 |
Visit our Aquaculture Forum |
|
|
|
|
| Be notified of updates to this page |
| powered by ChangeDetection |
Canadian stories 
Alexandra Morton - blog - December 18, 2011
Marine Harvest Pleads Guilty
As people from the Broughton Archipelago, where the crimes occurred, Alert Bay, Sointula, and Port Hardy looked on Marine Harvest pleaded guilty to charges related to illegal possession of wild fish.
Full
text
Sean Sullivan, The Province - December 18, 2011
Last day of hearings on dwindling B.C. salmon stocks to focus on deadly virus
On Friday, the commission heard that scientists who identified ISAv in wild salmon - Fred Kiberge, a world expert on ISA at the University of Prince Edward Island, and Kristi Miller, who runs a DFO molecular genetics research lab - have felt ostracized and under attack since making waves with their research.
Full
text
Damien Gillis, The Common Sense Canadian - December 17, 2011
Winning the Salmon PR 'War'? Emails Reveal Government Scientists Acting Like Flacks
Among the bombshell revelations that emerged from the first of three extra days for the Commission - added recently to address the discovery of ISA virus in wild BC salmon - were the confirmation that ISA virus (or something very similar) is undoubtedly here in BC, and has likely been for at least 25 years; and Miller’s own detection of a new deadly virus in both farmed and wild salmon.
Full
text
Damien Gillis, The Common Sense Canadian - December 16, 2011
Kristi Miller Steals Show Again as Salmon Inquiry Rocked by New Virus Bombshells
Among the bombshell revelations that emerged from the first of three extra days for the Commission - added recently to address the discovery of ISA virus in wild BC salmon - were the confirmation that ISA virus (or something very similar) is undoubtedly here in BC, and has likely been for at least 25 years; and Miller’s own detection of a new deadly virus in both farmed and wild salmon.
Full
text
Alaska Native News - December 1, 2011
Canada Covers Up the Presence of Salmon Virus on the West Coast
The main reason would be that if the presence of the virus was confirmed in the West Coast waters, the Canadian government would have no choice to report that presence to the World Organization for Animal Health.
Full
text
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - November 7, 2011
Salmon hearing participants clash openly in final submissions
The Conservation Coalition, which represents several environmental groups, said the failure of science to answer 'fundamental questions about the reasons for the decline of Fraser sockeye,' should not be a reason for inaction.
Full
text
Alexandra Morton, Blog - November 7, 2011
The history of ISA virus in BC
In response to the 2009 Intrafish article a group of scientists in Canada co-signed a letter to the Minister of Fisheries (Gail Shea) asking her to close the border to Atlantic salmon eggs.
Full
text
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - November 4, 2011
Discovery of lethal fish virus in B.C. sockeye prompts special inquiry session
A federal inquiry into the decline of sockeye salmon in British Columbia will reconvene next month for a special two day session to hear evidence concerning the apparent discovery of an Atlantic fish virus on the West Coast.
Full
text
Darrell Bellaart, Daily News - November 2, 2011
First Nations fearful of B.C. salmon disaster
A salmon virus identified in the central B.C. coast has reportedly now been found in Fraser River salmon, fueling Nanaimo First Nations fears of a looming disaster with B.C. salmon.
Full
text
The Fish Site - November 2, 2011
Transporting Salmon Without Infections Or Lice
The newly developed well-boat concept is packed with innovative technology that will ensure easy cleaning and prevent releases of potentially infectious water from the wells.
Full
text
Vancouver Councillor Geoff Meggs - November 1, 2011
Fish Farms in BC
Alexandra Morton, Blog - October
29, 2011
Pestilence loosed upon BC
The
New York Times did what I was not allowed to do - tell
you there has been a second diagnosis of Infectious Salmon
Anemia virus in wild BC salmon, this time in the Fraser River
itself, the biggest wild salmon river in the world.
