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Taras Grescoe, Globe and Mail - March 13, 2010
Killer lice
The profits go to bank accounts in Oslo, licensing fees are laughably low and companies are allowed to continue operating farms even after their leases have expired. .
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CBC News - March 8, 2010
B.C. fish farm 'not negligent' in escape
Investigators say a B.C. fish farm operator wasn't negligent when thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped last October, but one critic is questioning the government's standards.
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CTV - March 4, 2010
Farmed vs. wild salmon - which is better?
Samples of wild Pacific salmon tested on behalf of CTV News at laboratories in B.C. had eight times more Vitamin D and three times more Vitamin A than farmed Atlantic salmon.
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Mark Hume, AllAboutFeed.net - March 2, 2010
Probiotics and immunity: A fish perspective
Nowadays, probiotics are becoming an integral part of the aquaculture practices to obtain high production.
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Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - March 1, 2010
Sea lice data to be made public
After a four-year battle an environmental organization has won access to data collected by the British Columbia government on sea lice infestations in salmon farms.
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Andrew Leonard, Salon - February 25, 2010
Chile's farmed salmon isaster
After a virus that causes salmon anemia devastated Chile's salmon harvest, prices have spiked worldwide and Norway's salmon exporters are taking advantage.
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Andrew Jenner, The Christian Science Monitor - February 24, 2010
Recirculating aquaculture systems: The future of fish farming?
Recirculating aquaculture systems cut the pollution and disease that occur in current fish farming operations.
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Alexandra Morton, blog - February 21, 2010 .
Sea Lice Investigation - what is government doing?
A month ago people started telling me about an unusual sea lice epidemic off Nootka Island.
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World Sentinel - February 21, 2010 .
Pure Salmon Campaign, Canadian First Nations Leaders Urge Norway to Protect B.C.'s Wild Salmon
At an event coinciding with the Norway - Canada Olympic hockey game, members of the Pure Salmon Campaign and several of British Columbia's First Nations chiefs called for the removal of Norwegian-owned salmon farms from Canadian waters.
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Crawford Kilian, The Tyee - February 16, 2010 .
Norwegian reports 'huge victory for sea lice'
The Norwegian Food and Safety Authority recently reported nearly 100 cases of chemical treatment failures as sea lice are now immune.
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Clare Backman and Jennifer Lash, Times Colonist - February 4, 2010 .
Activists, salmon farmers work together
In the midst of the debate over salmon farming on British Columbia's coast, the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, which includes the Living Oceans Society, David Suzuki Foundation, Watershed Watch, T. Buck Suzuki Foundation, Georgia Strait Alliance and Marine Harvest Canada, a division of the largest salmon farming company in the world, have been working together to find a path forward.
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D.C. Reid, Times Colonist - January 27, 2010 .
Closed containment systems coming to fish farms near you
Closed containment systems for Atlantic salmon fish farms are now being developed in B.C. to solve the sea lice, effluent and chemical problems associated with open systems.
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CBC News - January 26, 2010 .
B.C. fish farming expansion frozen until December
Fish farming on the West Coast won't be allowed to expand until at least December, following a B.C. Supreme Court decision to give the federal government more time to take over the job of regulating the industry from the province.
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Jonathan Birchall, Financial Times - January 26, 2010.
Target goes wild for salmon
Target, the US mass discounter, has become the first leading US food retailer to stop selling farmed salmon in its stores, citing the negative impact of salmon farming on the environment.
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Michael Collins, Scripps Howard News Service - January 21, 2010.
Ocean fish farming comes closer with new proposed rules
The Marine Stewardship Council has taken a step towards certifying British Columbia's sockeye salmon fishery as ecologically sustainable, a move critics say risks the international organization's credibility.
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Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee - January 20, 2010.
Sockeye eco-certification in year of collapse risks MSC credibility: critic
The Marine Stewardship Council has taken a step towards certifying British Columbia's sockeye salmon fishery as ecologically sustainable, a move critics say risks the international organization's credibility.
