BAD NEWS BITES - Updated Mar 27, 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.

Consolidation of Med bass, bream sector to expand beyond Greece NOAA is pro-aquaculture, but won’t weigh in on salmon farm ban Chilean salmon industry avoids breaking brand with US push Kingfish Zeeland plans to build new RAS farm in the US   Shrimp importer Blue Sea adds Lees and his 2.5m lbs of scallops Norwegian salmon giant Cermaq eyes upstream growth Brazil chicken giant expands tilapia production Chinese tilapia raw material prices higher, but set to drop again Brazil’s GeneSeas expands tilapia output, builds new plant As Brexit looms, Scottish seafood companies target North America Iberconsa aims to grow value-added production to increase retail sales

498. Illegal Fishers Nabbed - Australia, crab, lobster, PNG:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/27/australian-authorities-pick-up-png-vessels-for-suspected-iuu-fishing/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=ed99b90b55-Americas_briefing_Mar_27_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-ed99b90b55-92426209.

497.  Boom - Smuggling Crackdown, shrimp trade doubles, China: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/27/shrimp-trade-shift-hints-at-chinese-smuggling-crackdown-impact/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=ed99b90b55-Americas_briefing_Mar_27_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-ed99b90b55-92426209.

496. Huge On-land Farm - Atlantic Sapphire, Florida:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1096802/Atlantic%2DSapphire%2DBuilding%2DMassive%2DCold%2DWater%2DFish%2DFarm%2DIn%2DFlorida.

495. Stocking Cuts Too Late - Tasmania, salmon, Huon, MacQuarie Harbour:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/27/huon-macquarie-harbour-stocking-cuts-too-late/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=80224e36a4-Europe_briefing_Mar_27_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-80224e36a4-92426209.

494. Skuna Bay Kills 70 Seals/Sea Lions - 2010: https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/21/bc-sea-lion-seal-deaths-fish-farm_n_2522484.html.

493.Scotland Fails, Seal Killers Banned - USA: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/26/scotland-fails-to-win-us-exemption-over-salmon-farmers-seal-shooting/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=cb45c8f9ca-Americas_briefing_Mar_26_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-cb45c8f9ca-92426209.

492. Sustainable Seafood, Skuna Bay? - James Beard foundation, partners with seal killer, BC:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1096694/James%2DBeard%2DFoundation%2DAnnounces%2DNew%2DSustainable%2DSeafood%2DPartnership%2DWith%2DSkuna%2DBay%2Dand%2DOthers.

491. Protect Our Salmon - BC, aboriginals, non-aboriginals:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1096657/We%2DSalmon%2DPeople%2DWant%2DOur%2DFish%2DProtected%2DFor%2DFuture%2DGenerations.

490. Scotland Trying to Shield Seal Killers - USA wants to prevent killers from sending salmon to US: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1096671/Seal%2DShooting%2DScottish%2DGovernment%2DCaught%2DTrying%2Dto%2DShield%2DSalmon%2DFarming%2Dfrom%2DUS%2DBan.

489. Stinging Indictment of Farmed Salmon as Food - Mercola: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2018/03/24/why-farmed-salmon-are-toxic.aspx?utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20180324Z1_UCM&et_cid=DM200215&et_rid=255203834.

488.  'Not Our Fish' - Ireland, fish farmers says escaped Atlantics in rivers, not theirs: https://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/no-escapes-to-report-say-salmon-producers-after-farmed-fish-caught-in-rivers-36218412.html.

487. Fish Farms Banned - Sweden, high court:  https://savethebaltic.wordpress.com/2017/03/15/the-swedish-supreme-environmental-court-has-decided-to-ban-and-stopp-fish-farming-in-cages-in-open-water/. "a result of the so called Weser-judgement from the EU-Court in combination with new Environmental Quality Norms in water in Sweden. The three banned farms will be successively closed within 3 years. The Court question whether cages in open water is the best technique and they also question the possibility for the affected waters to break down the amounts of nutrients [means sewage] delivered by the farming without being eutrophicated. This judgement will probably bring to an end all fish farming in open cages affecting waters not having reached Good Ecological Status."

486.  Court Case into Blocking Fish Farms - BC, Namgis, Ernest Alfred, we can only hope they win the case to prevent PRV infected fish being put in the water: http://business.financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/b-c-first-nation-in-federal-court-in-bid-to-halt-fish-farm-restocking.

485. Boom/Bust Cycle - Greece, bass and bream industry hit with growth then bankruptcy:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1454766/taking-the-boom-and-bust-out-of-bass-and-bream?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=772a99e211-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-772a99e211-244877629.

484. Algal Bloom Kills Salmon - Chile, Camanchaca, 5% of salmon dead:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1455484/camanchaca-chiles-salmon-growth-expectations-curbed-by-algal-bloom?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=772a99e211-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-772a99e211-244877629.

483. Science Fuels RAS Boom - Summerfelt, VA:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1454623/how-research-is-fueling-the-ras-boom?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=772a99e211-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-772a99e211-244877629.

482. On-land Fish Farm, Norway - Salmo Terra, new, expands to 8,000mt: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1458706/new-norwegian-land-based-salmon-farm-ups-production-outlook?%20Aquaculture%20Newsletter&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-772a99e211-244877629.

481. 'Governor Signs Cooke Death Warrant' - Inslee signs bill to end in-ocean fish farming, WA: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1457653/its-done-governor-signs-cookes-death-sentence?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=772a99e211-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-772a99e211-244877629.

480. WA Eliminates Fish Farms - ASF:  http://asf.ca/washington-state-phases-out-atlantic-salmon-farming.html.

479. Expansion Wrong - Tasmania, MacQuarie Harbour salmon mass to be reduced, science wrong:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1096509/Tasmanias%2DMacquarie%2DHarbour%2DSalmon%2DExpansion%2DScience%2DWrong.

478. Scottish Seafood Targets NA - with Brexit looming, Scottish seafood to target NA, making it even more difficult for CDN fish farms to sell into USA, along with the huge on land fish farms coming on stream in US:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/19/as-brexit-looms-scottish-seafood-companies-target-north-america/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=e0f6a7d0f0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-e0f6a7d0f0-92426209.

477. Oligopolies/Cartels - SeaChill, UK, 'consolidation' in industry: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/22/seachill-ceo-more-consolidation-contract-shifts-coming-in-uk/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=e0f6a7d0f0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-e0f6a7d0f0-92426209.

476.  GMO Salmon - Marine Harvest, genetic 'fine tuning': https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/23/marine-harvest-eyes-genetic-selection-to-fine-tune-its-salmon/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=e0f6a7d0f0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-e0f6a7d0f0-92426209.

475. Fish Farms Elminiated - WA, Gov Jay Inslee signed a bill into law to phase out fish farms: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/22/cooke-activists-wrap-up-lobbying-as-washington-governor-mulls-fish-farm-ban-bill/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=e0f6a7d0f0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-e0f6a7d0f0-92426209.

