2011 forum industry update

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WV AQUACULTUREINDUSTRY UPDATE

Ken Semmens

2011 Aquaculture Forum

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You made it through another

Year!!!!


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WVU Aquaculture Extension

Dan Miller departs Matthew Ferrill arrives


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Disclaimer

This presentation features the things weknow about and thought worthwhile to

share with you. It is not complete. Wehope you will share your news with us.


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Ag Statistics Service

2009 NASS Trout Survey Total value of Trout sold in WV $ 1,562,000

Some information is not published to avoiddisclosure of individual operations.

Data collected each year on trout andcatfish

Aquaculture Census every 5 years.


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2009 West Virginia Statistics

Estimated live weight value of fish sold inWV for 2009 is $ 2,250,000

34 Fee Fishing Businesses

30 operations sell Trout

7 producers sell baitfish

7 producers sell catfish 8 fish processors have permits


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WV Aquaculture Association

President: Mike Nardella

Vice Pres: Tom Ort

Secretary: Rob Nichols

Treasurer: Ken Semmens

Board of Directors in 2010Jake Musick Mike Nardella Josh Hedrick

Tom Ort John Toney Bill Grantham


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DNR Fish production 2009/10

1,080,599 trout weighing 760,030 lb

748,549 pounds from 7 DNR hatcheries

11,481 lb from Federal Hatchery at WhiteSulphur Springs

Trout Number Tot Wt(lb)

Ave Wt(lb)

Rainbow 752,849 543,200 0.72

Golden 59,942 46,481 0.77

Brook 193,435 124,573 0.64

Brown 74,373 45,776 0.61


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Estimating Revenue/lb troutproduced by WV DNR

Resident Fishing ($18) B $1,565,208

Nonresident Fishing ($35) F $ 456,435subtotal $2,021,643

Resident Trout ($10) O $1,083,660

Nonresident Trout ($15) OO $ 233,070

subtotal $1,316730

Total $3,338,373

Trout stamp revenue/lb $ 1.76

Overall Revenue/lb $ 4.46


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DNR Warmwater fishproduction 2009/10

300,000 walleye fingerlings

215,000 hybrid striped bass

170,000 channel catfish

102,000 Largemouth Bass

66,000 Blue Catfish 50,000 Striped Bass

3,200 muskie

600 Paddlefish


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Whispering Pines

Closes after 11 years of operation.

Reopens with shorter hours, business is for sale.


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WVAAAg Day at State Capital.


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Aquaculture Development ActBecomes Law

It is, therefore, in the

state's interest and it isstate policy to

recognize aquacultureas agriculture and toencourage thedevelopment of

aquaculture in WestVirginia.


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Other Regulatory Milestones

New rules for land application of fish manurego into effect July 1.

Department of Agriculture chooses toparticipate in 2009 Aquaculture GrantProgram to compensate to aquacultureproducers for losses associated with highfeed input costs during the 2009 calendaryear.


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Aquatic Weed Control is a littleeasier.

West Virginia residents who have a pond in

West Virginia may purchase grass carpwithout an importation permit from in-statevendors.


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Farm Bureau NewsAquaculture Articles

Fishing for Solutions series of articles in theWV farm bureau magazine won the firstplace award in the 2010 American FarmBureau Federation Public Relationscompetition for the category Best Print

News or Feature Series for the under

80,000 membership category.


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Aquaculture Advisory Board

Steve Miller, Chair, WV Dept of Agriculture

Ken Semmens, Vice Chair, WVU Extension.

Bret Preston, WV DNR Renee Clevenger, WV DEP

Tom Ort, Mountaineer Trout Farm

Mike Nardella, Rainbowhead Farms Jody Ours,


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Aquaculture Advisory Board


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Senator Byrds passing.

Strong supporter of Aquaculture NCCCWA

Freshwater Institute

Aquaculture Product and Marketing Development Project at WVU Nation wide.


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Mountain MeadowGrant Co.

Recreational Fishing

Buying locally raised trout

Handicap accessible

Work with JoshHedrick to spawn

and rear fry.


