Closed system pilot ready to go according to Marine Harvest

Courier-Islander Staff
December 24, 2009
Courier-Islander

There's more detail about Marine Harvest's hopes for a closed containment pilot project.

Managing director Vincent Erenst, confirms the company hasn't formally applied for government funding for the project, but that's because they haven't found government programs "where we could formally apply and where we would have a chance of success."

In a presentation to Campbell River city council earlier this month, Erenst said the company was working towards a pilot study but "so far we've not been able to convince either the feds or the province to support us in this."

"So far, we have been trying to get some help in the order of 30 to 40 per cent of our investment, and we have not succeeded," he said. "We are definitely willing to do a trial. We have it basically designed. We are ready."

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