{"id":12953,"date":"2016-05-18T08:03:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/hatchery-recirculation-workshop-scheduled\/"},"modified":"2016-05-18T08:03:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:03:21","slug":"hatchery-recirculation-workshop-scheduled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/hatchery-recirculation-workshop-scheduled\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatchery recirculation workshop scheduled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SITKA \u2014<\/strong> Earlier this spring, Fish Tech Professor Jim Seeland, Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems, and Douglas Island Pink and Chum partnered to host a recirculation workshop to better inform Alaska fish culturists on how recirculation can be used as a technique to use water more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s becoming tougher to find new water sources, but there is still a desire to produce more,\u201d Seeland said.<\/p>\n<p>Salmon spend much of their lives in salt water oceans but their most crucial life stages \u2014 egg, fry and parr \u2014 need freshwater.<\/p>\n<p>Recirculation within a hatchery allows the water to be used an infinite number of times allowing hatcheries to rear more fish without consuming more water.<\/p>\n<p>Seeland saw a void for training in recirculation for fish culturists in the state and worked with Pentair, a global supplier for recirculation technology, and DIPAC, a corporation that manages two hatcheries in the Juneau region, to develop curriculum for a workshop that would be relevant to Alaskans.<\/p>\n<p>Angie Bowers, director of aquaculture at the Sheldon Jackson hatchery in Sitka, attended, and helped to run the workshop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presenters were awesome,\u201d said Bowers.<\/p>\n<p>While the Sheldon Jackson hatchery already uses recirculation for some things, there are other ways Bower says it could be incorporated into the operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow a hatchery could use recirculation is different for every site. Here, we could use recirculation to improve water quality because during certain times of the year the river water carries a large number of suspended solids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SITKA \u2014 Earlier this spring, Fish Tech Professor Jim Seeland, Pentair Aquatic Eco-Systems, and Douglas Island Pink and Chum partnered to host a recirculation workshop to better inform Alaska fish culturists on how recirculation can be used as a technique to use water more efficiently. \u201cIt\u2019s becoming tougher to find new water sources, but there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12953"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}