Lice are such a bad problem in Norway
where the BC industry is from, and they are so resistant to all the chemicals,
that the government has finally said they can increase the numbers of
fish, if their lice counts are down.
At first and subsequent glances, this seems
very strange. Let’s see, count fewer lice, make more money? Pay fish farmers if
they reduce lice? It should be: they get taken out of the water for good. And
who is doing the counting? After all, the CEO of Marine Harvest last year said
he was angry with fish farmers because 40% of them don’t report their lice
counts.
So, we pay fish farms that don’t submit
numbers? Who will be doing this counting? Government? I am sure I could come up
with a lower lice count easily, and then not report those numbers.
The other issue is that the companies
then pay $123,854 US for a permit to raise 5% greater biomass of fish, assuming
they can count fewer lice – maybe the farms not reporting will climb to 60%.
And their licences are about $1.69
million. In BC, Canada, the licences are about $5000. So fish farms are
subsidized in BC by almost S!.64 Million. This is a powerful reason to say they
should be on land, because they are so highly subsidized in Canada that they
can easily afford to be high and dry.
SEAFOODNEWS.COM
[Reuters] - March 20, 2015 -
OSLO, Norwegian fish farmers will be allowed to boost their output
by five percent if they succeed in complying with significantly stricter sea
lice restrictions, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries said on
Friday.
Fish farmers must pay one million Norwegian crowns ($123,854) for
the new permit. Only those who meet a limit of an average 0.1 sea lice per
fish, well below the limit of 0.5 lice under current regulations, will be
allowed to increase output...
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