UK – South Staffordshire College’s unique Aquaculture resources, which combine student courses with a commercial business, has hit a milestone with sales from its fish hatchery in the Rodbaston Aquaculture Centre reaching the five million mark.
The business is located on an idyllic 180-hectare Staffordshire parkland estate which forms the College’s Rodbaston Campus and is home to a wide range of land-based activities that will shape the next generation of young farmers and rural entrepreneurs.
Within the Aquaculture fish hatchery carp production facilities take the process from the development of high quality eggs, with the parent fish kept in the College’s own natural still-water pond, through spawning, larvae-hatch and growth from the fry stage through to a three month old fish of about 2” – 3” in size. While some are retained on site the majority are then moved on to other fish farms or fisheries…
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