There are good fundamental reasons that mean copper prices won't come down in the near term. A series of potential supply disruptions have not resulted in the loss of much metal, but with stocks falling at a time when demand usually picks up, no one will (sell) it. |
There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in. |
There is no scientific evidence that escaped farmed salmon interferes with the wild salmon gene pool. Wild salmon have been breeding for thousands of years and have survived. Farmed salmon have been bred for 30 years and it is unlikely that they are going to overpower the wild salmon gene pool. We are not in business to let salmon escape; our business depends on keeping them in the cages. There will be incidents of bad weather such as happened last January where farms are damaged and fish escape, but this has not harmed the wild fish. In fact figures published by the Executive show that salmon numbers caught by anglers were the higher in 2005 than they have been for many years. |
They're suspended on a system of ropes, so catch the waste before it reaches the seabed. As we harvest them, they're tested to see how much of the waste nutrients they're absorbing. The seaweed is there to absorb dissolved nutrients and the shellfish to dispose of particles. |
We've long been aware of the environmental responsibilities you've got when you're in this kind of business. We only feed the salmon shrimp meal, and as far as stocking density's concerned, only one per cent of the volume of the cage is fish. |