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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
t. e. Aquaculture (less commonly spelled aquiculture[1]), also known as aquafarming, is the controlled cultivation ("farming") of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, mollusks, algae and other organisms of value such as aquatic plants (e.g. lotus). Aquaculture involves cultivating freshwater, brackish water, and saltwater populations ...
History. The company was founded by Albert Sanford. Initially, Sanford was a sole fisher, hunting snapper in the Hauraki Gulf, operating from his cutter, Foam, a business which he began soon after moving to New Zealand in 1864. Sanford and his family moved to Pakatoa Island in 1870 and from there to Rākino Island, where the snapper catch was ...
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.
The New Zealand longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii), also known as ōrea, is a species of freshwater eel that is endemic to New Zealand. It is the largest freshwater eel in New Zealand and the only endemic species – the other eels found in New Zealand are the native shortfin eel (Anguilla australis), also found in Australia, and the naturally introduced Australian longfin eel (Anguilla ...
Corbicula fluminea. Corbicula fluminea is a species of freshwater clam native to eastern Asia which has become a successful invasive species throughout the world, including North America, South America, Europe, [1] and New Zealand. [2][3] It is native to freshwater environments of Eastern Asia, including Russia, Thailand, the Philippines, China ...