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Keven Drews, Westcoast News - January 15, 2010.
More Sea Lice Found Near High-Density Salmon Farms: Researchers
Researchers from Washington state say they have found more intense concentrations of juvenile sea lice in areas of Clayoquot Sound that have high-density salmon farms.
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Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight - December 30, 2009.
Fish farming court order confounds federal government
Morton said that if Hinkson grants the federal government’s request for an extension, he should also prohibit the provincial government from allowing the expansion of ocean-finfish aquaculture in B.C. in the interim.
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Pierre-Henry Deshayes, AFP - December 24, 2009.
Lice alert for Norwegian salmon
This past autumn, fish farmers observed three times as many Lepeophtheirus salmonis, a tiny sea louse that feeds on the salmon's skin and mucous membranes, as last year.
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Conor Duffy and Selina Bryan, Australian Broadcasting Corporation - December 10, 2009.
Fish farm fears: what lies beneath?
Critics insist that the antibiotic and nutrient-rich waste from the salmon industry is changing the local marine environments around Tasmanian fish farms.
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Ecotrust - November 23, 2009.
Global Study of Salmon
Multi-Year Study Points the Way to Sustainable Salmon Production and Debunks Food Sustainability Myths Along the Way; Mode Matters More Than Miles
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Kai Chan, Metro Vancouver - November 18, 2009.
Province needs to get creative on salmon
Closed-containment salmon aquaculture could create jobs and avoid harm to marine ecosystems associated with salmon farmed in the ocean - with a little help from you.
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Canwest News Service - November 18, 2009.
Fish being wiped out to feed farm animals, study says
The oceans are being emptied to provide feed for farmed animals such as fish, chickens and pigs, a study involving the University of B.C. concludes.
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Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist - November 4, 2009.
Salmon's ecological finprint measured
The first cradle-to-grave analysis of the environmental impact of salmon farms has found that in some ways they harm the environment less than, say, raising beef cattle – but also that there is plenty of room for improvement.
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The Financial (Tibilisi, Georgia) - October 25, 2009.
Cargill to feature Hoplite, a natural feed additive, at the Asian Pacific Aquaculture Show in Malaysia
The sustainably sourced, natural yeast product contains nucleotides and proteins that support the immune system and cell growth, which may improve the gut health of fish and shrimp.
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Robert Mendick, Telegraph (UK) - October 25, 2009.
Investigation: How farm fishing boom in Chile threatens eco disaster
Almost overnight the industry had been brought to its knees with thousands of workers laid off, fish farms lying empty and local waters polluted.
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Emma Bocking, The Ecologist (UK) - October 20, 2009.
Can salmon farming be sustainable?
Salmon farming is renowned for its local environmental pollution, but now some fish farmers are starting to look at fish waste as an untapped resource
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The Advocate (Louisiana) - October 4, 2009.
Proposed offshore fish farming in Gulf attracting opposition
Aquaculture plan opens door for projects in federal waters
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BBC News - October 2, 2009.
How do you train a fish?
'We are trying to train fish so that we don't have to use cages to confine them, so that they can forage for natural food as well as the food that we offer them.'
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All About Feed - September 4, 2009.
European authorisation for probiotic in aquaculture
Bactocell® is the first probiotic authorized for use in aquaculture in the European Union. Lallemand’s lactic acid bacteria are now recognized to improve performance in salmonids and shrimp.
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Fishupdate.com (UK) - July 27, 2009.
Vanvouver Island University researcher wins major grant to study sea lice
Sea lice research in Canada has been boosted with the award of a CA$413,000 federal research grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to Dr. Duane Barker of Vancouver Island University.
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Courier-Islander (BC) - July 24, 2009.
