The Upper South Y9 and Y10 students visited the Te Pangu Salmon Farm in the Tory Channel on Wednesday 12 May as part of their work place excursion.

The New Zealand King Salmon company is a pioneer in marine salmon farming in New Zealand, utilising King Salmon stock introduced from California over 100 years ago.

They have been growing and selling King Salmon to consumers in New Zealand and overseas for over 30 years and are the largest producer of farmed King Salmon in the world,  supplying more that 50% of the world’s King Salmon.

The students thoroughly enjoyed the trip out to the farm, seeing dolphins and seals along the way.  They found the explanation on how the farm is run and monitored very interesting and was surprised to find out that there are 850,000 salmon in the pens at the farm.

A big thank you to the parents who accompanied the students from Nelson and the West Coast. 

A special shout out to Anthony and Susannah Fisher who provided a tasty hot lunch back at school to all the hungry boys and girls after the trip.

Mr de Beer