474. Toothfish Poacher Arrested - Liberia: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/22/notorious-toothfish-poacher-arrested-in-liberia/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9d0c51ee97-Americas_briefing_Mar_22_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9d0c51ee97-92426209.

473. Same Old Spin - we feed the growing, hungry population. What they are not saying is that the hungry can't afford their salmon, and they have trashed 19 of 20 ocean forage fish for feed, that should have gone to feed people, Cermaq:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/22/cermaqs-ceo-defends-salmon-farming-in-face-of-likely-washington-ban/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9d0c51ee97-Americas_briefing_Mar_22_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9d0c51ee97-92426209.

472. Bad News About Fish Farms - Fl, USA:  http://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/food/cooking/The-facts-about-farmed-salmon-you-wish-you-didn-t-know_166193900?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=4848962801-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-4848962801-166907249&mc_cid=4848962801&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

471. Big Environmental Risk - for wild salmon, Bruoghton fish farms, WCEL: https://www.wcel.org/blog/salmon-are-our-buffalo-environmental-risks-fish-farms-in-broughton-archipelago?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=4848962801-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-4848962801-166907249&mc_cid=4848962801&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

470. New Science Committee - CDN, Nemer:  https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/03/21/news/federal-chief-science-advisor-investigate-fish-farms?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=4848962801-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-4848962801-166907249&mc_cid=4848962801&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

469. In-ocean Days Numbered - BC, last jurisdiction that allows fish farms:  https://www.desmog.ca/2018/03/14/b-c-about-become-last-place-west-coast-allow-open-net-fish-farms?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=4848962801-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-4848962801-166907249&mc_cid=4848962801&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

468. Mass Fish Kill - Tasmania, MacQuarie Harbour, 1 million salmon dead: https://www.et.org.au/release_mass_fish_kill_numbers_now?utm_campaign=mass_fish_kill&utm_medium=email&utm_source=environmenttasmania.

467. Fake News - fish farm stats, BC: https://www.northislandgazette.com/editorials-opinion/our-view-fish-farm-issues-are-a-big-deal/. "And the BC Salmon Farmer’s Association reports that overall, farming and processing of 92,800 metric tonnes of salmon in 2016 resulted in over $1.5-billion towards the B.C. economy." It's actually 1700 multiplier jobs, not 6600, and only $469M, not the fish farm figure more than 300% higher. See the BC Stats report on the fishing sectors.

466. Chefs Against Farmed Salmon - :  http://www.nofarmedsalmon.com/.

465. 'Boondoggle' - Grieg, Placentia Bay, NL project:  http://www.thetelegram.com/opinion/letter-the-proposed-grieg-placentia-bay-salmon-farming-project-another-boondoggle-194756/#.WrEmttNVX1A.facebook.

464. 'Scarily High' Prices - salmon, 70K, Norway:  http://www.intrafish.com/prices/1450074/norwegian-salmon-prices-reach-scarily-high-levels?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5d91dd9e84-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-5d91dd9e84-245113141.

463. Algal Bloom Stunts Growth - Camanchaca, Chile, salmon:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1455484/camanchaca-chiles-salmon-growth-expectations-curbed-by-algal-bloom?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5d91dd9e84-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-5d91dd9e84-245113141.

462. 'Massive Expansion' - Brazil, Geneseas, shrimp:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1455466/brazilian-tilapia-firm-plans-20-percent-production-growth?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e2c953aec9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-e2c953aec9-244877629.

461. Open Marine Parks to Fishing? - Australia, getting slammed:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1096218/Australia%2DProposes%2DOpening%2DMore%2DMarine%2DParks%2Dto%2DCommercial%2DFishing.

460. Anti-Dumping Duty - Vietnam, USA:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/21/vietnam-exporters-plan-complaint-with-us-court-over-anti-dumping-duties/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=60cf750bb4-Americas_briefing_Mar_21_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-60cf750bb4-92426209.

459. Litigious Industry - Tasmania, Huon, MacQuarie Harbour case:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/21/huon-exec-denies-financial-motivation-for-macquarie-harbour-court-action/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=60cf750bb4-Americas_briefing_Mar_21_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-60cf750bb4-92426209

458. Arnarlax Loses 1000t - due to cold water, salmon, Iceland: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/21/arnarlax-chairman-estimates-loss-of-10-of-salmon/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=60cf750bb4-Americas_briefing_Mar_21_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-60cf750bb4-92426209.

457. US/CDN Aboriginals Unite Against Fish Farms - finally, aboriginals from both sides of the border unite to get fish farms out of the water: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/wash-tribes-first-nations-unite-to-end-atlantic-salmon-net-pen-fish-farms-across-west-coast/. "“If there are fish there [Swanson Island fish farm] again, there will be war on the water,” Alfred said."

456. Heavy Mortalities - Arnarlax, Iceland, salmon, due to low water temperature: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/20/icelands-arnarlax-sees-heavy-mortalities-due-to-cold-waters/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f2965bbd93-Europe_briefing_Mar_20_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f2965bbd93-92426209.

455. Boom - Chile, Australis Seafoods, to build plant for 71,000mt:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/16/salmon-farmer-australis-plans-70m-plant-in-chiles-magallanes-region/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9636066bb5-Europe_briefing_Mar_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9636066bb5-92426209.

454. Illegal Harvest Methods - Philipines, crowbars, poisons, explosives: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/19/quarter-of-fishing-in-the-philippines-relies-on-illegal-methods/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9636066bb5-Europe_briefing_Mar_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9636066bb5-92426209.

453. Disease - ISA, Cooke, harvests diseased farm, NL:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/16/cooke-harvests-newfoundland-salmon-farm-after-isa-find/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9636066bb5-Europe_briefing_Mar_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9636066bb5-92426209.

452. Fish Farms to Transition to Land - BC, minister: http://asf.ca/bc-minister-interested-in-moving-salmon-farms-on-land.html.

451. Disease Investigation - USDA site:  https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-disease-information/aquaculture/general-information. This is like the CFIA site in CDN.

450. Disease - ISA, USA research document on the entire subject: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_dis_spec/aquaculture/downloads/isa-proceedings.pdf.

449. Human Smuggling - Vietnam border:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1095465/Guangzhou%2DCustoms%2DSeize%2D14%2DPeople%2Din%2Danother%2DVietnam%2DBorder%2DSmuggling%2DGang%2DArrest.

448.  Raucous Protest Meeting - Grieg, NL, Placentia Bay project: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1095466/Grieg%2DHolds%2DRaucous%2DPublic%2DInformation%2DMeeting%2Don%2DSalmon%2DProject%2Dfor%2DPlacentia%2DBay.

447. Protest - NL, Grieg Placentia Bay project:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/14/opposition-aired-at-meeting-for-griegsnewfoundland-salmon-farming-project/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=1215576aca-Europe_briefing_Mar_15_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-1215576aca-92426209.