Sea Lice Levels Said Dropping, but Morton Issues Caution
Preliminary results from the joint Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) and Marine Harvest Canada (MHC) sea lice monitoring program in the Broughton Archipelago indicate that sea lice levels in 2009 on juvenile pink and chum salmon migrating through the region are lower than in recent years.
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The Province (BC) - July 18, 2009.
Critics seek closure of five B.C. salmon farms
A series of open-net-cage salmon farms in key migratory routes in the northern part of Georgia Strait need to be closed before
fish stocks are killed off due to sea-lice infestation, say critics of the aquaculture practices.
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ABC Rural (Australia) - July 13, 2009.
Climate change could hit aquaculture
An Adelaide University researcher says the aquaculture industry could be more at risk of the effects of climate change than the wildcatch fishing industry.
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Dan Imhoff, Huffington Post - July 11, 2009.
Chile's Salmon Farms Verging on Breakdown
Critics have called for improved conditions by limiting the number of salmon in the cages and by spreading the farms farther apart from one another to avoid transfer of disease and to lessen the concentration of harmful chemicals, antibiotics, and other adverse affects of large-scale fish production.
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Mother Nature Network - July 6, 2009.
New fish farming method provides virtually guilt-free seafood
Recirculating Marine Aquaculture filters and recycles water and uses methane from fish waste to offset energy use.
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CBC News - June 26, 2009.
Fish farm off Vancouver Island worries environmentalists
Grieg Seafoods had originally applied to put two fish farms north of Sayward at Gunner Point, but after the district officials were flooded with submissions from supporters and opponents, the regional district directors sought a middle ground.
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The Scotsman - June 26, 2009.
Salmon farm pays out £13k after fish escape
A Sottish river board has won a landmark legal battle against a fish farming company following an escape of farmed salmon on a tributary to one of the country's most popular angling rivers.
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Kitchener Record (Ontario) - June 20, 2009.
Guelph study could help B.C. salmon-farm industry
DNA bar coding techniques have shed new light on controlling the spread of the salmon louse, a parasite that is blamed for devastating wild Pacific salmon stocks and costing British Columbia's salmon-farm industry millions of dollars each year.
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Canwest News Service (BC) - June 17, 2009.
5 fish farm sites must be removed to protect wild salmon says GSA
Five open net-cage salmon farms must be permanently removed from a salmon migration route in the northern Georgia Strait in order to protect thousands of juvenile salmon from sea lice and other potentially fatal diseases, the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform said Tuesday.
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Fish Information & Services - June 10, 2009.
True North Salmon earns eco-label
Customers don't understand the problem - so it's a good thing supermarkets are protecting fish before they disappear entirely.
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Frank Pope, The Times (UK) - June 8, 2009.
Could this be the end of the line?
Customers don't understand the problem - so it's a good thing supermarkets are protecting fish before they disappear entirely
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Canwest - June 5, 2009.
Norway shows our Pacific salmon in peril
I thought Norway had this industry handled and I expected to learn how marine salmon farming could work, but this has not been the case.
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Star Phoenix (Saskatchewan) - June 2, 2009.
B.C. considers new fish-farm technology
Opponents of open-net fish farming in B.C. are monitoring a Norwegian pilot project that uses closed containment to raise Atlantic salmon.
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Star Phoenix (Saskatchewan) - May 27, 2009.
The smoking gun?
New research indicates that there is a possibility of genetically comparing sea lice on wild salmon from those at salmon farming operations.
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One World UK - May 16, 2009.
Worldwide protest against aquaculture plan
Over 70 human rights and environmental groups from around the world have expressed outrage at the planned launch of the World Wildlife Fund's Aquaculture Stewardship Council.
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Sarah Douziech, Westerly News (BC) - May 14, 2009.
Closed containment salmon farming to be researched
A long-time resident of Ucluelet has district support for research into developing a closed containment salmon aquaculture facility in the region.
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Jeroen Molenaar and Jeremy van Loon, Bloomberg - May 14, 2009.
