Springhills’ Arlen Taylor named one of world’s top 10 fish hatchery professionals

As if managing five complex hatcheries is not enough, Arlen Taylor also serves as the go-to person for other farms that run into occasional troubles, be it another trout hatchery nearby, a barramundi RAS farm or a net-pen operation. In her spare time, Taylor also acts as industry lead for various government and non-government entities, including the committee writing the Code of Practice for the Care and Handling of Farmed Fish in Canada.

“You could say that trout farming runs in my blood,” says the 32-year-old director of operations at Cedar Crest Farms in Hanover, Ontario, Canada.

Taylor’s father was a pioneer in establishing one of the first land-based trout farms in central Canada. She and her brother, RJ, grew up in a hatchery, spending most of their childhood feeding, moving and caring for fish.

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