Full
text
Clare Leschin-Hoar, Grist - October
12, 2011
Report warns of offshore fish farming dangers
Consumer
advocacy group Food & Water Watch released a new report today
criticizing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
for its aquaculture policy, which they say is promoting factory
fish farming in offshore waters.
Full text
Clare Leschin-Hoar, Grist - September 20, 2011
Feds help GMO salmon swim upstream
. . . the woman tasked by DFO to use leading-edge genomic research to get to the bottom of the sockeye mystery showed she may actually be figuring it out.
Full text
Damien Gillis, The Common Sense Canadian - September 20, 2011
Why Cohen Matters: Salmon Inquiry's Many Benefits
. . . the woman tasked by DFO to use leading-edge genomic research to get to the bottom of the sockeye mystery showed she may actually be figuring it out.
Full text
Evan Duggan, Vancouver Sun - September 16, 2011
Seal, sea lion kills by salmon farms rise with population
Fisheries and Oceans Canada is reporting publicly, for the first time, the number of sea lions and seals killed at B.C.’s salmon farms as farmers attempt to protect their fish.
Full text
Ray Grigg, Courier-Islander - September 16, 2011
The Sockeye Salmon Murder Mystery
In 1992, the salmon farms were placed on the Fraser sockeye migration route, and the Fraser sockeye went into steep decline.
Full text
D.C. Reid, Times Colonist - September 6, 2011
Hell to pay for letting ISA virus into the Pacific
In 1992, the salmon farms were placed on the Fraser sockeye migration route, and the Fraser sockeye went into steep decline.
Full text
Alexandra Morton - August 30, 2011
Here's why I think salmon farms are gatekeepers to Fraser sockeye survival
In 1992, the salmon farms were placed on the Fraser sockeye migration route, and the Fraser sockeye went into steep decline.
Full text
Alexandra Morton, Pacific Free Press - August 26, 2011
Following Cohen - Day 4 Salmon Hearings
Today we learned that a single salmon farm with 1,000,000 fish can shed 60 billion viral particles per hour during a disease outbreak.
Full text
Sam Taxy, Care2 - August 26, 2011
Farmed Fish and Sea Lice Endanger Wild Salmon Stocks
Until this research was conducted, the aquaculture industry had been touting a flawed study using incorrect timetables that showed no correlation between the presence of lice and any harm to the wild fish.
Full text
Canadian Press - August 25, 2011
DFO scientist says Privy Council silenced her
A fisheries scientist says she believes senior officials close to the prime minister prevented her from talking to the media about her research into the 2009 sockeye salmon collapse in B.C.
Full text
Canadian Press - August 20, 2011
Salmon inquiry to probe fish farms and disease
After months of hearings in relative obscurity, the public inquiry into the decline of sockeye along British Columbia's fabled Fraser River is finally bound to grab some headlines.
Full text
Alexandra Morton, The Mark - August 19, 2011
Government is Muzzling Scientists ... Again
The Privy Council is squelching discussions of research indicating the harmful impacts of salmon farms.
Full text
Pacific Free Press - August 12, 2011
Farmed Salmon Confidential: (Part 2) The Cover-up
Numerous instances from the past several years reveal a pattern of salmon farmers resisting transparency when it comes to disease and parasite monitoring - and the excuse often given is severe financial damage to the companies involved.
Full text
Pacific Free Press - August 7, 2011
Farmed Salmon Confidential (Part 1): ISA and the Cohen Commission
Largely thanks to the Cohen Commission into collapsing Fraser River sockeye stocks, significant new information has been trickling out over the past year, which – when one assembles the pieces of the puzzle – reveals a coordinated cover-up by the industry of this damaging information, aided by both the BC and Canadian governments.
Full text
Crawford Kilian, The Hook - July 28, 2011
Federal scientists' union protests 'muzzling' of salmon researcher
The union representing federal scientists has protested the 'muzzling' of a respected salmon researcher by the Privy Council Office.
Full text
Margaret Munro, Postmedia News - July 26, 2011
Feds silence scientist over West Coast salmon study
Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada's West Coast
Full text
Fish Update - July 18, 2011
US to release large areas of coast for fish farming
The United States is to open up large areas of its coastline to fish farming in an effort to reduce its huge seafood import bill.
