Tourism industry and conservationists oppose Cermaq’s plan to dump one million litres of pesticide in Clayoquot Sound – a vital feeding ground for grey whales. Read more from CTV News.
Land based fish farming is well underway and gaining momentum. Canada can join leaders like Iceland and transition open net pen fish farms out of BC coastal waters by 2025. Read more from Salmon Business.
Countries around the world are already moving to land based closed containment aquaculture. Read more on BBC Business. (Photo: Atlantic Sapphire/BBC)
“Letters signed by Mayor Andy Adams to provincial and federal elected officials were drafted, and further edited, by John Paul Fraser, of the BC Salmon Farmers’ Association.” Read full article here.
Salmon fisheries threaten B.C.’s wild salmon. We have one last chance to save them. Read the full Globe and Mail Opinion piece. Opinion_ Salmon fisheries threaten B.C.’s wild salmon. We have one last chance to save them – The Globe and Mail
CANADALAND article exposes SeaWestNews as The Salmon-Farm Industry’s Propagandistic “News Site” with Jesse Brown hosting CANADALAND Podcast – “Fake News from Fish Farms”.
Wild First applauds Karen Wristen, executive director of Living Oceans Society for her efforts to correct ongoing misinformation about the transition to land-based closed containment fish farms. In her response to a recent opinion piece in the Province from John Paul Fraser, director of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association, Wristen rightly states that “the table is set” for this transition—and […]
The effects of open net pen fish farms on wild Pacific salmon have been well-researched and documented for decades. Open net pen fish farm companies have had extensive notice that a transition to modern sustainable aquaculture, through land based closed containment, was coming. Timeline In 2012, Mr. Justice Cohen concluded that: ….net-pen salmon farming in the […]