The Fish Project

Alfred Boehme · November 19, 2009, 02:41:03 PM

Fish project underway at Oranjemund

first 5 pic's construction phase
last 5 pic's ready for fish

Perlemoen and Ousters will be held in these tanks, maybe we can get the project leader tell us more will speak to him sometime

Alfred Boehme · November 19, 2009, 02:42:48 PM

A few more

Alfred Boehme · November 19, 2009, 02:44:43 PM

more

John Creedy · November 19, 2009, 03:34:04 PM

Where is this? Location?
Thanks

Alfred Boehme · November 19, 2009, 05:40:34 PM

At one of the old dam's next to the sea in the mine

Michael Alexander · November 19, 2009, 06:07:22 PM

Great stuff Alfie, you have just been promoted to head reporter at Omund Online.....

On the serious side
The only downside of this, is that it is not labour intensive.... well not enough to sustain Omund's future....

SandyB · November 19, 2009, 08:43:28 PM

So somethings moving ... Good ...

Andrew Darné · November 19, 2009, 08:57:42 PM

Yes, the water in the tanks... the oysters and perlies are a bit slow...

It's a pilot project to see if this is viable around here. Imagine if it were conducted in "open" or town area; then along comes proclamation... Headline news men arrested for perlemoen poaching on farm

Neat setup they got going there...

Gerda Cloete · November 20, 2009, 09:03:45 AM

I believe my good friend Thys de Wet built it.... Goeie werk Thys.

Michael Alexander · November 20, 2009, 09:06:34 AM

Ja, Thys..... he told me he would be leaving Oranjemund soon forever...... a longtime Oranjemunder.... however there might be a glimmer of hope, as there might still be a project or two ffor him to work on early next year....

Here's to fingers crossed!~

Michael Alexander · November 30, 2009, 10:49:33 AM

I wonder if the Yacht club pan could be used for fish farming?

Andrew Darné · November 30, 2009, 10:10:12 PM

Unfortunately not without a lot of capital.
A whole bunch of guru's were here a couple of years ago, make that 2 or 3 different crowds, to check out the Yacht pan for farming fish, oysters, seahorses and I can't recall what else.
The responses that came back via the grapevine were not of a supporting nature in terms of sustainability options.

Promising idea though, would have great implications for the Yacht Club if it were feasable... then we would have to import sailors to stock the pan with... mmm, think about that one.