Chile: NGO calls for action over Malachite Green

AN environmental group is urging the Chilean Government to take action over reports that a banned substance has been found in salmon exports.

Canadian aquaculture industry calls for balanced scientific dialogue on sea lice issue

Ottawa, Canada The group of scientists who wrote to the Prime Minister indicating that sea lice from farmed salmon endanger wild salmon stocks unfairly expressed only one side of the story, according to Ruth ...

Scientists: Canadian wild salmon endangered by failure to contain sea lice from salmon farms

Pink salmon infected with sea lice, June 1, 2007, Broughton Archipelago, BC. Credit: Image courtesy of Environmental Communication Options Ottawa, Canada Scientists throughout Canada have written an open letter ...

Atlantic salmon escape net pen but are confined to outer barrier

Canada - September 10, 2007 - All 17,000 Atlantic salmon that escaped from a net pen in Clayoquot Sound this week were confined by the outer barrier around the pen, says the deputy managing director of the fish farming company where the incident occurred.

Sea Lice Letter to Campbell, Harper Deserves Honest Answer

Eighteen scientists have sent a letter to Prime Minister Harper and Premier Gordon Campbell making it clear that lice from fish farms are slaughtering wild salmon smolts.

Escape of the fat lazy salmon

They are an identical species, but while one is lean and incredibly fit, the SAS of the fish world, the other is an obese, idle creature, a couch potato with fins.

Fish farms still accounting for Atlantic salmon

Canada - September 10, 2007 -A Clayoquot Sound salmon farm still doesn't know how many fish may have escaped after workers accidentally tore a one-metre hole in a net pen last week.

Salmon farms: We'll need 100 million fish to be competitive

"We recognise that salmon farming is here to stay but they are not operating their existing farms well enough, and having more is not going to make things better. We would like to see them getting their house in order first."

MORE and larger salmon farms could be created in Scotland to help the industry significantly increase its annual output over the next decade. via Scotsman.com

Weathering the storm on B.C.'s fish farms

An experimental closed-containment system for salmon off Vancouver Island aims to quell the swelling controversy CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. - - When a storm roars down Okisollo Channel, where the blue Pacific braids ...

Cermaq confirms ISA at Mainstream Chile farm

NORWEGIAN aquaculture company Cermaq has confirmed that salmon at one of its Chilean fish farms has tested positive for infectious salmon anemia (ISA).

Scientific leaders join forces to save B.C. salmon stocks

Sea lice from fish farms are and will continue to be lethal to wild salmon stocks unless immediate action is taken, 18 scientists and researchers said Tuesday.

Continuing Opposition to Salmon Farming in British Columbia

By BJ McManama 9/24/2007 On September 17, 2007, thirty-three notable scientists sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stephan Harper and Premier Gordon Campbell regarding the threat to British Columbia's wild ...

Wild Salmon Endangered By Failure To Contain Sea Lice From Salmon Farms

Science Daily - Scientists throughout Canada have written an open letter to the Canadian government urging a response to the issue of sea lice from salmon farms threatening wild Pacific salmon.

New Marine Harvest CEO must focus on environment, says campaign group

WASHINGTON-BASED Pure Salmon Campaign is calling on Marine Harvest to name a new CEO who will commit to implementing long-term reforms that it says are necessary to make the company a leader in environmental standards.

BC salmon farm tries to contain escape

NATIVE fishing boats will drop seine nets around a Clayoquot Sound salmon farm following a harvesting accident that tore a one-metre hole in a net pen this week.

Salmon Farming Controversy Goes to Ninth Circuit

In a fight against a court decision that many have characterized as unnecessary regulation of fishermen, business people, and private property owners, Pacific Legal Foundation attorneys on August 2 filed a ...

Salmon farms cause damage to ecology

Farmed salmon may be cheaper than wild salmon, but the ecological damage should be considered, too.

New Brunswick salmon lab to focus on breeding

A NEW Brunswick-based laboratory to facilitate research into salmon breeding has been opened by the Miramichi Salmon Association.

Fed up BC salmon farmers take positions overseas

SOME of the top workers in BC's salmon industry are leaving to nurture ocean farms elsewhere as they grow tired of working in a province in which strident environmental opposition has all but closed off expansion plans.

Canadian Aquaculture Industry Calls for Balanced Scientific Dialogue

The group of scientists who wrote to the Prime Minister indicating that sea lice from farmed salmon endanger wild salmon stocks unfairly expressed only one side of the story, according to Ruth Salmon, Executive ...

33 Conservation Groups Call on Salmon Farms to Protect Wild Salmon

Thirty-three conservation groups from six countries are calling on salmon farms to protect wild salmon populations.

Fishing for better farmed salmon answers

Canada - September 11, 2007 - Stop press! Low summer Fraser River sockeye runs not blamed on salmon farms.

Salmon Spills

Animals sometimes escape from their fields, pens, etc. Evidently farmed salmon are more like hazardous waste...they " spill " from their sea cages.

Salmon 'spill' prompts calls for closed farming system

Mainstream Canada officials said thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped from an inner containment net but they weren't sure yet how many - if any at all - had made it past an outer barrier, known as a predator ...

Salmon body sets target of 200,000 tonnes

The Scottish farmed salmon industry is to target annual production of 200,000 tonnes within the next 10 years, according to the Scottish Salmon Producers' Organisation .