Fal Fishery Cooperative CIC
16th August 2020Latest ‘Press Release’ just published...
...how did they fund it when they didn’t receive any discretionary grant nor reach their stretch target you may ask...
Chris Ranger says “I can not deny it was a massive worry, I had been working on the ‘acquisition’ of the only available Aquaculture Site on the River Fal since November 2017... it really is the back bone of everything we plan to achieve with the CIC, yet we didn’t even have the funds to pay the deposit...”
Chris summarised the hectic two weeks from securing the loan to actually deploying the infrastructure as “like a military operation! Wednesday 5th August, World Oyster Day, seemed a poignant day to be laying the foundations for the new Native Oyster Aquaculture Research Site, but there was a strong southwesterly wind and a small low tide weather window... luckily it really was like a military operation, literally ex mod landing craft, WorkFloat, a tug boat brilliantly named ‘Nudgette’ and me in an oyster punt with a VHF, Navionics and series of coordinates from the trial run on Saturday 1st, when we also toasted a little ships rum to the site and all ESTER’s who grow there.”
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