HomeMy WebLinkAboutSaluting Huron County's Agricultural Industry, 1987-03-25, Page 4PAGE A4. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1987.
Restaurants provide important market
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and outside tanks are fed by
automatic devices, while the oth
ers are fed by hand on a regular
schedule. If there is room, the fish
can be moved to the outside tanks
as soon as they reach a length of
three inches. Kingfishers and
Co-op markets trout
Great Blue Herons are a constant
threat to the outside fish, but
netting over the smaller tanks, and
a lacing of wires over the larger
ones keeps the predators pretty
much at bay.
Up to this point, the Charters
have sold all the fish they produce
on their own, about 12,000 lbs. per
year, without access to the market
ing co-op set up for the purpose
(see sidebar story.) Robert figures
that one third of his production
goes to local restaurants and
markets, one third towards stock
ing private fish ponds, and one
third is sold at the farm, as fresh or
smoked fish, with a steady stream
of individual buyers becoming
more frequent every week as the
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The Ontario Trout Producers’
Co-operative Ltd. was set up in
Guelph in 1982 to solve some of the
problems of the province’s young
aquaculture industry. Producers
recognized the potential of almost
unlimited growth if they could
guarantee a constant supply of a
high-quality product, but many
fish-farmers did not have the time
Robert Charter feeds the
45,000 trout fry in the hatchery,
the result of the first hatching oj
eggs he has done on the farm.
orthemeanstoseeksuch a market.
They also realized that the
supply of fresh fish was uneven,
making it difficult for restaurant
owners to put it on their menus or
for markets to guarantee fresh fish
over the counter.
The Co-op was formed to
process, package and market fresh
trout, and has become efficient at
supplying wholesalers with a
steady stream of a top-quality
product, ever more in demand as
the diet fashion of the public leans
more and more toward fresh
seafood.
Membership in the Co-op has
risen from 14 in 1982 to more than
40 today, with most new members
joining in the past two years. In
1986, 10,000 pounds of live fish
were processed each week and
volume is rising rapidly. Plant
volume throughput in 1985 was 50
percent higher than in the previous
year, and final figures for 1986 are
expected to be up again by another
40 per cent.
By offering a premium to
fish-farmers who can produce fish
in the traditional low-season
months, the Co-op can encourage
more efficient production, as well
as being a constant source of
assistance to producers.
Several provincial ministries are
involved in licensing Ontario aqua
culture, among them the Ministry
of Environment, of Natural Re
sources, and Of Agriculture and
Food. Basic information and assis
tance is available to fish farmers
from any one of these, and one of
the best booklets on the subject,
“Aquaculturein Ontario,” may be
obtained for $3 from the Wingham
MNR office, or by writing to the
Ministry of Natural Resources,
Public Information Centre, Room
1640, Whitney Block, 99 Wellesley
Street West, Toronto, M7A 1W3.
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