and readily available
systems is now the next priority but, sadly, this looks almost certain to take
place outside the UK as just about all the interest has come from abroad. As
usual the UK is the last to respond to anything new and there is no doubt that
having missed out on this opportunity you will end up buying it from abroad at
twice the cost. I personally have no objection to the agricultural community of
any country benefiting from our research but it would have been much more
satisfying if our industry had taken the lead. As a company we are very curious
as to how many other species could be reared in this way and perhaps one day we
will have the resources to find out.
As for now it seems we have little option other than to
move, lock stock and barrel, to one of the interested countries abroad.
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