New Studies Show B.C. Fish Farms Increased Risks For Wild Salmon
Pacific salmon are likely exposed to increased risks from pathogens concentrated in fish farms on the West Coast, two new scientific studies indicate. Young Fraser …
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The Fish With the World’s Longest Freshwater Migration
Fishermen and scientists always suspected this mustached fish, highly appreciated for its flesh, was capable of long migrations. The Dorado catfish travels almost 7,200 miles …
Wild fish stocks squandered to feed farmed salmon
Shoppers’ appetite for salmon is causing millions of tonnes of nutritious mackerel, sardines, and anchovies to be wasted as fish feed, according to new research. …
Genetic evidence of farmed straying and introgression in Swedish wild salmon populations
Science says! Escaped farmed Atlantic salmon represent a well-documented and ongoing threat to wild conspecific populations. In Norway, the world-leading producer of farmed salmon, annual …
WA Supreme Court OKs Cooke Aquaculture “Steelhead” Farming
Booooooooo! The Washington state Supreme Court unanimously upheld permits that will allow Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm steelhead trout in net pens in Washington waters. …
Tribal Members Say Steelhead Net Pens Violate Fishing Rights
The Swinomish Tribe has joined as a friend of the court in a lawsuit to block permits that allow steelhead farming in a commercial net-pen …
This Just In From Planet Bullshit
Despite ongoing litigation and timing questions regarding the lease for the facility, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has granted fish farming giant Cooke …
This Just In From Planet Bullshit
The Scottish government appears ready to approve a banned insecticide blamed for destroying bee populations for use in Scottish salmon farms, according to internal documents …
Otters Cause 8,000 Salmon Escape
Authorities are attempting to recapture around 8,000 fish from a Cooke Aquaculture facility at Long Pond, Newfoundland, Canada. The escape was caused by otters that …
How Aquaculture Is Spreading a Salmon Virus
Definitive proof that salmon farms are infecting wild Pacific salmon with PRV-1. A genetic analysis of Piscine orthoreovirus shows how it was repeatedly transported from …