Why did I not think of that? You’re a genius!
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This is what we use to identify brood stock :
https://www.nmt.us/visible-implant-elastomer/FDA be having a bit of a fit if we sold those fish......
our problem is that the government will be requiring not just COOL, but full traceability for every fish coming through a processing plant. Thing is, we’ll get fingerlings or fry from different sources, both domestic and overseas, depending on the time of year (spawning season is opposite down under, for example), but those fish end up getting mixed in a tank or raceway when the tops of one cohort catches the bottoms of the previous cohort. We end up with a couple of thousand runts that need a little more time to finish, so they get combined so they don’t take up a full raceway.
Then, when those fish go to the processing plant, for example, they get pushed through the plant with loads from three or four other farm sites, and those fish get sorted by size to fill a particular order. Out of a 20,000 lb processing day, there may be orders that need fish from all the shipments to have enough, and a few from the previous day. The very concept is beyond idiotic. Unmanageable on the farm, unmanageable in the plant. But, here we go.........
