Barramundi farm in the UK.

[Steve Coppolo]

I read the other day that Barramundi is being farmed in the New Forest. Apparently the fish farm owner now has enough Barra to start supplying restuarants. This could be great news for Bass because the Barramudi is set to take over as the new "fashionable" fish to eat in restuarants. The taste is said to be fantastic.

[Dan]

More here: http://www.aquab.com/barramundi.html all hell will break lose when they eventually get into the rivers, will do the Avon no good at all!!

 

Dan

[argyll]

We did this one last year but worth a repeat. You know that eventually they are going to 'escape' into the system. All just a matter of time.

[habilis]

Not is the farmer plants them deep enough they won't.

[Vagabond]

Our waters are probably too cold for them - but one or two escapees up the lower Itchen might eat a lotta grayling before hypothermia set in

 

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[Sharkbyte]

Even if they do escape, providing they carry no diseases or parasites to harm our native fishes I doubt they will have any great impact. Remember Zander were set to decimate our inland fisheries according to many and instead have provided just another exciting species to add to our list of quarry.

[Steve Walker]

Even if they do escape, providing they carry no diseases or parasites to harm our native fishes I doubt they will have any great impact. Remember Zander were set to decimate our inland fisheries according to many and instead have provided just another exciting species to add to our list of quarry.

 

 

We were lucky with zander. Consider nile perch in Lake Victoria(or rabbits, rats, cats, goats, etc in other terrestrial habitats).

[five bellies]

We were lucky with zander. Consider nile perch in Lake Victoria(or rabbits, rats, cats, goats, etc in other terrestrial habitats).

 

 

I am certianly no biologist but could they be Tripliod Like a lot of stocked trout are these days or is that a trait unique to salmanids. would ease a lot of worries on the enviromental front.

[Ken Davison South Wales]

all hell will break lose when they eventually get into the rivers

They probably will have already.

 

Our waters are probably too cold for them - but one or two escapees up the lower Itchen might eat a lotta grayling before hypothermia set in

 

Hi Dave, I cannot see this operation heating enough water to keep a commercial eating stock alive, what do you think seems very unlikely the fish would hit the plate at about the same price as caviar per oz.

[Norm B]

More here: http://www.aquab.com/barramundi.html all hell will break lose when they eventually get into the rivers, will do the Avon no good at all!!

 

Dan

Put them in lakes in the south and it just might make coarse angling a little bit more interesting.

If they breed then so much the better, no problem in a lake, maybe.

Edited January 21, 2006 by Norm B