Cooke appeals WA decision to end fish farm leases
Anyone following the termination of aquaculture leases news in Puget Sound probably had Cooke filing suit on their bingo card. Cooke Aquaculture Pacific has filed …
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Ottawa accused of suppressing research on fish-farm virus in B.C.
Conservationists are accusing the federal Fisheries Department of suppressing information about a virus that may be causing heart, skeletal, and muscle disease in farmed salmon …
GOODBYE PUGET SOUND NET PENS!!!!
Grassroots advocacy at work and a huge victory for wild fish. November 15th, 2022— Late last night, in a groundbreaking and historic announcement, Washington Department …
Escaped farmed salmon found surviving in the wild one year later
The Directorate of Fisheries in Iceland said it caught 32 salmon in a stream in Westfjords, Iceland, and discovered through preliminary DNA analysis that 16 …
Salmon Wars: A Call to Action
Some frightening stats by the authors “Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish” There is a danger in trying to distill two years …
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 …
Thieving sea lions break into salmon farm and gorge on feast of fish
Dozens of thieving sea lions in western Canada have spent the last few weeks gorging on fish after brazenly slipping into an industrial salmon farm …
Sea lice are becoming more resistant to pesticides
Open-net fish pens are the perfect breeding grounds for the parasites, which feast on the mucus, skin and flesh of wild salmon, causing infection and …
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 …