Fishing for wild salmon in British Columbia is what inspired famed Hollywood television writer and producer David E. Kelley to enter the aquaculture industry six years ago.
At the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California on 16 October, Kelley – who is the producer of TV shows such “Big Little Lies” and “Ally McBeal” – explained how he became founder and chairman of Riverence, a sustainable steelhead trout farming operation in Filer, Idaho, as well as a salmon and trout egg producer in Olympia, Washington.
“I really got into it [the aquaculture industry] as a fisherman,” Kelley told the audience at the Aquarium of the Pacific. “I was fishing in British Columbia and fell in love with the salmon. It really is a miracle fish. I think everyone knows the story of it: it’s a fish that grows in the river and swims to the ocean, and then brings all these nutrients back to the river, which feeds hundreds of species on land.”…
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