446. Boom and Then Bust - Germany, supplier, fast growing, yet slides into insolvency:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/14/fast-growing-german-supplier-slides-into-insolvency/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=1215576aca-Europe_briefing_Mar_15_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-1215576aca-92426209.

445. Aboriginals Against Fish Farm, In Court - BC: http://asf.ca/namgis-first-nation-in-federal-court-to-halt-salmon-farm-re.html.

444. Boom - Norway salmon sales to China up four times:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1095594/Norwegian%2DSalmon%2DExports%2Dto%2DChina%2DExcluding%2DHong%2DKong%2DFell%2DLast%2DWeek%2DBut%2Dup%2D4%2DTimes%2Dfrom%2DA%2DYear%2DAgo.

443. Jailed for Tax Evasion - Estudante, USA:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1095628/New%2DBedford%2DSeafood%2DWholesaler%2DGeorge%2DF%2DEstudante%2DSentenced%2DFor%2DTax%2DEvasion.

442. More Sewage in the Ocean - Scotland, consultant, Luxmoore:  http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16086953.One_fish_farm_produces_waste_equivalent_to__all_of_Scotland_s_west_coast_towns_/.
"He told a Holyrood committee: “A single fish farm, which currently has a maximum size at the moment of 2,500 tonnes, produces the sewage equivalent of a town twice the size of Oban"

441. Disease - EMS, shrimp, India:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/15/india-warns-bengals-shrimp-farmers-as-bangladesh-reports-suspected-ems/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=935c9d01b4-Europe_briefing_Mar_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-935c9d01b4-92426209.

440. UK Govt May Be Sued - UK anglers, 1 million wild wrasse (cleaner fish) caught per year:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/12/anglers-could-sue-uk-govt-over-wrasse-catches-for-salmon-farming/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f21bdf5db0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f21bdf5db0-92426209.

439. Opposition to Grieg in NL - public against proposal for Placentia Bay:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/14/opposition-aired-at-meeting-for-griegsnewfoundland-salmon-farming-project/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f21bdf5db0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f21bdf5db0-92426209.

438. Fish Farm Sewage High - UK consultant.  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/15/one-salmon-farm-produces-waste-equivalent-to-multiple-towns-inquiry-hears/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f21bdf5db0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f21bdf5db0-92426209. One farm puts out more sewage than all of Scotland's west towns.

437. On-land Accelerates - Aquabanq, USA, to 5000mt in 12 months:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/14/aquabanq-accelerates-plans-for-5000t-us-land-based-salmon-farm/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f21bdf5db0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f21bdf5db0-92426209.

436. Offshore Farming - washes all of the issues into the open ocean, for example, sewage, set for growth according to Salmar:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/15/salmars-witzoe-offshore-salmon-farming-is-best-prospect-for-growth/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f21bdf5db0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f21bdf5db0-92426209

435. Disease - Cooke, Atlantic Canada, ISA, fish harvested, presumably to the Canadian market wherer ISA will be washed down drains all across the country:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/16/cooke-harvests-newfoundland-salmon-farm-after-isa-find/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f21bdf5db0-Salmon_roundup_Mar_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f21bdf5db0-92426209.

434. Drug Raid - Florida captain: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1095758/Florida%2DCommercial%2DFishing%2DCaptain%2DArrested%2DDuring%2DDrug%2DRaid.

433. Victoria Against In-ocean Fish Farms - BC, Victoria:  http://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/city-of-victoria-firmly-opposes-open-net-fish-farms-1.23118127?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles.

432. Aboriginals In Court - BC, against PRV salmon stocking: https://www.northislandgazette.com/news/namgis-first-nations-takes-legal-action-against-restocking-of-fish-farms/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=45e729dfb6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-45e729dfb6-166907249&mc_cid=45e729dfb6&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

431. 'Shocking Levels of Fish Death' - Scotland, 25,737 mt, 11 million dead fish, Marine Harvest the worst at 7066mt dead fish:  http://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/2018/03/the-herald-video-disease-concern-as-scots-salmon-farmers-produce-stomach-churning-record-levels-of-f.html. There are lots of links in this one, so be sure to cruise the entire post,

430. NL Against In-ocean Fish Farms - NL, Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49gU4hj7kdY.

429. Boom - Marine Harvest to build 2,000 salmon restaurants in China:  http://www.intrafish.com/marketplace/1449951/marine-harvest-to-open-2000-salmon-restaurants-in-china?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=8a4ce0ca55-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-8a4ce0ca55-245113141.

428. Push for Land-based - BC, minister: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1449339/bc-minister-pushes-to-transition-marine-aquaculture-to-land?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a14c49ef21-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-a14c49ef21-244877629.

427. Fraud - exec pleads guilty, National Fish/Sea Star:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/13/former-national-fish-sales-director-pleads-guilty-to-sea-star-fraud/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=13e9b8edd0-Americas_briefing_Mar_13_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-13e9b8edd0-92426209.

426. Antarctic Krill Non-sustainable - Greenpeace, being overfished, a fish feed constituent: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/13/antarctic-krill-not-as-sustainable-as-claimed-says-greenpeace/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=00aa605bcd-Europe_briefing_Mar_13_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-00aa605bcd-92426209.

425. Fake Environmental Charity? - Best Fishes, Scotland:  https://www.bestfishes.org.uk/.

424. Massive Salmon Deaths - Scotland, 25,000 mt:  http://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/2018/03/the-herald-video-disease-concern-as-scots-salmon-farmers-produce-stomach-churning-record-levels-of-f.html.

423. Seafood Fraud - Brazil: http://www.intrafish.com/marketplace/1440039/brazilian-authorities-crackdown-on-seafood-fraud-in-operation-holy-week?utm_source=IntraFish+Editor%27s+Picks+newsletter&utm_campaign=e913a1185e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4a44318b44-e913a1185e-244948953.

422. Illegal Drug - leucomalachite green, 69,000 pounds of catfish recalled, USA:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1095107/69000%2Dlbs%2Dof%2DUS%2DDomestic%2DCatfish%2DRecalled%2Dfor%2DContamination%2Dwith%2DMalachite%2DGreen%2Dby%2DUSDA.

421. Boom - Grieg expands:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/12/grieg-seafood-plans-ambitious-output-growth/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=0e4c57863c-Americas_briefing_Mar_12_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-0e4c57863c-92426209.

420. Boom - Sapmer, revenue leaps, 2017:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/12/sapmers-2017-revenues-leap-on-four-vessel-gain/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=0e4c57863c-Americas_briefing_Mar_12_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-0e4c57863c-92426209.

419. Disease - ISAV, NL, looks like an infectious strain, in a farm: http://inspection.gc.ca/animals/aquatic-animals/diseases/reportable/2018/infectious-salmon-anaemia-2018-/eng/1520361142560/1520361212232.

418. Offshore Fish Farm - more sewage into the open ocean, Norway: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/03/09/1420098/0/en/Norway-Royal-Salmon-ASA-NRS-Arctic-Offshore-Farming-granted-development-licenses.html. Norway Royal Salmon, Arctic Offshore Farming.