Caged Salmon Go Veggie as Nutreco Cooks Beans, Seeds
The pellets still contain fish oil salmon needs to build up so-called Omega 3 acids that support the human immune system and make the fish a popular source of nutrition with consumers.
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Mark Roberts, The Advance (Nova Scotia) - March 12, 2009.
Premier announces surprise moratorium on Port Mouton Bay fish farming
Premier MacDonald said the reasons are related to the area's protected lands, including Carter's Beach, and 'because we're listening to the community.'
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Shadi Elien, Georgia Straight - March 9, 2009.
Almost 2,000 sign biologist's petition calling on feds to regulate fish farms
B.C. biologist Alexandra Morton has collected nearly 2,000 signatures on a petition from members of the fishing community who want to see the federal government immediately take over responsibility for fish farms from the province.
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Discover Magazine - March 9, 2009.
Farmed salmon giant appeals court ruling that hands industry jurisdiction to Ottawa
B.C.'s biggest producer of farmed salmon announced Monday it has launched an appeal of a landmark B.C. Supreme Court decision that found the federal government -- not the province -- has exclusive jurisdiction over the management of salmon farming.
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Discover Magazine - March 2, 2009.
Are Fish Farms the Answer to World Hunger or a Blight on the Oceans?
Although the U.N. report presents aquaculture as a way to take pressure off wild fish stocks, conservationists say that fish farms indirectly snatch the food from many wild predator fish, marine mammals, and birds.
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Frank Pope, The Times (UK) - March 2, 2009.
UN body provokes outrage with call for more fish farming
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said that increasing global demand for fish should be met through intensive fish farming amid falling wild populations.
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Los Angeles Times - February 16, 2009.
Waste from fish farming spreads farther than previously thought
Fish oil replacements for farmed fish feeds may help reduce the aquaculture industry’s dependence on wild fisheries for their essential omega-3 requirements.
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Rachel Ehrenberg, Science Daily - February 16, 2009.
Predators zoom in on lice-infested salmon
Fish oil replacements for farmed fish feeds may help reduce the aquaculture industry’s dependence on wild fisheries for their essential omega-3 requirements.
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Science Daily - February 12, 2009.
Fish Oil Alternatives To Farmed Fish Feed May Alleviate Global Seafood Shortage
Fish oil replacements for farmed fish feeds may help reduce the aquaculture industry’s dependence on wild fisheries for their essential omega-3 requirements.
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Macleans - February 11, 2009.
The latest foe in the war over salmon farms? Rapacious Norwegians.
Many of the farms are situated smack in the middle of key wild salmon runs, including the Fraser River run, which, this fall, recorded a 60 per cent decline in returning fish.
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CTV - February 9, 2009.
Fish farm critics win major court victory
In a major victory for anti-fish farm advocates, the British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled that fish farms are the jurisdiction of the federal government and not the B.C. government.
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Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun - February 6, 2009.
Threats to wild salmon raise need for new protection agency: report
Wild salmon face 'unprecedented threats' ranging from climate change to development and require the protection of a new agency dedicated to taking an ecological approach to all watershed activities that might threaten fish habitat, a report commissioned by the B.C. government recommended Thursday.
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Tom Philpott, Grist - February 4, 2009.
Impressions from the Seafood Summit in San Diego
Most analysts reckon by 2010, half of all fish will come from farms, the vast majority of it from large monocrop operations.
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Science Daily - February 3, 2009.
Salmon farming spawns aboriginal lawsuit against B.C. government
A Northern Vancouver Island First Nation is preparing a class-action lawsuit against the B.C. government, alleging nearby salmon farms are harming wild salmon stocks.
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Science Daily - January 27, 2009.
'Happy medium' for salmon farming?
Agrimarine Industries is currently building a large tank, made of high-density foam and fiberglass, that will float in the waters of Middle Bay, off the southeast coast of Vancouver Island.
