Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corp. is contributing $50,000 for research of environmental monitoring techniques to aid the expansion of cage-based aquaculture in the Great Lakes. Cage-based farms produce 3,000 tonnes of fish and generated an estimated 106 person-years of employment in 1999. The Aquaculture Centre at the University of Guelph, in partnership with North Wind Fisheries and the Ontario Aquaculture Association, will invest $71,600 for the development of practical and improved methods for measuring the effects the submersible fish production systems have on water-quality change in the Great Lakes.