Full text
Ed Schoenfeld, CoastAlaska - July 18, 2011
Study: Genetically modified salmon can breed with wild fish
'I think the B.C. salmon-farming industry is under such heavy assault right now that they wouldn’t dare mention wanting to use genetically modified fish,' says Alexandra Morton, a marine biologist in British Columbia and a leading critic of fish farming’s impacts on wild salmon runs.
Full text
Ray Grigg, Courier-Islander - July 15, 2011
Infectious Salmon Anemia: A Ticking Time Bomb?
The Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAv) is a ticking time bomb that could explode under BC's salmon farming industry and their open net-pens.
Full text
FIS Canada - July 7, 2011
New offshore aquaculture bill seeks to protect oceans
This bill would unprecedentedly set a thorough regulatory structure for offshore fish farming development while adopting a balanced approach to address environmental, social and economic issues.
Full text
CTV - July 6, 2011
Unique fish farm aims to dash environmental concerns
The people behind Canada's first closed-containment fish farm are hoping the $14-million pilot project will address some of the most serious environmental concerns about aquaculture.
Full text
Fish Farmer - July 1, 2011
United States unveils new fish farming growth plan
The United States has just unveiled a new policy aquaculture to increase seafood production and create jobs.
Full text
SELENA ROSS, Nova Scota Chronicel Herald - June 26, 2011
Researchers try to raise salmon indoors
Pilot project aims to reduce impact of fish farms.
Full text
CBC News - June 24, 2011
Port Medway salmon farm protested
Three men in Queens County were ready to lie down in front of trucks bringing in thousands of juvenile fish to be put into a salmon farm in the Medway River system Friday.
Full text
The Independent (UK) - June 19, 2011
Led by China, fish farms soaring: study
The study called for further study on how supermarket chains, particularly in emerging Asian nations, can improve environmental performance in the farmed fish they bring to consumers.
Full text
Mobile Press-Register - June 17, 2011
Offshore fish farms promoted by NOAA officials; opponents say plan leaves many issues unresolved
Leonard said the biggest failure in the government’s aquaculture plan was that it doesn’t do enough to protect the nation’s waters from the problems that have plagued other countries.
Full text
New York Times - June 16, 2011
House Moves to Ban Modified Salmon
In a potential blow to the future of the biotech industry, a handful of House lawmakers voted last night to bar the Food and Drug Administration from approving any bioengineered salmon for mass consumption.
Full text
FIS Canada - May 30, 2011
'Organic' label for farmed fish inadequate: green groups
Over 50 organisations, businesses and fishers from across Canada and the US have submitted a joint letter to the Canadian General Standards Board opposing proposed draft Organic Standards for Finfish Aquaculture.
Full text
Julia Prinselaar, Westerly News - May 26, 2011
New Clayoquot fish farm proposal prompts call for moratorium on net-cage tenures
An alliance for aquaculture reform is calling on the province to place a moratorium on net-cage license tenures for aquaculture following an application by Mainstream Canada for a new salmon farm site in Clayoquot Sound.
Full text
Dan Maclennan, Courier-Islander - May 13, 2011
C.R.-based closed-containment project impresses CAAR members
AgriMarine's unique closed-containment chinook farm just north of Campbell River is an important step in the right direction, said members of the Coastal Alliance on Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) after a tour of the facility this week.
Full text
Louis Bergeron, Stanford University News - April 7, 2011
For coastal fish farm waste, dilution is not an automatic solution, Stanford researchers say
Stanford researchers have developed a highly detailed computer simulation that will help find suitable sites for aquaculture and help monitor any plumes of waste wafting through the waters.
Full text
The Fish Site - March 22, 2011
Promoting Organic Fisheries and Aquaculture
At Boston Seafood 2011, Naturland, promotes organic fish farming throughout the world.