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Science Daily - January 2, 2009.
Aquaculture's Growth Seen As Continuing
The assessment, by James S. Diana of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, notes that despite well-publicized concerns about some harmful effects of aquaculture, the technique may, when practiced well, be no more damaging to biodiversity than other food production systems.
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Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - December 26, 2008.
Campbell's doomed policies on fish farming will be a tough sell to voters
With killer whale populations dropping in the Strait of Georgia, in a large part because of a lack of salmon to feed on, with grizzly bears starving because salmon spawning runs have failed to materialize, and with sports, commercial and native fisheries largely closed coast-wide, there can be little doubt that B.C. is experiencing an environmental crisis.
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Janice Karin, The Future of Things - December 12, 2008.
Robotic Fish Cages
The cages operate when both fully or partially submerged, retain their size and shape in strong currents or undertow, making them well suited for a wide variety of uses.
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Innovations Report (Germany) - December 8, 2008.
Intestinal health in salmon fed a plant-based diet
Replacing marine ingredients with plant-based ingredients exposes fish to a series of 'foreign' components, for example, starch and anti-nutrients that may upset natural processes occurring in the intestine.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - November 26, 2008.
Fish to be raised in ocean cages
An Australian first aquaculture trial will take place off the coast of Western Australia next year.
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Times Colonist (Victoria) - November 25, 2008.
Too many delays on fish farm rules
Those cheap farmed salmon that are damaging the natural environment in such places as B.C.'s Inside Passage are the first to get this easier 'organic' standard.
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Rick Attig, The Oregonian - November 23, 2008.
Farmed fish: Almost organic, and always polluting
Those cheap farmed salmon that are damaging the natural environment in such places as B.C.'s Inside Passage are the first to get this easier 'organic' standard.
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Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun - November 22, 2008.
Organic label may elude B.C. salmon farmers
British Columbia salmon farmers' reliance on a foreign species, Atlantic salmon, may prove costly for them in the United States.
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Walter Cordery, The Nanaimo Daily News (BC) - November 21, 2008.
Groups fear expansion of fish farms
A coalition of environmental groups is sounding the alarm about the provincial government allowing some fish farm operators to greatly increase the size of their operations.
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Juliet Eilperin and Jane Black, Washington Post - November 20, 2008.
USDA Panel Approves First Rules For Labeling Farmed Fish 'Organic'
For the first time, a federal advisory board has approved criteria that clear the way for farmed fish to be labeled 'organic', a move that pleased aquaculture producers even as it angered environmentalists and consumer advocates.
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Scientific American - November 20, 2008.
Farmed fish can be organic, too, ag advisors say
A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) advisory panel says that producers should be allowed to slap organic labels on farmed fish even if their diets include wild fish and other feed that isn’t organic itself - definitions that environmentalists say depart from the criteria for other certified organic animal food products.
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Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - November 20, 2008.
Environmentalists worried by fish-farm sector's push for expanding facilities
The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform released Ministry of Agriculture and Lands documents that show two companies have filed applications for permits to increase productivity at more than 20 different farm sites.
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Mike Hughlett, Chicago Tribune - November 15, 2008.
World's salmon aquaculture industry leaders meet to develop standards
More than 80 of the world's salmon aquaculture industry stakeholders – including producers, NGO representatives, retailers, government representatives and scientists – met in Edinburgh this week to move forward with developing global standards for salmon aquaculture.
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Fish Update - November 14, 2008.
Organic definition for fish flounders
Under the proposed guidelines, wild fish will not make the grade as organic because the whole notion of 'wild' is at odds with the government's rigorous criteria for classifying organic livestock production.
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Travis Lupick, Georgia Straight - November 6, 2008.
Fish farm declaration sent to United Nations
A declaration has been sent to the United Nations claiming that current fish farming practices, such as those in British Columbia, are "ecologically devastating " and "threatening local food security ".
