{"id":1013,"date":"2013-04-18T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2013\/04\/18\/funding-for-new-zealand-aquaculture\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:31:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:31:54","slug":"funding-for-new-zealand-aquaculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/aquaculture\/funding-for-new-zealand-aquaculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding for New Zealand aquaculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy said, \u201cNew Zealand seafood is a premium product and it\u2019s great to see groups looking to improve their production and value by developing aquaculture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The projects, commencing on 1 July 2013 and running for between one and three years, include $119,420 for Koura Aquaculture, by Wai-Koura South; $600,000 for Farming Premium Salmon, by the Salmon Improvement Group; $20,000 for Management of the GLM9 Greenlipped Mussel Spat Resource, by GML9 Advisory Group; $600,000 for Tuna (Shortfin-eel) Aquaculture, by Te Ohu Tiaki o Rangitane Te Ika a Mauri Trust (MIO); and $115,686 for Aquaculture custom bacterial vaccines, by Aquaculture New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Guy said that addressing information gaps is a focus for four of the projects and will include investigating how to reduce skeletal deformities in farmed salmon, develop best-practice guides for raising freshwater crayfish and manage the wild greenlipped mussel spat resource.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The eel project will focus on learning more about young glass short-fin eels so that they can be raised successfully and sustainably, and the other project will focus on developing New Zealand\u2019s capability with regards to manufacturing vaccines for Chinook salmon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five New Zealand aquaculture projects have been given grants by the Sustainable Farming Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1014,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aquaculture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}