{"id":1309,"date":"2018-10-31T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2018-10-31T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T14:51:58","slug":"cooke-aquaculture-sees-full-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2018\/10\/31\/cooke-aquaculture-sees-full-open-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooke Aquaculture sees full open house"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cooke Aquaculture had a full room on their hands for their open house on Oct. 30, as they shared their plans for expansion in the Liverpool Bay.<\/p>\n

The company is looking to expand their operation in the bay, up to double their current capacity of 400,000 fish.<\/p>\n

Joel Richardson, Vice President Public Relations with Cooke Aquaculture, says he was glad to see the turnout so high and get the chance to answer the community\u2019s questions.<\/p>\n

Among the more common questions were how soon the expansion would take place, which would be around 2021, and the environmental effects it would have on the bay.<\/p>\n

He says the sites have been monitored by DFO and Fisheries and aquaculture since the first cages were put in. Since 2002, he says it shows little impact on the bay.<\/p>\n

He also says new techniques to combat sea lice have seen a drastic reduction in the pest<\/p>\n

Cook Aquaculture must still complete an environment assessment and continue to gather public input before they make their application to expand the site.<\/p>\n

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This map shows the area that Cooke Aquaculture is looking over for suitable sites. The large yellow squares are sections that have already been studied.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Dalhousie grad students explain some of the research they have done in the bay.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Employees of Cooke Aquaculture were on hand to discuss their expansion plans, as well as farming techniques they use.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cooke Aquaculture had a full room on their hands for their open house on Oct. 30, as they shared their plans for expansion in the Liverpool Bay. The company is looking to expand their operation in the bay, up to double their current capacity of 400,000 fish. Joel Richardson, Vice President Public Relations with Cooke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}