Thanks
to readers from around the world who are concerned about the environmental
damage from in-ocean fish farms, this www.fishfarmnews.blogspot.com site has become a global
success. Without any advertising or driving of page views, it has received
85,000 page views in the three years since being set up. And the rate is
growing. In the coming year, it looks like an additional 50,000, or 60% more
page views, in one year alone.
The purpose of the site has always been to summarize science, some 20,000 pages now, and global fish farm press. I often read 100 pages of such news per week to aid writing these posts.
The purpose of the site has always been to summarize science, some 20,000 pages now, and global fish farm press. I often read 100 pages of such news per week to aid writing these posts.
I
have placed all posts in an index in this post so that you have reference to
all the posts in one place. I often go back and update posts, so even ones from
three years ago can contain new information. Without
doubt the post on the 69 Closed Containment, On-land fish farm systems I have found
around the world, and that comprise more than 8000 such farms, is far and away
the most viewed post on this site. The world wants fish farms out of the ocean.
And
of great humour, Marine Harvest, Cermaq (now Mitsubishi?) and Grieg Seafood,
who are unwilling to give their real names in my list of followers, obviously
follow my site closely and read everything I write the second it comes up on
fishfarmnews. That is because of the 85,000 page views the site has gotten,
almost 12,000 are from Norway, or one in 7 page views.
I
get requests for information from concerned citizens around the globe who want
the old-tech in-ocean fish farms moved out of the ocean, put on land or to go
back to Norway where they are from. I get requests for information from the
press around the world and am considered a top commentator on many newspaper
websites. I do this without receiving any money from anyone. I do it to stand up for wild BC salmon, something the conflicted DFO does not do.
My
approach has always been to put up the reference links so that when I make a
post, a reader can go back to them, read them for themselves and come to their
own conclusions. Obviously, there are a lot of people around the world who consider
this site a major voice on the serious environmental problems that in-ocean
fish farms create. They need to come out of the water, or they will go under
because informed consumers will no longer buy their products. For example, in
BC, Canada, 85% of farmed product has to be sold outside the country because Canadians
won’t buy it - we eat wild or Kuterra salmon only.
It
all goes to the USA. But the parent companies are now shipping into the USA
because a tariff was lifted and are now trying to open up in the USA, so they
are in competition with their own offshoot companies in Canada, and could
likely put them out of business. Chile, also heavily Norwegian, is a major
shipper to the USA, too.
Thanks
everyone for your positive comments.
2014 Posts
Atlantic/Wild Pacific Salmon Crosses – eggs and milt
$93 Million for Diseased Fish – Taxpayer money paid to fish farms for diseased, dead fish.
Conflict of Interest Continues - DFO backs farmed salmon, not wild salmon
Fish Sales Fraud in
Europe and the United States
Key Document - More Fat in Farmed Salmon
than in Pizza
Sprinting Fraser Sockeye Die – New Research
Escaped Farmed Salmon/Trout in Norway
Global Fish Farm Environmental Degradation
NZ Talley Says Only Future for Farmed Fish is On-land
ISA in Canada - 2013, 2014
ISA in Canada
New Aquaculture Regulations in Canada
Key Document - Kuterra - Land Based Farmed Salmon
DFO and Nancy Greene Want Fish Farms in BC? We Don't Want Them In Our Ocean
Consumers Will Only Buy Closed-Containment Salmon
Weakening the ‘Strictest’ Fish Farm Laws in the World
ISA - New Infections - Norway, Chile
Nancy Greene Raine and Federal Senators – Please Support Wild BC Salmon
Nancy Greene Raine – Wants Fish Farms? What About Wild BC Salmon?
Fish Farm Sewage – DFO Expansions Cost You Money
Fish Farm Sewage - Causes Algal Blooms
Key Document - Taxpayer Money for Diseased Dead Fish
Fish Farm Diseases - ISA in Norway and ETC.
Key Document - Taxpayer Money for Diseased Dead Fish
Fish Farm Sewage - Causes Algal Blooms
Key Document - Taxpayer Money for Diseased Dead Fish
Fish Farm Diseases - ISA in Norway and ETC.
