school project on yellow tail kingys
Submitted by danobigfish on Tue, 2009-06-30 18:07.
hey guys
i am doing a school project on aquaculture and i have chosen the topic on finding out how and where theys fish get farmed
i am trying to work out how they are farmed and what are the effects on the enviroment
if anybody has any good sites would be gr8
cheers
dane
wadetolley
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try
Try this Dane! Try this link mate...its a write up on the Kingfish farm in WA up in Jurien Bay. http://www.stateone.com.au/downloads/Western_Kingfish.pdf
sunshine
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Date Joined: 03/03/09
In South Australia
I do know that in SA they had large escapes of kingfish (which previously were not a common species in SA waters) and they have further devastated the juvenile KGW stocks which were already in serious trouble despite the two gulfs supposedly being the home of KGW's for Oz. Mind you with their ridiculous KGW size limits which, by their own fisheries data, allows you to take them BEFORE they reach breeding maturity it is little wonder their fishery is a shadow of it's former self.
Quan
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Port Augusta
Sunshine,
I was at the above location fishing for these escape Kingfish...using the live bait i have caught, baby salmon & kgw, they totally ignored the baby salmon dangling infront of them, but smashed the kgw.
....If only my alarm sounds like my drag, then I would not always be late....
kane
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A current bag limit of 12 kgw in SA
As opposed to 30 a few years ago, I think SA leads the way in aquaculture and responsible fishing for the future personally.
As for yellowtail king fish they do farm them as well in SA cant remember excactly where though...up the coast south of Whyalla i think? Did you try Google? Im from the tuna farming town, sure you dont want to change your school report to tuna farming? I can help you more with that topic.
Gooooone Fishin!
sunshine
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Reduced bag limit is irrelevant
The key is the fact that yes they have reduced the bag limit but have totaly ignored their own research and NOT CHANGED the size limit which would be far more effective in allowing them to at least spawn once before gracing the dinner table.
Compound that by allowing a voracious species like YTK to be poorly farmed (there have been many escapes) and if that is leading the way then our fisheries really are in trouble !!!
danobigfish
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thanks
thanks heaps guys :D
all good info