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Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun - October 31, 2008.
Pink salmon in sharp decline near Broughton fish farms
A stunning collapse of pink salmon runs on the British Columbia central coast is reopening a charged debate about the looming extinction of wild salmon that breed near fish farms.
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Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun - October 28, 2008.
Salmon farming outfit assailed for exceeding production quotas
Based on the ministry's recent annual compliance report on fin-fish aquaculture, the eight Mainstream farms exceeded production by 9,490 tonnes during the 2001-2003 cycle, and exceeded production by 13,594 tonnes in the 2004-2006 cycle -- roughly double its licenced limit.
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Westcoaster.ca - October 22, 2008.
Chamber Pushes For Closed-Containment Fund
Salmon farmers are approved to use Slice through the emergency drug release program, which allows the use of non-approved drugs when recommended by veterinarians for emergency situations.
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Canadian OH&S News - October 20, 2008.
PEI releases first-ever aquaculture guide
The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) of Prince Edward Island has released its first Aquaculture Safety Code of Practice.
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Walter Cordery, Nanaimo Daily News - October 10, 2008.
Impact of Slice still unknown
Salmon farmers are approved to use Slice through the emergency drug release program, which allows the use of non-approved drugs when recommended by veterinarians for emergency situations.
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Catherine Stewart, The Province - October 10, 2008.
B.C.'s salmon farmers given a free ride by our provincial 'regulators'
When the industry data does arrive in provincial offices the bureaucrats don't question the numbers.
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Ruth Salmon, The Province - October 8, 2008.
It's time we used the oceans for farming rather than for hunting
The Canadian aquaculture industry is governed by a framework of 73 pieces of federal and provincial legislation, making it one of the most strictly regulated industries in the world.
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Times Colonist (BC) - October 5, 2008.
Fishery needs better supervision
The two levels of government have divided things up so each can avoid taking responsibility.
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Fiona Morrow, Globe and Mail - September 30, 2008.
Fish-farm hearing tied in constitutional knots
At issue is whether federal or provincial governments have final say over tidal waters, hearing told.
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Larry Pynn, Canwest News Service - September 28, 2008.
Day in court begins for foes of B.C. salmon farming
Alexandra Morton heads to B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver Monday for a four-day challenge of the provincial government's constitutional right to regulate and approve fish farm locations.
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Fiona Morrow, Globe and Mail - September 24, 2008.
A new breed of fish farming
Aquaculture has long been a target of environmentalists, but the critters at this operation in B.C. tick all the right eco-boxes.
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CBC News - September 23, 2008.
Salmon pulled from Bay of Fundy fish farm
Nell Halse, the company's communications director, said the tide has proved to be too high and the current too strong at the site.
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Mark Hume, Globe and Mail - September 19, 2008.
Declining salmon runs blamed for wilderness tourism slump
Mr. Gunn blamed the fish-farming business, saying a heavy concentration of net pens in the Broughton Archipelago has created sea-lice epidemics which kill young salmon.
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Jennifer Dart, Westerly News - September 4, 2008.
Aquaculture company holds meeting in BC, hears from Ahousaht and ENGOs
The board of directors of a Norwegian aquaculture company with fish farms in Clayoquot Sound visited Vancouver Island last week and also met with a local First Nation.
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GreenBiz - September 2, 2008.
Whole Foods' Farmed Seafood Standards Reviewed
The Environmental Law Institute and The Ocean Foundation praised Whole Foods' recently published farmed seafood purchasing standards but also said the grocery chain could take steps to improve them, such as increasing transparency.
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Andrea Cohen, MIT - September 2, 2008.
MIT tests self-propelled cage for fish farming
A self-propelling underwater cage developed and recently tested by an MIT researcher could not only cut costs for offshore ocean-based fish farms but also aid the movement of such operations into the high seas, avoiding the user conflicts and compromised water quality of coastal zones.
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