Fish Farm News And Science: January 2018

I receive 30 global press fish farm/seafood industry newsletters every week. In these, I have found a startling amount of bad news, and decided to do a post on it. I had no idea there was as much bad news as there is.

I am at my eighth post. In little more than two years, I have found 2500 BAD NEWS BITES. Some days I am stunned by the amount of bad news in the fish farm/seafood industry. Find the fifth BAD NEWS BITES post here: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2017/05/bad-news-bites-fifth-post.html. And that reaches 2,000.

This is the link to the fourth post, Jan 14, 2017, it has 500 BAD NEWS BITES in it: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2017/01/bad-news-bites.html. it has links to the previous three posts since July 2015. You can find earlier ones at these links.

Here is a summary of the bad news stories:

"In one mouthful, here are the kind of stories I am finding: boom bust industry, billions made and lost, crisis in lice and disease, bankruptcy, 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 whales, seals and sea lions – more than 12,000 in BC so far, slavery, unpaid labour, taxpayers paying millions for diseased, dead fish – $177 Million in Canada, dueling 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 fungFicide in USA seafood, fake industry awards, all the wild salmon in the Pacific ocean, more than a billion, put in peril... it goes on."

Update, Dec 11, 2017: I have found 500 BAD NEWS BITES in less than 3.5 months. That means well over 1000 in a year. That is how much bad news there is in fish farms/seafood industry. This post, the sixth, may be found here: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2017/08/bad-news-bites-salmonseafood-industry.html.

Here is the beginning of this post: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2017/12/bad-news-bites-salmonseafood-idustry.html. And now, the BAD NEWS BITES leading from this most recent
post:

500. Boom - anchovy fishery in Peru, for fish feed: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/29/perus-anchovy-fishing-about-to-start-positive-cycle-says-exalmar-ceo/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=e9d16cf20b-Europe_briefing_Mar_29_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-e9d16cf20b-92426209.

499. Industry Summary - USA: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/12/us-fisheries-leader-oliver-asserts-business-minded-stance-at-boston-2018/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=314b9d1416-Recap_Boston_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_483b84eead-314b9d1416-92334001.

The sector is not being regulated sufficiently or effectively
The report also called for a "precautionary" approach to expansion of the industry based on outstanding environmental concerns being resolved. It added: "The status quo is not an option."'

the world’s salmon, yet virtually none of this came from farms. In 1999, BC

produced 5% of the world’s farmed salmon and only 1% of the world’s wild

salmon. Between 1990 and 2000, commercial landings of BC wild salmon

declined by over 80%, while output from salmon farming increased over 80%

(23,300 tonnes to 43,900 tonnes; Egan 2001). BC farms have become very

successful, and their production continues to increase. Farm stocks, while

biased toward an exotic species (81% Atlantic salmon), also include a native

component (19% Pacific salmon in 1999)." DFO has not done it's job.

"It is the second time in three months Franz has acted to end Cooke’s leases. The company lost its lease at Port Angeles in December and now has only four of its original nine sites in Washington available for operation. The two terminations cancel about 42 percent of the company’s production capacity of Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound, according to the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Its remaining locations are in Rich Passage and near Anacortes at Hope Island. "

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Tuesday, 23 January 2018

BAD NEWS BITES - Updated Mar 27, 2018