Dear Gil, When I was in Toowoomba Cheryl, Hamish and I were wondering what to eat. A local vendor truck had prawns for sale and I fixed up a stir-fry therefrom. Prawns are like big shrimp. They are huge. Delicious, even if we couldn't find the sorts of spices used in south Louisiana. But raising prawns inland in what amounts to ditches dug in the field and filled with water is do-able. It is being done. The shrimp farmers in Texas has some problems with a disease--something they didn't understand. I don't know where they are now. But in general these things are do-able. I've got 19 other projects to being to completion first, but prawns are on my list.
Best, Hugh >Hugh Lovel wrote: How we will restore the fisheries of the world is a world >problem, as you point out. I happen to like eating fish, so I'm very >concerned. >I grew up near the coast of Louisiana where the fishing was great and the >pollution even better. I'm looking at how to grow fresh water prawns on my >farm >in north Georgia, but that's a personal solution only. Global solutions >may grow >out of personal solutions, since personal solutions pave the way. If I stop >buying fish and start growing some alternative, the question is half >addressed. >The other half? The global half? It is times like these when "the system" >comes >down around our ears that everyone is piqued to question, and the >opportunities >for growth occur. Do you have any ideas, brother? > >Hi! Hugh and the List. > >I think you raise an important aspect self sufficiency/ survival:- "I'm >looking >at how to grow fresh water prawns on my farm in north Georgia," > >As one trying to use Permaculture principles on my property, I too like >the idea >of providing some amount of sea food for at least my own use. I live in a >major >fishing/ aquaculture centre, which is aimed almost entirely on export to >premium >markets, resulting in little of the catch sold locally and that which is, >is at >premium prices. > >Hugh, back at about the same time as you published the first two articles what >you then called the Cosmic Pipe, in Acres USA. There was a feature on two men >near, I think Austin Texas, who used bore water to grow sea water Shrimp, some >three hundred miles from the sea. At that time they were a year or two into it >and seemed to be going well. Do you have any later information of them? > >To the List:- Is anyone grown fish/ shellfish/ prawns on their property? I >have >wondered if one could use the Preps in Aquaculture? I am only doing our native >"Yabbie". a fresh water crayfish which grows to about seven to eight >inches long >and has a good amount of meat in the tail. Mine are in a farm dam and look >after >them selves and I just catch a feed when I want one. A friend is experimenting >with "Marram" a larger and more commercial fresh water crayfish from SW >Western >Australia. He is preparing to sell his current business and I may be getting >involved with water quality etc. > >Gil Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
