Originally Posted by
BlackPeter
Which part of my post was incorrect?
I never said that they don't farm salmon in Europe as well, but they do farm trout, which we in NZ choose not to do. We even made laws forbidding trout farming - I guess, how dumb is it to forbid the production of cheap healthy and environmentally friendly quality food?
The part of Germany I come from had a lot of trout farming but I never said that they don't farm salmon in Europe as well ... of course, they do, but not in areas which are unsuitable for salmon farming (as NZK does).
Just checked the stats ... more than 20% of European fish farming is fresh water fish (I assume mainly trout and a bit of carp) and more than 30 % is seawater fish (I assume mainly salmon). The balance seems to be shellfish. Most European salmon farming happens in really cold waters (mainly around Scandinavia and Iceland), not in the South of Europe (which would be from the water temperature more comparable to Marlborough Sounds). Clever the Europeans, aren't they?
And yes - NZ Salmons board and management team allowed the company to establish their farms on highly unsuitable sites in waters with poor circulation, which was always too warm and clearly would not get colder with global warming. Scientists explained the impact of global warming for the last 50 years, but NZK's board must have had more important things to do than checking the science crucial for their business. Or did they just lack in mental processing the facts ... I don't know?
How is this the fault of the government and what is the confidence level that these dinosaurs thought through what the environmental impact of their newest toy of implementing a salmon farm on high sea might be?
Hopeless - NZK clearly has little environmental competence. Who wants to allow them to generate the next disaster?