Conference on freshwater farming

COMMERCIAL freshwater farming in Ireland is a modern €5 million industry producing a range of fish for the domestic and European consumer.

That’s the view of IFA Aquaculture, which is organising the first all-island national conference for these fish producers at the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone on September 30.

It recalled that the first ever fish farms in Ireland were specially created trout ponds used by castles and monasteries in the middle ages as handy fresh food larders.