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Aquaculture is the general term given to the cultivation of any fresh or saltwater plant or animal. It takes place in New Zealand in coastal marine areas (mariculture) and in inland tanks or enclosures. Aquaculture in New Zealand currently (2008) occupies 14,188 ha. Of that area, 7,713 ha is in established growing areas and is owned by the ...
Mytilus tasmanicus Tenison-Woods, 1876. Perna canaliculus, [a] the New Zealand green-lipped mussel, also known as the New Zealand mussel, the greenshell mussel, kuku, and kutai, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae (the true mussels). P. canaliculus has economic importance as a cultivated species in New Zealand.
Pāua aquaculture is a growing industry in New Zealand. The industry was started in New Zealand in the 1980s, and to date there are 14 pāua farms operating throughout New Zealand, from Whangārei to Stewart Island. The first farms consisted of small-scale backyard and shed farms in which techniques and processes that grew good-quality pāua ...
New Zealand King Salmon is an aquaculture business located in the Nelson-Tasman region in New Zealand. [1] The business' operations include hatchery and broodstock facilities in Tākaka, sea farms in the Marlborough Sounds and a processing facility and corporate head office in Nelson. [2] The company produces around 8,000 tonnes of king salmon ...
The aquaculture of salmonids is the farming and harvesting of salmonid fish under controlled conditions for both commercial and recreational purposes. Salmonids (particularly salmon and rainbow trout), along with carp and tilapia, are the three most important fish groups in aquaculture. [2] The most commonly commercially farmed salmonid is the ...
The growth rate of worldwide aquaculture has been sustained and rapid, averaging about 8% per year for over 30 years, while the take from wild fisheries has been essentially flat for the last decade. The aquaculture market reached $86 billion [60] in 2009. [61] Aquaculture is an especially important economic activity in China.
The fishery in the 2000s. By 2000, the industry had developed from being a domestic supplier to exporting over 90 percent of the fish harvest. [8] Over the ten years between 2008 and 2017, 180,100 km 2 or 4.4% of the New Zealand's sea floor was fished by the method of bottom trawling. [12] This was 13.0% of the 'fishable' seafloor area open to ...
White, 1842. Species. P. planifrons White, 1842. P. zealandicus (White, 1847) Paranephrops is a genus of freshwater crayfish found only in New Zealand. They are known by the English common names freshwater crayfish[1] and koura, [2] the latter from their Māori name of kōura. [1]