Hatchery manager continues pot-scrubber crusade

摘要

A serious problem may be emerging for fish hatcheries in the United States, according to Al Barney, hatchery manager with the Nisqually Tribal Hatchery in Olympia, Washington. It's due to increasingly restrictive regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning the chemicals that may be used to treat water for fish farming.Barney, who has been in the aquaculture business since the 1980s, told Hatchery International that he's convinced that if the agency continues down its present path, it will be nearly impossible for salmon- and other fish hatcheries to operate because of the ever-tightening rules on what chemicals may be used for treating fungus on salmonid eggs, and the fish themselves.