417. Fish Farms On-Land in BC? - the government notes that it intends to close the 22 licences that come up in June, and move the industry to land: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1094905/BC%2DProvincial%2DGovernment%2DHints%2Dat%2DMajor%2DShift%2DToward%2DLand%2DBased%2DAquaculture.
Thank you John Horgan and Andrew Weaver.

416.  Lice Data and Mortalities Not Public - Scotland, industry says it will release them, but the point is that industry tries to hide its problems while at the same time touting the strict environmental laws it operates under, usually untrue, and in this case obviously true: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/07/scottish-salmon-farmers-commit-to-make-lice-mortality-data-public/.

415. 'Irrecoverable Damage' - Scotland, effects of fish farms on environment, 'fish mortalities' unacceptable, 'little progress on environmental problems since 2002': https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/06/scottish-report-salmon-farming-risks-irrecoverable-damage-to-ecosystem/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2a71aa83f1-Salmon_roundup_Mar_09_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2a71aa83f1-92426209. As for laws: '

• 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."'

414. Get Fish Farms Out of BC Waters - Discovery Channel, Broughton Archipelago, Bob Chamberlin, VP, UBCIC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fish-farm-ban-washington-ban-bc-indigenous-undrip-1.4562800?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=0fa5fd7144-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-0fa5fd7144-214661381&mc_cid=0fa5fd7144&mc_eid=2d9d06674b.

413.  Get Fish Farms Out of BC Waters - Adam Olsen, MLA, Bob Chamberlin, UBCIC: https://www.straight.com/news/1040201/green-mla-adam-olsen-says-its-time-get-atlantic-salmon-out-bc-waters?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=0fa5fd7144-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-0fa5fd7144-214661381&mc_cid=0fa5fd7144&mc_eid=2d9d06674b.

412. Wild Salmon at All Time Low - NL, DFO scientists:  https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/msn/federal-scientists-deeply-concerned-about-salmon-stocks/ar-BBJUcBr?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=0fa5fd7144-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-0fa5fd7144-214661381&mc_cid=0fa5fd7144&mc_eid=2d9d06674b. Quote: ""When we have heavy lice, we tend to get later returns of salmon. They are delayed coming into the rivers, and late returns are generally poor returns."

411. Disease - Pancreatic Disease, PD, to spread in Norway:https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/08/study-predicts-spread-of-salmon-disease-in-norway/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=e0855079a9-Europe_briefing_Mar_08_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-e0855079a9-92426209.

410. High Fish Oil Prices - Peru anchovy low, in other words, fish farms are pillaging the Peru stocks just as they did Chile's:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/07/fish-oil-prices-jump-up-following-difficult-anchovy-season-in-peru/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=b846e987f2-Americas_briefing_Mar_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-b846e987f2-92426209.

409. Wild Salmon Secretariat - Adam Olsen, MLA, BC: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1094553/BC%2DGreen%2DMLA%2DProposes%2DDedicated%2DEntity%2Dto%2DStreamline%2DWild%2DSalmon%2DPolicy.

408. Minister Promises $24M for Fish Farms - instead of taking them out of the water. Sorry Dominic, that is naive:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlaquaculture/. LeBlanc said: "He also pointed to a $24-million investment in the Aquaculture Sustainability Program, which aims to streamline regulation, improve regulatory management and increase scientific knowledge of the sector."

407. Problem with Certification Schemes - ASCs, David Suzuki Foundation:  https://davidsuzuki.org/press/aquaculture-stewardship-council-certified-salmon-isnt-good-alternative/.

406. Fish Farm Ban Right Move in WA - now let's do it in BC, Chamberlin, UBCIC: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1094398/Indigenous%2DLeader%2DSays%2DFish%2DFarm%2DBan%2Dthe%2DRight%2DMove.

405. Land-based Gung Ho - BC, minister:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/06/british-columbia-minister-ready-to-transition-to-land-based-salmon/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=66ded00cc3-Europe_briefing_Mar_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-66ded00cc3-92426209.

404. More Cooke Troubles - CTV video:  https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1341572&binId=1.1145463&playlistPageNum=1#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=GSEmail&_gsc=0wlqDJU.

403. 'Irrecoverable Damage' - Scotland, fish farm impacts: http://asf.ca/scottish-govt-warns-of-salmon-farm-impacts.html.

402. The Naive, The Hubris, The Manipulation - Canada, to remain science based fish farm industry. Sad, but true:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/05/canada-remains-committed-to-evidence-based-decision-making-on-aquaculture-after-us-ban-bill-says-leblanc/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=97dbe69552-Europe_briefing_Mar_05_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-97dbe69552-92426209.

401. Disease - Peru, lake tilapia virus:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/05/peru-starts-hake-fishing-ban-confirms-presence-of-lake-tilapia-virus/.

400. March 5, 2018: Krill Monopoly? - Rokke, for feed, Norway: http://www.intrafish.com/fisheries/1436185/will-new-krill-licenses-lead-to-a-rokke-monopoly?utm_source=IntraFish+Editor%27s+Picks+newsletter&utm_campaign=3244105e0e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4a44318b44-3244105e0e-244948953.

399. Fish Farm Costs - BC, Otto Langer: http://www.raincoast.org/files/publications/reports/ghost-runs/ghostruns-chap5.pdf. He says this: "Before 1985, BC produced 15% of

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.

398. Bill Passed to get Cooke out of the Ocean - WA: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/bill-to-phase-out-atlantic-salmon-farming-in-washington-state-nears-deadline/.

397. New Bill to Phase out Fish Farms - WA, Alex Morton's site for March 3, 2018:  http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/.

396. New Bill - WA, passed to phase out fish farms! https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/first-nations-environmentalist-applaud-washington-state-vote-on-fish-farm-bill/ar-BBJOSKK.

395. Disease - Marine Harvest buying Northern Harvest Sea Farms hatcheries that have ISA, NS, $240M: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/02/canadian-hatcheries-hit-with-isa-are-growers-for-farmer-marine-harvest-is-buying/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=5a826a98b2-Americas_briefing_Mar_02_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-5a826a98b2-92426209.

394. Disease - ISA in  NS Smolt Hatchery - CBC coverage:  http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-infectious-salmon-anemia-1.4557629.

393. Suckered in by Call for Science? - WA, Bill to kill in-ocean fish farms:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/02/two-more-sign-appeal-for-science-briefing-ahead-of-washington-salmon-farming-ban-vote/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=c6da758fa4-Salmon_roundup_Mar_02_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-c6da758fa4-92426209.

392. Disease - ISA at two NS on-land farms, 600,000 smolts killed:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/02/isa-outbreak-in-nova-scotia-land-based-farms-kills-600000-smolts/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=c6da758fa4-Salmon_roundup_Mar_02_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-c6da758fa4-92426209.