Full text
Andrew A Duffy, Timescolonist.com - February 25, 2011
Siblings snare tech prize for fish waste idea
Roulston said the waste is run through various filters, fed to a number of types of plankton which are then "pelletized" and fed back to the fish.
Full text
Sarah Schmidt, Postmedia News - February 24, 2011
Climate change the most serious risk to aquaculture: study
The present study run by the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) showed that shrimp farmers perceived too much rain, high temperature, canal/river/sea level rise, irregular weather and storms as their most serious concerns regarding monetary losses.
Full text
Sarah Schmidt, Postmedia News - February 23, 2011
GE salmon could harm our fish stocks: scientists
Internal records obtained by Postmedia News also indicate experts from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans are concerned about 'limited' and possibly 'constrained' regulatory powers around the approvals for GE fish.
Full text
Andrew Flitcroft, The Observer - February 20, 2011
You're so wrong about salmon, Mr Salmond
The implications of increasing significantly, let alone doubling, farmed salmon production in Scotland are terrifying
Full text
David Suzuki with Faisal Moola, Canoe - January 25, 2011
Struggling with salmon farming and sustainability
If we continue to farm salmon, we must continue to find substitute feed sources that don’t lead to the depletion of other fish stocks.
Full text
News EU - January 25, 2011
Wrasse used to combat salmon lice
The wrasse are transferred to the sea cages and eat the sea lice on the farmed salmon, avoiding the need to use chemicals to delouse the salmon.
Full text
Pacific Free Press - January 21, 2011
Global State of Salmon Feedlots
While the politics of salmon feedlots are murky, it is clear they have altered the biology of coastlines worldwide.
Full text
CBC News - January 17, 2011
Closed-pen salmon farm launches in B.C.
The first of four tanks to be used in a commercial-scale salmon-farming operation has been placed in the water of Middle Bay in Campbell River, B.C., Vancouver-based AgriMarine Holdings Inc. and the Middle Bay Sustainable Aquaculture Institute announced Monday.
Full text
Dan MacLennan, Courier-Islander - January 14, 2011
Massive closed-containment tank is in the water
After years of design, government approval, funding efforts and redesign, sections of the gargantuan fibreglass tank were assembled on site in the last two weeks.
Full text
Emily Chung, CBC News - January 13, 2011
B.C. salmon deaths may be linked to virus
A pattern predicting which sockeye salmon will likely die on their way to spawn in B.C.'s Fraser River basin — possibly linked to a viral infection — has been uncovered by researchers.
Full text
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist - January 13, 2011
Governments battle lawsuit over sea lice
The federal and provincial governments have filed appeals against a B.C. Supreme Court ruling in an attempt to scuttle a class-action lawsuit over sea lice on salmon farms filed by a First Nation.
Full text
East Coast Telegraph-Journal - January 11, 2011
Thousands of farmed salmon escape from cages
Nets torn during heavy winds around Christmas allowed 138,000 small farmed salmon to escape from two floating sea cages off Grand Manan.
Full text
Richard Black, BBC - December 30, 2010
City street to open sea - fish farming's new frontiers
Indications are that the industry of the future will farm different species, use novel integrated production methods, and explore new physical environments, from city centres to the open ocean.
Full text
Rob Edwards, The Herald (Scotland) - December 26, 2010
Government ‘caves in’ to legal threats by salmon farmers
Pollution and health checks on hundreds of fish farms have been suspended and kept secret after the Scottish Government was threatened with legal action by the £350 million salmon farming industry.
Full text
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee - December 23, 2010
BC salmon farms increase sea lice numbers: Report
'Results suggest that exponential population growth of lice within a farm, rather than sustained louse immigration from wild sources, drive outbreaks on farms.'
Full text
Scott Stanfield - Comox Valley Record - December 23, 2010
New aquaculture regulations deemed inadequate
The BC Wilderness Tourism Association is calling on the federal government to revise a new set of aquaculture regulations in order to protect wild salmon stocks.
