“It’s been a strange year for everyone, but these fish farmers may have found a silver lining in 2020.
With COVID-19 changing the demands for young fish to be raised and sold in grocery stores, this Durham trout hatchery has changed how they do business.
Now, instead of selling millions of young ‘fingerling’ trout to net farms in Georgian Bay, RJ Taylor and his sister Arlen are raising fish for local dinner plates…”
Related
Items
Articles
In the news
Springhills’ Arlen Taylor named one of world’s top 10 fish hatchery professionals
As if managing five complex hatcheries is not enough, Arlen Taylor also serves as the go-to person for other farms that run into occasional troubles, be it another trout hatchery nearby,...
Articles
In the news
Videos
Springhills on Wandering Grey Bruce [VIDEO]
Covid brought a lot of hard days to our farms, but it also gave us a new opportunity to start bringing tasty and sustainable fish to door-steps throughout Ontario!...
Articles
In the news
Springhills on CBC News
We’re so excited and honoured that Andrew Coppolino from CBC Kitchener-Waterloo stopped by to talk local fish, food production and sustainability! “Before the pandemic, roughly 90 per cent of...
