20 Jun 2018

Salmon farming on West Coast hydro dam to start

From Morning Report, 8:52 am on 20 June 2018

A plan to develop salmon farming on a hydro dam on the South Island's West Coast had had the government sit up and take notice. The Greymouth fishing company Westfleet wants to have a commercial operation up and running within the next 18 months - and has already had trials on the dam. The government says it's a proposal finally beyond the rhetoric that's come from the Coast in the last decade. Tracy Neal has the story.