Shrimp Farm in Bonaire

Gerard Geertjes geertjes at bonairenet.com
Fri Aug 27 21:30:50 EDT 1999


The effluent of the shrimp farm at Bonaire is directed straight into the
evaporation ponds of the Bonaire solar salt works. No pollutants are dumped
in the coastal zone.


Gerard J. Geertjes
Groningen University
Department of Marine Biology
Kaya Dorado 12, Bonaire
Netherlands Antilles
geertjes at bonairenet.com
phone: + 599 7 5879
fax: + 599 7 2595

-----Original Message-----
From: Oceanwatch at aol.com <Oceanwatch at aol.com>
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Date: Friday, August 27, 1999 4:57 PM
Subject: Shrimp Farm in Bonaire


>Coral Listers
>
>I recently heard about a shrimp aquaculture project on Bonaire.  Does
anyone
>know about this project, i.e., if any permits or controls were imposed that
>might prevent the kind of physical damage or release of pollutants into the
>coastal zone that are associated with shrimp farming?
>
>thanks
>Cliff McCreedy
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