391. Boom - China salmon sales increase 17% yoy, 37,700mt: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/02/fresh-salmon-wholesale-prices-in-china-jump-almost-30/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=c6da758fa4-Salmon_roundup_Mar_02_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-c6da758fa4-92426209.

390. Hot Summer Will Kill Salmon - NZ, King Salmon: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/01/nz-king-salmon-warns-hot-summer-survival-rates-will-hit-h2-results/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=693086f6b3-Americas_briefing_Mar_01_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-693086f6b3-92426209.

389.  Environmental Activists Against Fish Farms - USA: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/03/01/us-fish-farmers-brace-for-negative-campaign-from-animal-activists/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=693086f6b3-Americas_briefing_Mar_01_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-693086f6b3-92426209.


388.  Fish Farms 'Out of Control' - Ireland, escapes: http://connachttribune.ie/angry-anglers-claim-fish-farms-are-out-of-control-101/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=cbf8007f73-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-cbf8007f73-166907249&mc_cid=cbf8007f73&mc_eid=5777c92bcd. "Galway Bay Against Salmon Cages (GBASC), which was the organisation that first brought the escapes to light, said it was “shocked but not surprised” by the findings of the report."

387.  DFO Denies Meeting Access to Minister - NL, Gerry Byrne was not allowed a chair at the salmon stock assessment meeting. This is similar to the committee it put together in BC to assess the spread of IHN from farmed fish to wild sockeye. In that case, they refused to give its own committee the documents to make an informed assessment: http://www.thewesternstar.com/news/local/fisheries-minister-gerry-byrne-denied-access-to-dfo-science-meeting-on-salmon-189185/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=cbf8007f73-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-cbf8007f73-166907249&mc_cid=cbf8007f73&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

386. Minister, Gerry Byrnes Attacks ASF - NL, Atlantic Salmon Federation:  http://www.thetelegram.com/opinion/letter-youre-not-from-here--you-dont-understand-189272/.

385.  Trove of Fish Farm Kick Out Debate - BC, Lana Popham, 'threatening' tone: http://vancouversun.com/news/politics/documents-show-b-c-government-was-worried-that-letter-to-fish-farm-sounded-threatening.

384. Public Meeting - NL, Grieg, huge Placentia Bay project, 30,000mt. Public unhappy:  http://asf.ca/grieg-to-face-public-about-canada-salmon-farm-plans.html.

383. Fish Farms a Mess - NS, Cooke, et al: http://asf.ca/open-pen-fish-farming-a-mess.html.

382. Four Scientists Against Ban - industry/government scientists against WA ban : https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/28/us-scientists-call-on-washington-lawmakers-not-to-ban-salmon-farming/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=5f706b583e-Americas_briefing_Feb_28_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-5f706b583e-92426209.

381. Phase Out Bill HB2957 - fish farms, WA: http://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2957&Year=2017.

380. Worst Ever Peru Anchovy Result - Peru, fishmeal processor, Q4 2017:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/27/austevoll-q4-earnings-dive-on-worst-ever-peruvian-anchovy-result/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=bc37d69578-Americas_briefing_Feb_27_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-bc37d69578-92426209.

379. More Pac-Andes Trainwreck - China Fishery trustee, William Brandt: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/27/china-fishery-trustee-presses-on-in-probe-of-lender-liquidators/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=bc37d69578-Americas_briefing_Feb_27_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-bc37d69578-92426209.

378. Industry in a 'Bad Way' - salmon farming, Tasmania, MacQuarie Harbour, etc.: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1093603/The%2DBattle%2DOver%2DBig%2DSalmon%2DIndustry%2Dat%2Da%2DCrossroads%2Das%2DTasmania%2DVotes.

377. Cooke Made a PR Mess - WA, fish farms: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1440577/letter-cooke-made-a-pr-mess?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5bae608af8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-5bae608af8-244877629.

376. In-ocean Poorly Regulated - Tasmania, Huon: 
https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/26/huons-francis-bender-aussie-salmon-farming-sector-at-crossroads/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=cf69475157-Americas_briefing_Feb_26_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-cf69475157-92426209.
375.  Sano, Marine Harvest Exec Moves On Land - yellowtail from Netherlands to US: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/26/former-sano-marine-harvest-exec-brings-ras-farmed-dutch-yellowtail-to-us/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=cf69475157-Americas_briefing_Feb_26_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-cf69475157-92426209.

374. Towards 265 Million Dead Salmon - Norway:  http://www.nationen.no/kommentar/mot-265-millioner-dode-laks/. 53million died in 2017. And: "Veterinary Institute's Fisheries Report for 2017 shows a "waste" of 53 million salmon, mainly as a consequence of injury and disease. This means that 13 percent of the salmon in the cages died (some escaped) and 16 percent of the rainbow trout. Mortality was as great last year as in 2016. To use Dagblad's John O. Egeland's precise comment: "High mortality is a sure sign that the welfare of salmon is bad"."

373. Final Harvest for Fish Farms? - Cooke, WA: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1093459/Puget%2DSound%2DFish%2DFarms%2DCould%2Dbe%2DHeaded%2Dfor%2DFinal%2DHarvest.

372. More On-land in Maine - Whole Oceans: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1093348/Investors%2DSwoon%2Dover%2DLand%2Dbased%2DSalmon%2DFarming%2Din%2DMaine%2D2nd%2DCompany%2DBuys%2DMajor%2DSite.

371. More Escapes, Dead Fish - more Cooke, in NS, dumping dead fish in the ocean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPQL-28KUQY.

370. More On-land - Spain, amberjack:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1436805/spanish-ras-firm-expands-with-land-based-amberjack-farm?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e9ce10463c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-e9ce10463c-244877629.

369. Four Anti-fish farm Bills - WA, now 4 bills against industry, Cooke, in the system: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/17/cooke-decries-washington-salmon-farming-ban-bill/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2eaaa91450-Salmon_roundup_Feb_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2eaaa91450-92426209.

368. Cooke Litany Continues - WA finds deficiency at 2 more sites: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/19/state-finds-further-deficiencies-at-two-more-puget-sound-cooke-pens/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2eaaa91450-Salmon_roundup_Feb_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2eaaa91450-92426209.

367. Boom - another on--land farm from Aquabanq, this time in the US for steelhead, salmon, 10,000t: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/19/ras-veteran-backed-firm-plans-10000t-land-based-farm-in-us/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2eaaa91450-Salmon_roundup_Feb_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2eaaa91450-92426209.

366. Boom - Whole Oceans, 20,000t on-land fish farm, Maine: https://wholeoceans.com/.

365. Boom - Huon, Tasmania, new project at $67 million: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/22/huon-puts-67m-into-production-expansion/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=2eaaa91450-Salmon_roundup_Feb_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-2eaaa91450-92426209.