Full text
David Ross, The Herald (Scotland) - December 18, 2010
Environment before jobs as islanders say no to fish farm
The residents on the western-most outpost of the Small Isles have just rejected the overtures of a major company.
Full text
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - December 13, 2010
Sea lice not cause of wild salmon collapse, researchers say
Dr. Marty, who has worked for the fish farming industry in the United States, said the finding means environmentalists’ demands that fish farms be moved away from the migratory routes of wild salmon are not justified.
Full text
Fish Info & Services - December 14, 2010
DFO to assume broader role in BC aquaculture
But environmental groups say federal government has fallen far short of what is needed
Full text
Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist - December 11, 2010
New rules welcomed by fish farmers
But environmental groups say federal government has fallen far short of what is needed
Full text
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee - December 8, 2010
Cohen orders fish farms to submit health data back to 2000
But environmental groups say federal government has fallen far short of what is needed
Full text
Fish Info & Services - November 26, 2010
DFO recognises potential of closed containment methods
The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform has lauded the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada for acknowledging the important potential of closed containment technology for salmon aquaculture to replace net-cage methods that jeopardize their surrounding natural marine environment.
Full text
Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - November 3, 2010
Brain lesions linked to sharp drop in sockeye stocks
After the dramatic collapse of sockeye salmon stocks in the Fraser River last year, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans quickly identified the three 'most likely' causes – including a mysterious disease that causes brain lesions in fish.
Full text
TheFishSite - November 2, 2010
CMS Virus Identified In Atlantic Salmon
PHARMAQ and the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science have identified the virus causing cardiomyopathy syndrome (CMS) of Atlantic salmon.
Full text
NewDesignWorld Press Center (Press Release) - November 1, 2010
Large-Scale Fish Farm Production Offsets Environmental Gains
Industrial-scale aquaculture production magnifies environmental degradation, according to the first global assessment of the effects of marine finfish aquaculture (e.g. salmon, cod, turbot and grouper) released today.
Full text
CBC - October 31, 2010
Fish farm slowdown urged by East Coast group
The New Brunswick and Nova Scotia governments should declare a moratorium on licensing new salmon farms, says the Atlantic Coalition for Aquaculture Reform.
Full text
CBC - October 28, 2010
Fish farms begin use of new pesticide
The aquaculture industry faced questions in recent weeks when it was revealed that companies could use Alphamax to battle sea lice, which are parasites that attach themselves to salmon.
Full text
By Derek Abma, Postmedia News - October 27, 2010
Canadian researchers issue warning over environmental impact of fish farming
'Because Atlantic salmon and other species are so efficient to produce (on a per tonne basis), it actually drives incentive to adopt scales of production to heights that are ultimately, from an environmental point of view, very destructive,' Volpe said.
Full text
Fish Update - October 26, 2010
New coalition wants major changes to aquaculture methods
Fishermen, environmentalists and coastal residents on the Bay of Fundy have banded together to voice serious concerns about the impacts of fish farming on marine life.
Full text
Fish Update - October 14, 2010
Fierce debate opens up on GM salmon
An intense - and passionate - debate is opening across the United States and the rest of the world over whether genetically modified salmon is safe - for both the consumers and the wild salmon industry.
Full text
Matthew Abbott, Telegraph-Journal - October 12, 2010
Pesticides are not 'medicine'
While in these enclosed environments they are fed wild-caught fish along with a mixture of antibiotics, pesticides and in-feed colour additives to give them the 'natural' salmon pink colour.
Full text
Judith Lavoie, timescolonist.com - October 11, 2010
Lice jumping from pink salmon to coho, two studies report
Coho prey on juvenile pink salmon and, as they are eating, mobile sea lice hitch a ride on the predator rather than be eaten, the research found.
Full text
Crawford Kilian, The Tyee - October 7, 2010
Salmon farms, sea lice main cause of huge drop in coho: Studies
New research offers more evidence that open-pen salmon farming is causing "major declines in wild fish populations," according to a news release from the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform.
