Investment Analysis of Commercial Aquaculture in Central Canada

Data were gathered from cooperating aquaculturists to provide a basis forcost benefit analysis of the commercial aquaculture industry in Ontario. Results showed the aquaculturists to be vulnerable to unforeseen marketforces and that they are turning profits back into their enterprises at arapid rate, presumably to increase their equity ot reduce short-runfinancial vulnerability. All aquaculturists in the study expressed plansto continue in the business.