364. Disease/Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - BC, blood water has PRV and enterococci in it. The latter is a human pathogen. It may be being fed to fish farm fish as it accelerates growth. And it is resistant to tetracycline one of human's most common antibiotics: http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/. Look for a Feb 22, 2018 post. The bottom line: "Treatment of enterococcal infections can be difficult because Enterococcus species are intrinsically resistant to many antimicrobial agents and have the capacity to acquire resistance genes and mutations. Use of antibiotics in the BC salmon farming industry is second only to Chile with BC using an average of 1.75 antibiotic treatments per grow out cycle in 2014. Sixteen percent of enterococcus isolates from farmed salmon were found to be resistant to the antibiotic tetracycline. Release of antibiotic resistant strains of enterococcus would pose an additional threat to human health." The ARB issue is significant.

363. Maggot Feed First - Enterra Feed Corporation is first to get FDA approval for its maggot feed for salmon. Yum:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/20/aquaculture-america-2018/#10079.

362. Litigious Industry - Cooke threatens WA over phasing out licences: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1093168/Cooke%2DAquaculture%2DThreatens%2Dto%2DSeek%2DDamages%2Dfrom%2DWashington%2DState.

361. More Algal Bloom Losses - Chile, farmed salmon:  http://www.businessinsider.com/r-red-tide-outbreak-in-chile-puts-salmon-farms-on-alert-industry-group-2018-2?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=96a0e871df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-96a0e871df-166907249&mc_cid=96a0e871df&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

360. Feds Spend $19.1 Million Against Aboriginals - BC, right to fish court case, Clayoquot Sound:  https://ipolitics.ca/2018/02/15/feds-spent-19m-court-battle-first-nations-fishing-rights-documents/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=96a0e871df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-96a0e871df-166907249&mc_cid=96a0e871df&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

359. LeBlanc, Stop Salmon Killing - letter to Telegram, has good stats on east coast Atlantic salmon numbers:  http://www.thetelegram.com/opinion/letter-dfo-minister-must-halt-killing-of-wild-atlantic-salmon-187269/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=96a0e871df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-96a0e871df-166907249&mc_cid=96a0e871df&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

358. Blood Water Contains PRV - BC, the virus of HSMI, a salmon killer: https://globalnews.ca/news/4037277/a-threat-to-wild-salmon-government-confirms-virus-in-blood-discharge-pouring-into-b-c-waters/?utm_source=GlobalBC&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=96a0e871df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-96a0e871df-166907249&mc_cid=96a0e871df&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

357. Fisheries Act Changes Not Enough - BC, aboriginals:  https://www.albernivalleynews.com/news/fisheries-act-fix-doesnt-go-far-enough-says-nuu-chah-nulth-tribal-council/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=96a0e871df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-96a0e871df-166907249&mc_cid=96a0e871df&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

356. Dump Fish Farms, BC - WA state legislaters call on BC to phase out in-ocean fish farms, too:  https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/02/20/washington-lawmaker-wants-bc-to-follow-state-in-phasing-out-atlantic-salmon-farms.html?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=96a0e871df-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-96a0e871df-166907249&mc_cid=96a0e871df&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

355. Escapes - Not Our Fish - Ireland, claim that DNA says they are Norway escapes: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/22/aquaculture-group-rejects-report-on-escaped-salmon-in-irish-rivers/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=57cbaa6938-Europe_briefing_Feb_22_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-57cbaa6938-92426209.

354. Industry Against Environmental Activists - claim nefarious actions by activists, including Mercy for Animals: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/20/aquaculture-america-2018/#10071.  

353. Litigious Industry - Cooke, WA, to sue for $76million under NAFTA as a threatened foreign company that wouldn't have been charged if it were American: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/cooke-76m-court-threat-to-anti-foreigner-ban-bid/

352. Up To 1 Million Dead Salmon - Tasmania:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-16/petuna-aquaculture-sacks-22-people-macquarie-harbour-fish-farm/9454944.
MacQuarie Harbour 'dire environmental conditions', POMV disease.

351. Ban Fish Farms in BC - WA senator asks us to join their salmon ban: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/20/washington-state-senator-asks-british-columbia-to-join-salmon-ban/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=adef95258e-Americas_briefing_Feb_20_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-adef95258e-92426209.

350.  Lasers, AI In, Workers Out - fish farms want to cut costs and increase output: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1092828/Fish%2DFarmers%2DTurning%2Dto%2DLasers%2DArtificial%2DIntelligence%2Dto%2DCut%2DCosts%2Dand%2DBoost%2DProduction.

349. War Over 'Norwegian Invasion' - BC, aboriginals, Fin Donnelly:  http://salmonbusiness.com/indigenous-people-see-norwegian-invasion/.

348. Escape - Grieg, Isle of Skye, 22,600 fish:  http://salmonbusiness.com/grieg-counts-loss-of-22000-isle-of-skye-fish/.

347. Litigious Industry - Cooke to sue WA: http://salmonbusiness.com/cooke-warns-lawmakers-of-looming-nafta-battle/. Escapes: "Online outlet KUOW had smartly checked the record and found the DNR had registered the following non-Cooke mass escapee events: 107,000 lost in 1996 when an anchor line failed; 369,000 lost moving away from an algae bloom and 115,000 lost during a strong tidal"

346. Litigious Industry - Cooke will sue WA under NAFTA for eliminating its industry. What a way to get Trump to penalize the entire Canadian economy, just by one business that doesn't give a damn: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/20/cooke-will-seek-damages-under-nafta-if-washington-approves-salmon-ban/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=ad41ac7bfb-Europe_briefing_Feb_20_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-ad41ac7bfb-92426209.

345. Fish Farm Phase Out Bill - WA, watered down bill ends fish farms when their leases are up, but mistakenly calls for a report by next year: http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/politics/house-passes-version-of-net-pen-phase-out-legislation/.

344. Boom - salmon harvest up 17%, Chile, at same time as algal bloom kills 1%:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1435113/chilean-salmon-harvest-jumps-17-percent-in-2017?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d870aa6edc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-d870aa6edc-244877629.

343. Banning Fish Farms Won't Bring Wild Salmon Back - WA, so says Cooke exec, in wake of licence closures:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1436103/cooke-disappointed-at-anti-salmon-farming-legislation?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d870aa6edc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-d870aa6edc-244877629. Perhaps if you don't accept that farmed fish kill wild fish, that might follow, but no one other than a fish farm exec would make such a counterfactual claim.

342. Escapes but No Reports - Ireland, found 500 farmed salmon in many rivers, but no reports of escaped fish, just like Norway, and BC: https://thefishsite.com/articles/report-confirms-escaped-farmed-salmon-invasion.

341. Protest - Ireland, against a new R&D park: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/19/irish-council-calls-for-more-details-as-objection-holds-up-new-rd-park/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=d721515855-Americas_briefing_Feb_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-d721515855-92426209.

340. Escape - salmon, Grieg, Shetlands: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/19/grieg-shetland-confirms-salmon-escape-reports/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=d721515855-Americas_briefing_Feb_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-d721515855-92426209.

