This article will be used for quick news bites on fish farm damage to environments and related seafood issues around the world. This note will be updated and you should check back from time to time. I think you will be taken aback by the contents. I am.

In one mouthful, the problems include: boom bust industry, billions made and lost, crisis in lice and disease, workers fired, executives jumping company to company, dividing big bonuses, fraud, corruption, litigation, conflict of interest with government and scientists, using the ocean as a free open sewer – $10.4 Billion in BC alone, killing of seals and sea lions – more than 12,000 in BC so far, slavery, unpaid labour, taxpayers paying millions for diseased, dead fish – $135 Million in Canada, duelling scientists, weakening of laws, unsustainable feed, illegal fishing, jail sentences, disasters in Norway, Scotland, Chile, Canada, bullying of scientists, governments and anyone critical of their business, cartels, collusion, price fixing, fishing down the food chain to Antarctic krill, carcinogens and persistent organic pollutants, fluoroquinolones, chicken feathers in feed, animal feces in feed, eutrophication in a time of global warming, Malachite Green fungicide in USA seafood, fake industry awards, all the wild salmon in the Pacific ocean, more than a billion, put in peril... it goes on.

"This shows that this industry has become so big that no one so far has dared to challenge it," he says."

194. 'Fish Farms are as Despised as Big Oil.' Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jeff-matthews/bc-salmon-farming_b_8695522.html.

193. Bust Boom Industry, Chile. AquaChile, the largest company, loses $68.88 Million in Q3. See: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/12/01/aquachile-slides-deeper-in-red-with-q3-losses-across-all-species/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=6f1717f14d-Salmon_roundup_Dec_04_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-6f1717f14d-92426209)

192. "Fish Farms Out of Control in BC." Living Oceans has found BC fish farms with huge lice counts, drugs killing shrimp and prawns, data on escaped farmed salmon in rivers, and industry Greenwash. See: http://www.livingoceans.org/media/news/salmon-farms-out-control.

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The investment came from the UK Regional Growth Fund and would see the creation of 200 jobs at the Findus owned company’s seafood plants in Grimsby: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/986627/78543/UK-Steps-in-to-Save-450-jobs-at-Youngs-Means-Two-Processing-Plants-Will-Stay-Open-in-Grimsby.

40. Workers are Hard Hit by Fish Farms, and the First to Lose Jobs. Port of Iquique denies Chilean salmon farmer extension, leaving its 1,000 workers in the area in a state of uncertainty over the future. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/10/camanchaca-concessions-extension-request-denied/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=58c07509b2-Salmon_roundup_Aug_14_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-58c07509b2-92426209

39 Conflicting Information in Fish Farm Industry. Marine Harvest, CEO of world’s largest salmon farmer says Q3 looking more positive, after challenging Q2 with lower prices in Norway, UK, Canada and losses in Chile. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/12/marine-harvest-sees-salmon-market-picking-up-after-challenging-q2/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=58c07509b2-Salmon_roundup_Aug_14_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-58c07509b2-92426209)Add falling sales in USA, and the boom bust nature of fish farms, those large salmon in Norway, and so on. There are conflicting reports in the media on a daily basis.

38. Marine Harvest Has Falling Sales in USA. Slow sales at low prices, when it invested heavily in capital raising last year. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/12/marine-harvest-plans-new-value-added-concepts-to-spur-us-market/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=58c07509b2-Salmon_roundup_Aug_14_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-58c07509b2-92426209The question is the sales potential of BC, Canada's farmed fish.

37. Boom Bust Cycle in Fish Farms. Marine Harvest, Norway, the boom side was the high prices for large salmon. Now, the bust part of the cycle: after six consecutive weeks of gains, prices for Norwegian farmed salmon take a plunge, with the formerly-soaring large salmon facing the biggest drop. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/14/heavy-harvest-brings-salmon-spot-price-crashing-back-down/After?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=58c07509b2-Salmon_roundup_Aug_14_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-58c07509b2-92426209

36. ISA, The Worst Fish Farm Disease, Reported in Chile. See: (http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/13/chilean-fishing-regulator-announces-new-isa-case/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=d4689ed76b-Americas_briefing_Aug_13_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-d4689ed76b-92426209

35. Workers Suffer Fish Farm Boom Bust Cycle. Starkist America's Samoa plant will lay off 2,000 workers if tuna doesn't arrive within the week.See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/12/starkists-american-samoa-plant-risks-2000-job-losses-without-tuna-deliveries/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=5dc34e16ab-Americas_briefing_Aug_12_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-5dc34e16ab-92426209

34. Fish Farms are Full of Diseases. In Norway, there were 11 outbreaks of Pancreas Disease in June. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/07/pd-outbreaks-down-in-norway-this-year/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=ef7eefd97b-Europe_briefing_Aug_10_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-ef7eefd97b-92426209

33. Fish Farms Cancelled for Tourism. In a surprise move that will have fish farms worried, Chile, Subpesca, cancels 5 authorized fish farm concessions because it want to focus on tourism in Tortel. Even the dirtiest fish farm country in the world realizes that fish farms eliminate tourism dollars. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/10/chile-withdraws-proposal-to-set-up-salmon-farms-in-tortel-commune/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=ef7eefd97b-Europe_briefing_Aug_10_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-ef7eefd97b-92426209

32. Fish Farms Sell Diseased Fish. Marine Harvest has had to recall its Chilean salmon due to listeria. In California, Arizona, Nevada. Diseased fish sold to Costco. See: (http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/03/marine-harvest-chilean-salmon-fillets-recalled-for-listeria/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2081838181-Salmon_roundup_Aug_07_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2081838181-92426209

