Water monitoring solutions provider YSI has donated technology and expertise to The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute.
Freshwater is using the donation to grow healthily populations of salmon and trout on land.
“We have to keep finding new ways to increase the supply of healthy seafood,” said Joe Hankins, vice president at The Conservation Fund. “Because we continuously filter and clean the water in our tanks, our fish are healthy, and we’ve never had to use antibiotics, pesticides or other treatments to keep them that way. With the new water quality monitoring equipment and control expertise from YSI, we are assuring the best viable alternative to open-water fish farms and protecting wild stocks of salmon and trout.”
“YSI is proud to work in conjunction with quality organisations committed to the environment,” said Tim Grooms, product manager. “Working closely with the Freshwater Institute to continuously provide water quality information in their closed containment aquaculture systems is vital to conserving our most precious resource – water. In addition, placing these systems close to the markets they are intended to serve further reduces consumption of resources and reduces the dependence of extra treatments on their livestock.”
Today, the aquaculture industry is growing faster than any other sector of food production. More than half of the world’s fish and shellfish are farmed – and the US alone imports 85% of its seafood from farmed sources. Finding cleaner, healthier, and more economical ways to grow fish on land without depleting natural fish stocks or polluting our oceans is a key mission of The Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute.
“The time has come to chart a new path forward, with cleaner, healthier and less polluting ways to grow fish on land,” added Mr Hankins. “That is what we’re doing at our Freshwater Institute with the support of YSI.”
