Transcript – Canaqua Seafoods Limited in Advocate Harbour, Nova Scotia

Interview with Krista Webster
CanAqua Seafoods Ltd.
2m15s

[Indoors]

“…Krista Webster and this is CanAqua Seafoods Limited. …Aquaculture here is pretty much the livelihood - if not just this facility, but the harbour.  Everybody around here is pretty much a fisherman. When this place started, it was just the dome.  We had four tanks of fish. And then… every, you know, six months - a year, we put in a couple of more, a couple of more, and it just kept building.”

[Various scenes outside]

[In tank] “This is one of the 50-footer tanks that is part of the AIMAP program that enables us to grade the halibut a lot easier.”

“We net the fish onto the trough that puts them down on the conveyer belt and we have different rollers set at different settings to adjust the fish so the first one is for the smaller fish, the second’s for the medium, the third is for the large.  So, the thicker the fish, the farther they go down the conveyer belt and once they go into an exact…that’s sitting off to the side where they’re graded, we put them in their own tanks.  Smalls will go in one tank, the mediums in another, large in another.  And we will put as many fish in as their sizes go to keep their densities at a certain level.  And, the 50-footers, these tanks are easier for us because we can put more fish in them - more fish at a time to help grade them so we can grade a larger amount at one time.”

[Feeding Fish]

[Text on screen] CanAqua Seafoods Ltd., Advocate Harbour, NS