can cod be farmed as salmon is?

Answer 1

It is.

Answer 2

The first commercially farmed cod all started their lives at Cod Culture Norway, a high-tech hatching facility outside Bergen, Norway.

Here advanced laboratory experiments take place in one room, while cod swim around in huge water tanks in the next.

Finn Christian Skjennum runs the plant. He has developed a technique whereby the plant produces plankton and minute crustaceans, which the cod larvae and fry need in order to grow.

"In cod we have to give live feed organisms. For salmon you can just go directly on to dry feed," Mr Skjennum explained.

"This is creating a lot of challenges. We need to be in control of all of the steps. The size of the larvae we are working with are much, much smaller than salmon."

The experiments at Cod Culture Norway seem to have paid off. This year, 300,000 cod fry were born, hatched and raised to farming size there. The total annual capacity of the plant is four million fry.

Mr Skjennum and others in the industry are in no doubt that cod farming will soon be a significant industry, perhaps bigger than salmon farming.

The possibilities for profit are considerable. Last year the Norwegian aquaculture business was worth more than $1.2bn.

Answer 3

Yes. There is somewhere I think in Scotland. It was on the F-Word a few weeks ago and Janet Street Porter did a report on Cod farming.

Answer 4

Yes. Cod is farmed.

Answer 5

Any fish can be farmed. Experts now want to farm Sturgen for caviare. Since carviare is becoming rare. Those poor rich people.

Answer 6

salmon are like what a coupla foot long and cod are about 8 feet long, you'd need a really big pond!

Answer 7

Yes it can. It is being farmed in the Bay of Fundy,New Brunswick Canada for example.

Answer 8

Yes but from what i understand it extremely difficult. At this time it is not profitable.

Answer 9

salmon is as salmon does

Answer 10

yes

Answer 11

cod is tasteless