Salmon Producer Nets Top Award For Major Achievements In Fish Welfare

A Sutherland-based salmon producer has received a prestigious award from the RSPCA’s farm assurance and food labelling scheme Freedom Food.

Changing the World, One Salmon at a Time

What a surprise to discover the Santa Barbara Smokehouse - maker of Cambridge House Smoked Salmon, which the New York Times has called "the best smoked salmon in the world" - right in downtown Santa Barbara.

Global warming hits wild salmon hard

Canada - May 12, 2009 - Fish farmers say their practices are safe, sustainable and well-regulated and not the cause of wild salmon's problems

Petition to protect wild salmon

" Alexandra Morton and the Wilderness Committee delivered more than 33,000 signatures in a wheel barrow to the BC government cabinet offices at Canada Place urging them to protect wild salmon from fish farms.

Pure Salmon Campaign Calls on Marine Harvest to Reform Environmental Performance

Marine Harvest is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world and controls more than 20 percent of the market.

Moving Salmon Farm Net Pens May Control Spread of Parasite, U of G Research Finds

Researchers at the University of Guelph have used DNA barcoding techniques to shed new light on controlling the spread of the salmon louse, a parasite blamed for devastating wild Pacific salmon stocks and costing British Columbia's salmon-farm industry millions of dollars each year.

Shetland cannery put up for sale

A COMPLETE process and canning line for packing herring, mackerel and salmon fillets is being offered for sale by tender on the instructions of The Shetland Norse Preserving Company.

Pure Salmon Campaign Urges Cermaq to Protect Wild Salmon, Relocate Salmon Farms

Beginning today and running for the next 10 days, members of the Pure Salmon Campaign, an international coalition advocating for higher standards for farm raised salmon, will meet with a variety of Norwegian stakeholders to provide first-hand accounts of the environmental threats linked to salmon farming.

Scottish salmon companies primed for further investment

Salmon farmers have made major capital investments in the Scottish economy over the last three years as they prepare to meet the growing, global demand for high quality salmon, according to the Chairman of the SSPO as the representative organisation publishes its first Annual Report.

NEW ISA CASE IN CONTROL ZONE

The presence of infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) has been confirmed on a fifth salmon farm within the existing ISA control zone in the South West of Shetland.The farm is close to the farms confirmed as being infected earlier in the year.

Scots salmon farmers give 500m boost to economy, finds survey

SCOTLAND'S salmon farmers injected A 500 million into the economy in 2008, according to a new survey of producers.

Locals dream of closed-contaiment salmon farm

United States - May 12, 2009 - A long-time Ucluelet resident says she foresees the day when locally generated wave energy could run a closed-containment salmon farm nearby.

Efforts to save salmon may be undone by climate change

The Pacific Northwest has spent two decades retooling dams, rebuilding damaged watersheds and restoring stream flows to keep salmon from disappearing.

Farmed salmon gets clean climate report

Sweden - May 11, 2009 - If climate awareness is an issue when it comes to deciding the dinner menu, salmon is a better option than both pork and beef, according to a Life Cycle Assessment study carried out by the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology

Salmon farmers want less regulation

Scotland - May 11, 2009 - The Scottish salmon industry has called for "lighter" regulations to help it expand, as new figures show capital investment has steadily risen over the past three years.

TRADE-BRAZIL: Shrimp - New Source of Tension with U.S.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 19 - Brazil's shrimp exports could follow the footsteps of Chile's salmon, a successful fish-farming product that swiftly conquered markets overseas but for which it suffered threats of trade barriers in the United States.

New Documentary Examines the Impact of Salmon Farming in British Columbia

Submitted by Ted Williams on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 15:35. As currently practiced, salmon aquaculture is a major threat to wild salmon the world over.

Marine Harvest raise €35 million for Chilean operations

The world’s largest aquaculture company, Marine Harvest has completed the pre-sale of a private placement raising €35 million to shore up their Chilean salmon farming division.

FRESH START FOR SCOTLAND'S AQUACULTURE

A new strategy aimed at increasing Scotland's share of the world's fastest growing food-producing sector has been unveiled.

As the largest producer of farmed salmon in the European Union, and the third largest in the world, Scotland's aquaculture industry is a major success story.

Proposal for two new salmon farms under fire

Opponents opened fire last month on Grieg Seafoods' plans to site salmon farms near Yorke Island and Gunner Point.

Salmon farmer regulation warning

Salmon farmers have warned too much regulation could limit future investment in their industry.

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Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-Kwa-Mish First Nation's has filed a class action law suit against the British Columbia Government alleging that wild salmon are being decimated by open net-cage salmon farming in their Territories.

Class-Action Motion filed by BC First Nations in Salmon Farming Case

Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-Kwa-Mish First Nation's has filed a class action law suit against the British Columbia Government alleging that wild salmon are being decimated by open net-cage salmon farming in their Territories.

Kayakers paddling for the plight of salmon

Kayakers Apryle Craig and Phil Magistro talk with supporters Saturday prior to starting their journey to Alaska.