Full text
Fish Info & Services - October 4, 2010
Global guidelines for aquaculture certification proposed
The Sub-Committee of Aquaculture of the Committee on Fisheries of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have adopted a set of global guidelines for the certification of aquaculture products.
Full text
Dan Maclennan, Courier-Islander - October 1, 2010
Closed-containment project takes step forward
When complete, AgriMarine said the Middle Bay Project will demonstrate a new marine-based commercially-adaptable technology that will offer the socio-economic benefits of fish farming without many of the negative environmental issues associated with traditional net cage fish farms.
Full text
Victoria Times Colonist - September 28, 2010
Test-tube salmon pose great risks
Now we are talking about unleashing new species, developed in the lab, with no certainty about what might lie ahead.
Full text
CBC News - September 27, 2010
Diversifying salmon farms works: researcher
Having mussels and seaweed alongside the salmon balances the ecosystem because after the salmon release nutrients into the water, the mussels absorb the organic components and seaweed takes in the inorganic parts, Chopin says.
Full text
Jamie Doward, The Observer (UK) - September 26, 2010
GM food battle moves to fish as super-salmon nears US approval
Consumer groups fear green light for engineered species will bring environmental disaster to the oceans.
Full text
Edward French, The Quoddy Tides - September 24, 2010
Fish farmers challenged by sea lice outbreaks
Concerns have been raised about the use of pesticides to treat sea lice, with the Traditional Fisheries Coalition recently calling on federal Minister of Fisheries Gail Shea to make a public statement regarding the eventual elimination of the use of the chemicals in the marine environment.
Full text
Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun - September 21, 2010
Canadian aquaculture won't touch GE fish with a ten-foot pole
An American biotech firm is in the early stages of seeking approval from Health Canada to market genetically engineered Atlantic salmon, but the Canadian aquaculture industry wants nothing to do with growing it.
Full text
Darrell Bellaart, Nanaimo Daily News - September 13, 2010
Science used to track fish hints at fish-farming link
Nanaimo company puts sound-emitting devices in tiny smolts.
Full text
Jill Richardson, AlterNet - September 13, 2010
The Creepy Science Behind Genetically Engineered 'Frankenfish' About to Enter Our Food Supply Unlabeled
This salmon would be the first genetically engineered animal to enter the U.S. food supply, and the science behind its approval process is frightening.
Full text
CBC News - September 10, 2010
Genetically modified salmon safe, FDA says
Documents released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say genetically modified salmon being reared on P.E.I. is safe, provoking some alarm on both sides of the border.
Full text
Ian McIlwraith, Sydney Morning Herald - September 8, 2010
Sea of red ink after 'bath' kills kingfish
Clean Seas, like many other fish-farming groups, uses dilute hydrogen peroxide (because it breaks down into non-toxic substances) to disinfect the fish.
Full text
Carlito Pablo, The Straight - September 2, 2010
Proposed organic aquaculture standards opposed
More than 40 Canadian and US organisations submitted a joint letter opposing the General Standards Board’s (CGSB) proposed organic standards that allow for antibiotic and chemical treatments of fish in aquaculture.
Full text
Natalia Real, Fish Info & Services - September 1, 2010
Proposed organic aquaculture standards opposed.
Open-net-cage salmon farms are incubators of sea lice and diseases, according to opponents.
Full text
Jeff Nagel, BC Local News - September 1, 2010
Land-farmed salmon making a splash
The growing demand has the couple contemplating a significant expansion, possibly beyond their current specialty niche market.
Full text
AQUACULTURE LINKS
Original material in this web site may be reproduced in any form without permission on condition that it is accredited to Cyber-Help for Organic Farmers, with a link back to this site or, in the case of printed material, a clear indication of the site URL. We would appreciate being notified of such use. Although care has been taken in preparing the information contained in this web site, Cyber-Help for Organic Farmers does not and cannot guarantee the accuracy thereof. Anyone using the information does so at their own risk and shall be deemed to indemnify Cyber-Help for Organic Farmers from any and all injury or damage arising from such use.
Organic Aquaculture News and Links