Key Document - Taxpayer Money for Diseased Dead Fish
2013 Posts
Most Stringent FIsh Farm Laws in the World - Not
Sea Lice Kill 34% of Wild Salmon Smolts – Ireland - Updated
Chile: Millions of Escaped Farmed S, Updated
Harper Government Dismantling Canadian Government Science Resources, Updated
Key Document: Cohen Commission Website, Updated Dec 20, 2013 – Update on ISA
DFO Aquaculture Licencing
Mainstream – Slaughtered fish Money, Clayoquot Sound – Updated – David Miller Articles
Fish Farm Companies Make Taxpayer Money from Diseased Fish - Updated
Key Document - Land-Based Closed-Containment Fish Farm Science 2013, Updated
IPN - Fish Farms Cause Disease
Cohen Commission Report - One Year Later
65 On-land Fish Farm Systems
Cermaq Mainstream Owned by Norwegian Public - Updated
Critique: Mary Ellen Walling Letter to Victoria Times - Kibenge
KEY DOCUMENT - Slaughtered, Diseased Fish Farm Salmon Compensated with Taxpayer Dollars
Norwegians Won't Eat Farmed Salmon - that Means Marine Harvest, Cermaq Mainstream, Grieg Seafood and Others
CFIA Can't Find Disease Updated
Fish Farm Salmon High In Toxic Chemicals
ISA in BC Salmon - DFO States the Opposite of the Truth
64 On-land Fish Farm Systems, Comprising more than 8,100 On land Fish Farms Around the World, Updated
Morton and Ecojustice take Keith Ashfield, Marine Harvest to Court Over PRV Transferred To the Pacific Ocean
Salmon Confidential - Debunking Fish Farm Claims
Global Fish Farm Diseases - Updated
Sport Fishing - How We $$tack Up, Updated
Fish Farms Kill More Than 50% of Wild Salmon, Updated
Key Document: Global Fish Farm Diseases - Updated
2012 Posts
DFO Refuses to Admit ISA Virus is in BC Wild Salmon
Move Fish Farms Out of Clayoquot Sound To Save Wild Salmon
Cohen Commission Report Released, Oct. 31, 2012
Salmon Farm Activist Acquitted of Defamation
Don Staniford Acquitted of Defaming Mainstream Canada
Fish Farms Kill Seals and Sea Lions Around the World
Key Document: Fish Farms Damage Ocean Bottoms
Key Document - Fish Farm Diseases That Infect Humans
BAP Awards Not Awards - Updated
"Red Alert' - Elena Edwards Note to DFO
Key Document: BC Conservative Members Who Voted Against Wild BC Salmon
GAPI Report - Aquaculture Awards Not Environmentally Justifiable - June 2, 2012
IHN in BC Salmon Farms, Updated
KEY LINKS - Fish Farm Share Prices and Financial Information, Updated
Fish Farms Infect Wild BC Salmon,
Harper's EU Trade Agreement
Norway - Wild Salmon Numbers
CFIA - Double Standard on ISA
Key Document - Low Dose Hormones Lead to Worse Health Problems
LICE In Norway/LICE in BC
More ISA in BC
Google: Consumers Don't Buy Farmed Salmon
Key Document - Agrimarine Losses - Updated
KEY DOCUMENT - Farmed Fish Prices Will Tank in 2012 - Updated
Key Document - EU Welfare Platform
KEY DOCUMENT: CFIA Testing of ISA in BC,
2012 In Review - Chile and Norway at Odds
KEY DOCUMENT - Royal Society of Canada - DFO Failing Canada's Oceans
Critique of Fish Farm Advertisement in
HSMI - A New Viral Infection of Farmed Salmon
Key Document - 69 Mostly On-land, Closed- Containment, Fish Farm Systems - More Than 8,100 actual farms - Updated
Key Fish Farm Statistics - Keith Ashfield Jan 11, 2012 News Release
ISA - Deficiencies in BC Testing System, DFO and CFIA
2011
Posts
Unspinning Fish Farm Spin
Key Document - PCR Testing by BC G
KEY DOCUMENTS - OIE ISA Testing Manual, Cohen Commission Hearings, Dec 15, 16, 19, 2011 - Updated
“KEY DOCUMENTS” - Organic Seafood Does Not Include Farmed Atlantic Salmon, Updated
ISA
Testing for Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/12/isa-testing-for-salmon.html.
KEY BC NEWS - ISA Disease in BC
KEY DOCUMENTS - High Levels of PC PCBs, POPs and other Chemicals in Farmed Fish - Updated
ISA Breaks Out In Chile Again, Nov 3 - Updated
Fish Farm Diseases Pass Genes to Human Diseases
MINISTER Ashfield Denies BC ISA
ISA - Current Press - Updated
CHILE Wants Compensation from Norway and Norwegian Fish Farms
Fish Farm Deaths - 29 Million Dead Fish
Closed, On-land Fish Farm Systems - Post being developed - Updated
FISH FARM MYTHS - A Growing List - Updated
KEY LINKS - Fish Farm Share Prices a and Financial Information, Updated
KEY DOCUMENT - Fish Farm Tactics: Spinwatch.org, Updated
KEY LINKS to Fish Farm News and Science
Introductory List of Fish Farm Issues
KEY DOCUMENT - ISA Infections World Wide Since 1984 - Updated
ISA in BC - Actions Needed Now
ISA Confirmed in BC - Salmon Extinction Possible
Cohen Commission Testimony - Dr. Kristi Miller, Updated
Global Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA)
Purpose of Fish Farm News and Science
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