339. New On-land 10,000mt Farm - USA, Aquabanq:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/19/ras-veteran-backed-firm-plans-10000t-land-based-farm-in-us/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=d721515855-Americas_briefing_Feb_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-d721515855-92426209.

338. Potential Escape, WA - Cooke finds problems iwth nets at two more farms:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1092726/Cooke%2DFinds%2DProblems%2Dat%2DTwo%2DMore%2DPuget%2DSound%2DSites.

337. Cooke Complains - typical for fish farms. WA State. It says there is no science that says fish farms damage wild stocks, and lots of jobs will be lost. Well, there is 20,000 pages of science on this site, and there is a lot more out there. As for jobs, Cooke has 80 jobs, so it is peanuts in an area with 3.8 million people. And, if the farms are on land, all Cooke employees will be retained: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1092752/Cooke%2DExpresses%2DStrong%2DDisappointment%2Dwith%2DWashington%2DHouse%2Dand%2DSenate%2DVotes%2Dto%2DBan%2DNetpens.

336. On-Land Is The Future -  https://www.fishupdate.com/open-approach-closed-containment/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=dd8540c5ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-dd8540c5ef-166907249&mc_cid=dd8540c5ef&mc_eid=5777c92bcd. "THE focus of salmon farming has shifted from building markets to building new technologies and placating public opinion, an audience in Copenhagen was told this week. Trond Davidsen, president of the International Salmon Farmers Association (ISFA), said traditional farming in open cages faced challenges both above and below water, with the industry losing the struggle for its reputation in Norway." Or so Trond thinks. The public just grow more angry with in-ocean trashing the world's water. "The industry in Norway has grown from 98 tonnes in 1971 to 1.2 million tonnes in 2017. But since 2012 there has been little increase in production. The reasons for this include biological challenges, but also ‘a lack of public support, and opposition is growing’, said Davidsen." Really, I hadn't noticed. "‘To my knowledge, there are no examples of successful land based salmon farms yet. I am not arguing against it, just stating facts, but it will happen, maybe not tomorrow or 10 years or 15 years from now, but it will happen eventually.’" Trond you obviously haven't read my post of the 212 on-land fish farms i have found, comprising 20,000 actual on land farms around the world: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.

335. Killer Jellyfish - salmon, Norway, stingers cause lesions resulting in infections. Not so on land:  https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/jellyfish-threaten-norways-salmon-farming-industry/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=dd8540c5ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-dd8540c5ef-166907249&mc_cid=dd8540c5ef&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

334. Fewer Worker Jobs - Marel, Iceland, being automation processing closer to farm:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/15/marel-backs-new-products-to-change-salmon-processing/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=fd2c2af443-Europe_briefing_Feb_15_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-fd2c2af443-92426209.

333. Processor Sued - EPA, Trident, waste water violations, Alaska:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/15/us-epa-sues-trident-for-alaska-fish-processing-waste-discharge/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=037812b8d9-Europe_briefing_Feb_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-037812b8d9-92426209.

332. Algal Bloom Deaths - Chile, up to 1% of salmon biomass now:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1433472/chiles-algal-bloom-kills-nearly-1-percent-of-salmon-biomass?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b5b6e328ad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-b5b6e328ad-244877629.

331. Higher Feed Costs - material costs higher, you know, those 19 forage fish stocks that have been trashed for feed: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1433120/feed-giants-warn-salmon-sector-to-brace-for-higher-prices?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=b5b6e328ad-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-b5b6e328ad-244877629.

330. Licence Hit - Marine Harvest, Chile, $110M: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/14/marine-harvest-takes-110m-hit-on-chile-license-value-write-down/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=011a1857cf-Salmon_roundup_Feb_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-011a1857cf-92426209.

329. More Stringent Waste Water Regs - USA, processor waste water, Oregon: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1092605/Oregon%2DReadies%2DNew%2DWaste%2DWater%2DRequirements%2Dfor%2DSeafood%2DProcessors.

328. Human Trafficking Convictions - Thailand: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/16/thailand-convicts-several-fishermen-for-human-trafficking/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=042a0e7515-Americas_briefing_Feb_16_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-042a0e7515-92426209.

327. Falsifying Documents - Grieg Seafood subsidiary, Ocean Quality, staff suspended, sent to jail in 2014, Norway: https://ilaks.no/avviser-leiaransvar-for-eksporttabbe/.


326. Escape, Escape - one week after 56,000 fish escaped, Marine Harvest loses another 138,000 in Norway: https://ilaks.no/mistanke-stor-romming/.

325. Disease - Cooke PRV, WA, 100% of fish infected wtih virus:  http://wildfishconservancy.org/february-15th-prv-press-release/at_download/file.

324. Communications Spin - same old, same old, - Norway Royal Salmon: https://norwayroyalsalmon.com/en/Sustainability

323. Boom - Cargill technology centre in India first of four in Asia: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/15/cargills-aquaculture-center-is-its-first-in-four-asian-nations/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=943f5c343a-Americas_briefing_Feb_15_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-943f5c343a-92426209.

322.  Sewage - Tassal, Tasmania, salmon sewage trucked to disposal plant: http://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/5230586/treated-fish-waste-trucked-away-to-east-devonport/?cs=87. No comment on where the centrifuged fish sewage was taken, though. And saying it was okay because the outfall is very long. They need to get a life.

321. Bust - workers fired, 22 execs fired, some with 20 years on staff, Petuna, Tasmania: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/15/aussie-salmon-farmer-petuna-lets-go-of-22-execs-in-wake-of-pomv-losses/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=943f5c343a-Americas_briefing_Feb_15_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-943f5c343a-92426209.

320. Boom - Santa Monica acquisition aggressive, $150M expansion: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/15/mulling-more-deals-santa-monica-targets-150m-in-additional-annual-sales/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=943f5c343a-Americas_briefing_Feb_15_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-943f5c343a-92426209.

319. Increased Scrutiny - Tasmanian fish farms, by government:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/14/tasmania-salmon-farms-could-face-more-scrutiny-under-opposition-govt/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=0081be46e3-Americas_briefing_Feb_14_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-0081be46e3-92426209.

318. Boom - Deutsche sees P&P acquistion to make it one of 15 largest firms in world, '$1.5B club': https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/14/deutsche-see-deal-takes-pp-into-the-1-5bn-club/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=0081be46e3-Americas_briefing_Feb_14_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-0081be46e3-92426209.

317. Boom - Grieg will 'aggressively expand' Skuna Bay skin pack:  http://www.intrafish.com/marketplace/1429809/grieg-to-aggressively-expand-skuna-bay-skinpack-line?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=06c6337c2d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-06c6337c2d-245113141.

316. Disease - ISA, Norway Royal Salmon: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/disease-dents-norway-royal-salmon-profits/.

315. On-land for Sale - Niri:  https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/aircraft-hangar-salmon-farm-put-up-for-sale/. "15,000 tonne-per-year plant, Niri Scotland’s contention that it is a technology business and not a production company differs from the stated intent of its Norwegian parent to “become a leading producer of high-quality seafood on land at competitive cost”. In the summer of 2017 Niri AS announced plans for a 15,000 tonne/year Niri RAS facility in Andenes, Norway. In November, Gravdal said he was certain Niri would re-start land-based farming in Scotland, but the details hadn’t yet been worked out."

