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Coal Mines as Fish Farms? That's the Hook in W.Va.

By Tom DunkelMay 30th 2010 – 5:30PM
Kelley McCall, AP

Kelley McCall, AP

(May 30) -- Turning an abandoned coal mine into a fish farm sounds like the stuff of TV parody: "Extreme Makeover, Geology Edition." But people in West Virginia are betting on the commercial potential of doing just that. "It's sort of an unrecognized resource," says Joe Hankins, director of the Conservation Fund's...

aquaculture News From the Web

  • 06/01/12 Fishmonger to Will, Kate coming to Nova Scotia Source: The Chronicle Herald There was a time when food snobs would turn their nose up at the thought of farmed fish.
  • 06/01/12 Fisheries College to start 'Aquatic Medicine' Source: Deccan Herald - India The College of Fisheries in Mangalore will be introducing a first of its kind degree course in the country called 'Aquatic Medicine'.
  • 06/01/12 Front Porch: Hatchery offers open house Source: The Daily Herald - Everett WA Willow Creek Hatchery's open house will be Saturday and Sunday during the Edmonds Waterfront Festival.
  • 05/31/12 Hybrid walleye featured at field day event Source: The Daily Press - Ashland WI Northern Aquaculture Demonstration Facility Manager Greg Fischer, gesturing, explains the operation of the fry rearing equipment that is a part of the saugeye raising project at the facility, located on the Red Cliff Indian Reservation.
  • 05/31/12 Barley fish feed headed for commercial production Source: Capital Press - Salem OR Montana Microbial Products, based in Missoula, plans to build a processing facility to make barley protein concentrate for use as fish feed.

Background on aquaculture

Aquaculture, also known as aquafarming, is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants.

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