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Trout Lodge & Anglers Resort

Production andprocessing of trout asfood fish.

Fresh and smoked fillets.

Also sell fish to therecreational market.

Purchase fish fromMountaineer Trout Farm

Jake Musick works toincrease number ofaccounts and sales.

New delivery vehiclein front of processing plant.


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Wilson Mill Farms

Products from Wilson Mill Farms arefeatured at this years aquaculture forum.

In September Jake Musick and Luis Marmolpart ways.

Business changes name from Trout Lodgeand Anglers Resort to Wilson Mill Farms.

Junior Pittman managing Wilson Mill Farms.


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Mountaineer Trout Farm, LLC

Largest private producer of Rainbow

Trout in WV.

Wholesale sales to processing plants

in and live haulers

Mine water quality influenced by

snow melt in the spring.

Second year that Tom Ort takes short

consulting job in Azerbeijan.


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Indian Lake FisheriesKanawha Co. Jeff Tinscher and Chris

Veltri

Fee Fishing business.

Supplier of harvestablesize Trout and Catfish

Able to haul largeamounts of fish

Now buying all trout from WV producers!


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Smokehole

Grows fish for the recreational market.

Spring originates and water flows across his property near a fee fishingpond and cabins used for lodging.

Plans for rebuilding gift shop after fire.


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Smokehole

Corps and EPA cease and

desist order for work in thestream remains.

Mitigation plan developed.

Proposal for modification of

small check dams.

Bizarre situation.

Appeal for convictioninterference with a

fisherman.

Submitted an appeal briefto the WV Supreme Court .

He believed he owned thefish. It was not willfulinterference of a fishermanif he believed they werehis property.


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Bill Miller applies for apermit to access water.

More than 6 months pass.. No response to his request from COE


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Elk Springs Fly Shop & Outfitters

Growing Brown and Rainbow trout

Guide Service, Orvis Authorized Fly Shop,Accommodations and food

Robert Lunceford replaces John Toney

www.elkspringsflyshop.com 304-339-2359
http://www.elkspringsflyshop.com/http://www.elkspringsflyshop.com/


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Recirculating System AvailableMingo and Logan Counties

Hatchery leased by Jonathan Browning,


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Rainbowhead FarmsHarrison, County

304-783-5025

Full line of fish for stockingponds.

Now a distributor forPowerhouse aerators.


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Sugar Grove Trophy Trout Farm:Jerry Bartley

Fish Wagon


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Fish Wagon

Events in Middleway, WV

Feast on the Farm: 4 events in Jefferson Co.Trout supplied by Virginia Trout Company

More events planned for 2011

by Bill Grantham: 304-261-2054


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Reducing Feed Cost

Don Anderson buys feed by the truckload and resells with amodest markup. Recently switched supplier from Melick to Zeigler.

New feed distributor- Tim Cocharan,Yellow Springs Farm Storenow carries Zeigler Feeds.


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Divergent Natural InterestsKanawha Co. 304-598-7117

Full line of fish for stockingponds.

Many products

Timber Ginseng Cattle

Center for sustainableResources.

Multi-use pond concept firstpresented at Hays FarmField Day in September.

Fred Hays bagging fish


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Multi use pond design


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Critical Features

Key difference is in the drain structure(s)which provide management options.

Able to drain the pond completely and keepthe pond empty so it can dry.

Capacity to store water and use it asneeded.

Discharge from the pond takes advantage ofhead pressure.


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TransEnergy builds ponds tocapture surface water.

Well designed, drainable.Water available for drilling gas wells.


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Perry Keatons Pond

2.6 Acre pond, 10 ft rise overnight in early December.

1500 acre watershed.


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Norwegians look at watersources in the area

Norwegians interestedin developing a largerecirculating system in

the northeastern UStoured WV and PA tolook at waterresources. They were

assisted by WVU andthe FreshwaterInstitute.

Visiting Mountaineer Trout Farm


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What is causing this green film?

Euglena, McWirt Pond August 30, 2010

The Fishtales newsletter has


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The Fishtales newsletter hascarried many of these stories.

http://aquaculture.ext.wvu.edu/

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