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ISSUE 49 ■ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 $5.00 WHITEBAIT TRIALS: the latest successes NATIVE AUSSIE FISH OFFER VALUABLE BLUEFIN LESSONS TUNA – LOVE KIWI TAINTED OYSTERS TUCKER REMAIN A THREAT THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF NEW ZEALAND AQUACULTURE CONTENTS 6814 3 EDITORIAL 4 NEWS Action in the industry 6 BLUEFIN TUNA Food for thought 8 NATIVE AUSTRALIAN FISH I The Granite Belt Fish Hatchery YMT 10 OCEAN LAW: AQUACULTURE OVER THE HORIZON RTES ISSUE 49 ■ SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 $5.00 Ready? Set? Action! COU WHITEBAIT TRIALS: the latest successes AGE AGE: 11 THE COST OF FOREIGN OYSTER RECALLS RIM Why bring tainted seafood to NZ? COVER IMAGE: COURTESY MTI COURTESY COVER IMAGE: COVE 12 ACROSS THE DITCH Overheads killing the industry? 13 OTAGO UNIVERSITY’S SUCCESSFUL WHITEBAIT TRIAL NATIVE Inanga trials could lead to cashcrop AUSSIE FISH OFFER VALUABLE BLUEFIN LESSONS 15 MTI SAVE NATIVE GIANT KOKOPU FROM EXTINCTION TUNA – LOVE KIWI TAINTED OYSTERS Whitebait breeding now in third generation TUCKER REMAIN A THREAT THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF NEW ZEALAND AQUACULTURE ON THE COVER: A newly hatched Giant Kokopu TM EDITOR: DESIGNER: Rachel Walker Keith Ingram CONTRIBUTORS: ASSISTANT EDITOR: Peter Hutchinson and Joe Kearns, ISSN 1176-5402 ISSN 1176-8657 (web) Sandra Gorter John Mosig, Dorothy-Jean McCoubrey, An informative journal Matthew Wylie and Dr Mark Lokman, for the aquaculture industry MANAGER: Dr John Walsby Vivienne Ingram Published by: PRINTER: GEON VIP PUBLICATIONS LTD ADVERTISING: 4 Prince Regent Drive, Hamish Stewart DISTRIBUTION: By subscription Half Moon Bay, Manukau 2012 Ph 09 533 4336 Fax 09 533 4337 General: Reproduction of articles and materials published in New Zealand Aquaculture in whole or part, is permitted provided the source and author(s) are acknowledged. 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BY KEITH INGRAM he burning issues that face the aquaculture industry Raise this question with our politicians and the clucking always seem to settle on areas of security of investment, tut-tut brigade is soon revealed. Questions become all too Tand how to attract new investors with confi dence. hard and we are left with an ever increasing raft of platitudes The problems start at the top, with Government. While and excuses. Where is the commitment to deliver solutions, some of our politicians are talking the good talk, many marine I ask? No matter where I look within our hard working farmers are waiting for the day when these guys will start aquaculture industry, there is a constant threatening cloud of walking the talk and give the industry some real confi dence. gloom. Government, this must stop! The second problem is the age old RMA and compliance While I am not suggesting the situation is all bad, or that issue. No matter how hard a potential marine farmer tries, our politicians do not share our concerns when many do, or how much he spends on establishment costs and/or the talk remains cheap and action costs heaps: a cost that guarantees, some bloody newbie from town can pipe up that normally falls on the marine farmer. the farm will impact on his enjoyment of the marine vista, Meanwhile, Aquaculture New Zealand have been steadily supported by a heap of spurious claims, which they will working at a higher level, sometimes way up in the struggle to substantiate in the environment court, and yet stratosphere, above the heads and out of sight of most small could still win. marine farmers. Many are expressing concerns to me that Is this a recipe for sound investment when a third of your the small guys are not getting the support they would like establishment costs can be consumed in the legal process, from their national organisation working through the myriad with no guarantees, before you even consider putting a of obstacles they are expected to negotiate. Likewise, small foot near the water? Clearly from past bitter experience the potential new farmers or investors, are struggling to get past potential to successfully farm and raise fi n fi sh on land is the fi rst information post. It would appear that even the old very limited. While there are opportunities and successes to Ministry of Fisheries, now MPI, no longer provide any sort encourage the raising of species such as paua, they require of advice service to newcomers and as such, many potential access to clean seawater via a good sea pipe source and investors are being lost from the industry. existing sites are limited. Ironically, resolutions must start with Government But isn’t marine farming all about farming in the marine intervention by establishing an easier, environmentally environment, not on land, which adds another level of friendly process for dealing with marine farming applications. compliance and risk? One would have thought so. But The NIMBY objectors should be required to put up the what chance does a small guy have when even the mighty, facts, and when challenged, substantiate the facts at their own and proven King Salmon, have such a huge challenge cost, not that of the applicant. confronting the compliance process, just to get water space How often have we seen an application falter because the to expand their operation? applicant runs out of funds to sustain an ever increasing plethora Clearly marine farms are best suited to be in inshore, near of claims of perceived risks and threats, that he is required to coastal waters, where there is good tidal fl ushing and clean mitigate or prove as unsubstantiated, and while doing so, the water. The New Zealand marine environment is claimed to protagonists are busy dreaming up more, until the applicant’s be amongst the cleanest in the world. Sadly, it is no longer limited funds are exhausted and an opportunity is lost? the purest, as both urban and agriculture runoff have put Clearly Government intervention is required if we are paid to this. Yes, the backbone of the New Zealand economy, going to encourage investors and our young people to our farming community, have been quietly poisoning our develop and grow future aquaculture opportunities for the waterways and coastal waters for decades and it continues wider benefi t of our small coastal communities and the New today. Be it sedimentation carried in the water column, Zealand economy. fertilisers, high nutrients, bovine TB, brucellosis, or a raft of Is it time for political thought, commitment and action? Yes. other common nasties from the land, once in the sea have a Our politicians, both at central and local government devastating impact on our marine life and biodiversity. levels, must now walk the talk. 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REMINDER INDIA’S DRIED FI Signature __________________________________________________________Expiry date ——/—— Half Moon Bay, Manukau, 2012 THE INDEPENDENT VOICE OF NEW ZEALANDS H CUISINE AQUAC ULTUR E SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 ■ NZ AQUACULTURE ■ 3 NEWS KING SALMON HEARING ALLTECH AND NOFIMA IN STRATEGIC RESEARCH ALLIANCE DELAYED Global animal health and nutrition company Alltech and the Norwegian Institute of The Environmental Protection Authority Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, Nofi ma, have entered a strategic research hearing to decide whether NZ King alliance that will focus on optimising nutrition and management practices in the Salmon should be granted resource consent salmon industry. to develop nine new fi sh farms in the The research from this partnership will be conducted in six of Nofi ma’s Norwegian Marlborough Sounds was delayed two weeks. research centres, including Tromsø, Bergen, Stavanger, Ås, Sunndalsøra and Averøy. The hearing will now begin in Blenheim The purpose of the research alliance is to further contribute to the understanding on Monday August 27, at the Wisheart of microalgae in modern feed formulations and their role in health, performance and Room in the Floor Pride Marlborough fl esh quality. Civic Theatre. The original start date was Alltech Algae, a company based in Winchester,