All talk and no action as fish farms kill off our wild salmon

Scotland - August 10, 2009 - Gerald Warner offers an opinion piece on the lack of decisiveness of the tripartite working group looking into problems of restoration of West Coast salmon and sea trout fisheries

Sustainable fish farming

The refurbished and expanded salmon farm at Big Glory Bay on Stewart Island, opened by Fisheries Minister Phil Heatley on Friday, is a real good-news story in itself for Southland's economy and employment opportunities, but even better is that it may be just the beginning of a significant growth in sustainable fish farming, writes The Southland ...

New record as 600,000 smolts transported in Norway

A FISHING company has just completed the transfer of the largest quantity of living salmon between two northern zone countries.

The operation was carried out by Samherji's fish farming subsidiary Islandsbleikja when a ship docked at Kirkenes in northern Norway with 600,000 living salmon smolts worth around £650,000 .

9,000 sign petition in fight to relocate salmon farms

THE Salmon and Trout Association has collected more than 9,000 signatures on a petition calling on the Scottish Government to move salmon farms away from the estuaries of major rivers.

Atlantic Salmon Dying in Chile's Pacific

Chile's Salmon Farming Industry is in Tatters. As Legislators, Banks and Businesses Regroup, Consumers Might Reconsider Their Fish Choices A narrow strip of land wedged between the Andes and the Pacific Ocean, Chile's entire western border lies along the sea, giving it a coastline that stretches for 4,000 miles - - about as much coastline as ...

SALMON ... the king of the sea

ROYAL FLESH: A side of king salmon marinated in soy and oyster sauce with broccoli, red peppers and coriander.

Gerald Warner: All talk and no action as fish farms kill off our wild salmon

IF YOU want to promote decisive action, your best bet is to set up a working group a ' especially a tripartite working group.

Cermaq profit from higher feed and fish prices

Norwegian aquaculture and fish feed company, Cermaq ASA has reported a second quarter profit (EBIT pre fair value) of NOK 81.4 million (£8 million). This compares to a loss of NOK 31.2 million in the same quarter last year. Higher profits were achieved in both the fish feed division, EWOS and the salmon farming division, Mainstream.

Salmon farm upgrade catches minister's eye

Southland now has a salmon farm facility to rival its international competitors, according to a visiting marine construction expert.

No room for bias in science

It is disturbing to read the misleading comments from Duane Barker, professor at Vancouver Island Universitya s fisheries and aquaculture program who has just received $413,000 in public money for research into a oesea lice and their impact on salmon farming.a He states that a oerecent researcha indicates higher levels of sea lice are found on wild ...

Sanford’s Big Glory Bay salmon farm expansion opened by Fisheries Minister

New Zealand Minister of Fisheries, Hon Phil Heatley has opened Sanford Limited’s salmon farm upgrade and expansion in Big Glory Bay Stewart Island.

Salmon back in the Seine as Paris river cleans up its act

Wild salmon has returned to the Seine, in a sign that the once horribly polluted river running through Paris is clean, scientists and fisherman have revealed.