Facts About Grimsby

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THE Lake Harvest Aquaculture 700 workforce include management, micro-biologists and other scientists, down to fish-gutters, cleaners and sweepers and even 18 fully trained deep-water divers under Divemaster Tawedzera Bvunzawabaya. Kitted out in short, thin, wet suits (Kariba water is always warm) they inspect every square centimetre of the net cages at least twice a week. Routine maintenance and repairs are carried out on site and divers report if a major repair is needed, warranting the cage being towed back to land. At 4pm on March 13, a violent marine storm dramatically hit the lake. One of the cages broke off its moorings and tore badly on a steel buoy.  It was too dangerous to attempt to repair until the next day. Much to the delight of the local avaricious tigerfish population (and the angling fraternity) 70% of the bream escaped. That’s about 100 000 fish weighing approximately 300g each at that stage (and worth US$2,5 a kg.) There is virtually no waste. Even the guts of the fish are handed on to a local church for them to extract fish oil for resale. Scraps, head, tails, scales and other nasty looking bits and bobs go to the company’s adjoining crocodile ranch. They produce 5 000 wet-salted skins a year out of an animal population of 25 000, nearly all exported to Singapore via an agent in RSA. More facts and figures: 40% of total production is immediately exported to Zambia, where they prefer  fish whole and ungutted; 40% is for the domestic market, filleted skin-on; skin-off; whole gutted.  The balance is flown to South Africa, DRC, Botswana, Mozambique and the UK (where every fish is exclusively supplied to blue-chip Waitrose supermarket chain.) Solid markets have unfortunately been lost in France, Belgium, Holland, Germany etc due to Zimbabwe’s pariah-nation status. “Third World Groupies and NGOs” once boycotted Waitrose demanding to know why they were selling expensive Zimbabwean grown fish when “millions of Zimbabweans were starving”. A meeting was quickly convened, facts explained; boycott lifted!

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