31. Boom Bust Nature of Fish Farms and Industry. Chilean salmon exports drop 21.6% in value in first half of 2015, some $1.81 billion. This is almost as bad as the ISA disease crisis that wiped out more than $2 billion worth of fish, some quarter of a billion dead fish in 2008, and 13,000 jobs.. (http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/06/chilean-salmon-exports-drop-21-6-in-value/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2081838181-Salmon_roundup_Aug_07_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2081838181-92426209

30. Boom Bust Nature of Fish Farms and Industry. Maruha Nichiro, worlds largest seafood firm, has 31% drop in income in Q1 due to low wild salmon prices. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/04/maruha-nichiro-takes-q1-hit-from-low-alaska-salmon-prices/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2081838181-Salmon_roundup_Aug_07_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2081838181-92426209

29. Boom Bust Nature of Fish Farms and Industry. Agrosuper-owned salmon firm Los Fiordos advised by brokerage firm to drive growth through a merger or strategic partnership. See: (http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/05/los-fiordos-eyes-partner-merger-to-improve-margins/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2081838181-Salmon_roundup_Aug_07_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2081838181-92426209

27. Boom Bust Nature of Fish Farms and related industries. Associated Seafood, UK, slides deeper into the red. See: (http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/07/associated-seafoods-slides-deeper-into-red-on-back-of-frozen-langoustine-exit/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2081838181-Salmon_roundup_Aug_07_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2081838181-92426209

26. Fish farms are a boom/bust industry. Aug 8 Aim of deal between salmon importer Direct Ocean and shrimp and crab supplier Freshpack is not driven by synergies on sales side, but by scaling up for securing financing. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/08/03/deal-between-french-shrimp-salmon-firms-driven-by-need-to-be-bigger/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2081838181-Salmon_roundup_Aug_07_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2081838181-92426209

25. Farmed fish banned from Port Moody public events. Port Moody council has been against farmed fish for its high environmental damage for many years and finally banned the product recently. See: http://www.thenownews.com/news/port-moody-says-no-to-farmed-salmon-1.2022061

24. Fish farms fish down the ocean food chain to feed carnvore fish. Because most of the world's forage fish have been caught, many billions of tonnes for fish farms, fish farms are fishing down the food chain all the way to krill, particularly in the Antarctic. What's lower: algae? The answer is to raise vegetarian fish on land, like tilapia. See: (http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/07/17/antarctic-krill-fishery-under-pressure-from-growing-commercial-interest/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=8573008d4e-Americas_briefing_Jul_17_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-8573008d4e-92426209)

23. Fish farms abuse and kill sea lions. July 17, 2015. This happens all over the world and one would think that PETA would have come down hard on salmon farms over the decades. The current case is farm workers abusing and killing sea lions in Chile. These sentient creatures weight up to a ton. See: http://www.intrafish.com/news/article1416083.ece. See also: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/07/17/sernapesca-files-formal-complaint-over-salmon-farm-workers-animal-abuse/.

22. Boom Bust Nature of Fish Farming.Close on the heels of the negatives below, now there is a boom suggestion in Norway. It ignores the huge environmental cost of increasing production by 5 times, meaning 500% in the next several decades. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/07/17/norway-can-up-exports-six-fold-over-next-35-years/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=7b553aef31-Salmon_roundup_Jul_17_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-7b553aef31-92426209.

21. Fish farms result in negative employment growth, by wiping out jobs in other sectors. Abalone sector in Tasmania shows job losses resulting from fish farms, protest to government. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/07/16/chinese-aquaculture-company-plans-investment-in-eastern-russia-2-108/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=697c70edfe-Americas_briefing_Jul_16_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-697c70edfe-92426209.

20. Residents all over the world overwhelmingly reject fish farms, while governments are in conflict with fish farms. NS trout farm gets licence renewal despite strong local opposition. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/07/16/chinese-aquaculture-company-plans-investment-in-eastern-russia-2-109/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=697c70edfe-Americas_briefing_Jul_16_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-697c70edfe-92426209

19. Boom Bust Cycle - even worse for Marine Harvest. Q2 losses of 42% on Chile farms nose dive. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/07/16/marine-harvest-q2-earnings-expected-to-dive-on-chilean-losses/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=697c70edfe-Americas_briefing_Jul_16_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-697c70edfe-92426209.

18. From the Strictest laws in the world to the weakest. Fish farms like to say, in individual jurisdictions, that they operate under the strictest laws in the world, and then behind the scenes lobby for the weakest laws, and that gives them leverage in other countries to first say they are the strictest, to the public, then lobby for weaker laws because they’ll have to move if it doesn’t happen. That is what is happening in Canada right now. See the following article for the communications spin that they like to use, which has been rebutted in many posts on this blog: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/983063/77499/Canada-Fish-Farmers-Assoc-Says-Revamped-Fish-Farming-Regs-Will-Improve-Aquaculture-Practices.

"This shows that this industry has become so big that no one so far has dared to challenge it," he says."

135. Fraudulent Labelling of Farmed As Wild Salmon, USA - Oceana's Salmon Fraud Report. See: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2015/11/06/alaskan-fishermen-find-silver-lining-in-salmon-fraud-report/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=65a96dc086-Salmon_roundup_Nov_06_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-65a96dc086-92426209)

Fish Farm News And Science

Wednesday, 1 July 2015

KEY Document - 442 Fish Farm News Bites, Updated May 6, 2016

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