Scramble to save fish stock
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May 26, 2010 - The Straits Times
Scramble to save fish stock
Farmers cover nets with canvas; some lower nets and pipe in oxygen
By Jessica Lim
An oil spill contamination would be a double whammy for farmers, many of whom are still reeling from a plankton bloom that hit them in December, which sucked up the oxygen and led to a combined loss of about 400,000 fish.
FISH farmers are frantically trying to save their stock of fish, which could die if oil from a two-vessel collision yesterday reaches their net cages.
The Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA), which manages all the fish farms here, says there is a possibility that the oil slick will reach north-east Singapore today.
All 51 farms off the Changi coast are covering their nets with canvas skirting to prevent the oil from getting in. The skirting is on loan to them from the AVA.
Some farmers are also taking extra precautions, such as lowering their nets deeper into the ocean to minimise exposure to the oil on the surface, or piping oxygen into net cages.
'There is a possibility of the spill reaching Pulau Tekong and Pulau Ubin today, depending on the tides and wind,' said AVA's director of agricultural industry Wong Hon Mun.
'What we are doing is taking precautions. Should the oil come, at least the farms are protected.'
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fish price will increase eh?
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
fish price will increase eh?
don't think so but another loss for the fish farms. Sure there will be casualties.
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would just frozen the entired inventory.....cut loss.
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Originally posted by Arapahoe:
would just frozen the entired inventory.....cut loss.
most of the fish die during the Dec algae bloom so most of these new fish are still too small for sale.
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fish too small ah ? sell to those nasi lemak sellers lah, their fish all super small one what !
the seas around S'pore cannot rear fish one lah, so many ships pass through and so much pollution + algae and whatever !
let the farmer make money 4-5 times, i time all the fish mati - GAME OVER !!!
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:
fish too small ah ? sell to those nasi lemak sellers lah, their fish all super small one what !
the seas around S'pore cannot rear fish one lah, so many ships pass through and so much pollution + algae and whatever !
let the farmer make money 4-5 times, i time all the fish mati - GAME OVER !!!
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game over.
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why not try farming oysters ?
if the oysters were to die off, at least the pearls they produce can still be sold, right ?
i have to agree with asromanista2001, the seas around S'pore has too much pollution and too many ships that can introduce foreign bacteria or algae when they release their ballasts.
how many years of profit would one total wipe-out cost a fish farmer ?
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Originally posted by GOD is my dog:
why not try farming oysters ?
if the oysters were to die off, at least the pearls they produce can still be sold, right ?
i have to agree with asromanista2001, the seas around S'pore has too much pollution and too many ships that can introduce foreign bacteria or algae when they release their ballasts.
how many years of profit would one total wipe-out cost a fish farmer ?
pls learned more about the different types of shell fish. thank you.
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so is the prices of fish going to go up like this due to fish stocks died or is dying?
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all those industries or businesses affacted by the oil spill should claim from the companied involved. the MFA should lodged a complaint to their home country and maritime for compensation and apology.
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
all those industries or businesses affacted by the oil spill should claim from the companied involved. the MFA should lodged a complaint to their home country and maritime for compensation and apology.
the shipping firm or the port authority inefficiency?