314. Boom - Cargill ready for 'aggressive growth' in India, feed plant for giant:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1429918/cargill-ready-for-aggressive-growth-in-indian-aquaculture?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=726d730a5d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-726d730a5d-244877629.

313.  Escape - Scotland, 5400 trout, Dawnfresh: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/dawnfresh-loses-5400-trout-through-hole-in-new-net/.

312. Record Profits, But Cuts for 2018 - Marine Harvest: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/marine-harvest-makes-e792m-reveals-e50m-cuts/."Marine Harvest makes €792m, reveals €50m cuts." BC Canada had the lowest profit: "while Marine Harvest Canada achieved operating operating earnings per kg of €0.98 (€3.33)."

311. Algal Losses Double - Chile, now 3200mt of salmon have been lost: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/chile-hab-fish-death-toll-rises-to-3250-tonnes/.

310. Sales Banned - China, from Grieg Seafood/Bremnes Seashore project, Ocean Quality, from Norway, apparently they lied about having ISA: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/13/norway-salmon-sales-jv-barred-from-china-exports/.

309. Escape! Escape! - Scotland, Grieg loses 50,000 fish through a hole in their net: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2222477/salmon-escape-grieg-seafood-skye/.

308. Oil Spill Threatens Fisheries - China to Japan:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1092105/A%2DNearly%2DInvisible%2DOil%2DSpill%2DThreatens%2DSome%2Dof%2DAsias%2DRichest%2DFisheries.

307. Boom - Argentine seafood exports exceeds $2Billion:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1092115/Chinese%2DMarket%2DHelps%2DArgentine%2DSeafood%2DExports%2DExceed%2DUS%2D2%2Dbillion%2Din%2D2017

306. Bust - Chile, Invermar, $8.25Milion, 1600mt of salmon lost to algal bloom: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/12/chiles-invermar-sees-8-25m-loss-from-recent-algal-bloom/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=322a43ff4e-Americas_briefing_Feb_13_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-322a43ff4e-92426209.

305. Bust - Cooke, in WA, complains that government lacks scientific expertise to know when fish farms need shutting down. This is the same old, same old, the calling for science, which never ends: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cooke-aquaculture-atlantic-salmon-escapes-investigation-washington-state-1.4528775. Hasta la vista Cooke. Oh and it says it has 180 jobs, as though that makes a difference in an area with 3.8 million people. Cooke needs to update its spin.

303. Boom - King Salmon, NZ, to double production to 24,000mt:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/12/nz-king-salmon-boss-eyes-doubled-volumes-feels-battle-for-perception-being-won/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=4f67ce89df-Europe_briefing_Feb_12_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-4f67ce89df-92426209.

302.  Boom - Massive Expansion - Russia, 34 vessels, 34 plants: http://www.intrafish.com/fisheries/1425046/russia-plans-massive-expansion-34-new-vessels-34-new-seafood-plants?utm_source=IntraFish+Editor%27s+Picks+newsletter&utm_campaign=5facfd6845-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4a44318b44-5facfd6845-244948953.

301. Refusal to Publish Salmon Disease Info - Ireland could be investigated: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1430637/ireland-could-be-investigated-over-refusal-to-release-info-on-salmon-disease-outbreaks?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=85bfac898d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-85bfac898d-244877629.

300. Feb 12/18 On Land Can't be Stopped - also see 292: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1430202/land-based-salmon-farming-cant-be-stopped?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=85bfac898d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-85bfac898d-244877629.

299. Litigious Industry - WA, Cooke to fight being thrown out of the water:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091957/Cooke%2DFuriously%2DLobbied%2DAgainst%2DNet%2DPen%2DBan%2DVows%2Dto%2DContinue%2DFight%2Din%2DWashington%2DState.

298. Codfather Sent to Jail - Rafael, USA:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091958/NY%2DTimes%2DNew%2DBedford%2DStaggers%2Das%2DCodfather%2DGoes%2Dto%2DJail.

297. More Blood Water Processing - now, BC investigation 28 plants for PRV: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/12/bloody-effluent-video-leads-british-columbia-to-inspect-28-salmon-plants/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=70b2eae4f0-Americas_briefing_Feb_12_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-70b2eae4f0-92426209.

296. Fish Farms Against Aboriginals - BC, 2010 Olympics, Feb 9, 2018 post: http://donstaniford.typepad.com/my-blog/.

295. Public Meetings Needed Across NL - NL, Placentia Bay, Grieg:  http://asf.ca/paul-smith-climate-in-turmoil.html.

294. NL Govt Lax About Lumpfish - NL, environmental assessment:  http://asf.ca/lackadaisical-attitude-will-not-protect-the-environment.html.

293. Environmental Violations - Chile, salmon hatchery charged:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1427057/chilean-salmon-hatchery-charged-with-environmental-violations?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e01898b821-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-e01898b821-244877629.

292. Land Based 'Can't be Stopped' - International Salmon Farmers Association. Even they see the light: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1430202/land-based-salmon-farming-cant-be-stopped?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e01898b821-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-e01898b821-244877629.

291. Natonal Geographic Lauds Insect Feed - IFFO takes exception to article on salmon feed:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091776/IFFO%2DTakes%2DIssue%2Dwith%2DNational%2DGeographic%2DArticle%2DLauding%2DInsects%2Das%2DFish%2DFood.

290. WA Kills Fish Farms - WA, Governor endorses bill: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091811/Washington%2DState%2DSenate%2DPasses%2DBill%2Dto%2DPhase%2Dout%2DSalmon%2DFarming%2Dby%2DWide%2DMargin.

289. WA Kills Fish Farms - Jay Inslee will sign legislation:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/09/washington-state-hints-at-further-action-against-cooke-after-another-salmon-farm-lease-cancelled/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=c1466509e4-Americas_briefing_Feb_09_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-c1466509e4-92426209.

288. Capelin to Fish not Humans - Norway, catches herring, capelin : https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/09/norwegian-herring-landings-pick-up-while-capelin-goes-to-fishmeal-oil/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=c1466509e4-Americas_briefing_Feb_09_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-c1466509e4-92426209.

287. Farmed Fish 3X More Likely to be Deaf - than wild fish, rapid growth is the reason:  https://inhabitat.com/the-disturbing-reason-so-many-farmed-salmon-are-partially-deaf/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=ca96b05c9f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-ca96b05c9f-166907249&mc_cid=ca96b05c9f&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

286. Five Counties Warned WA Government About Fish Farms in 2012:  https://www.heraldnet.com/news/5-counties-warned-state-about-salmon-farming-back-in-2012/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=ca96b05c9f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-ca96b05c9f-166907249&mc_cid=ca96b05c9f&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

285. First Nations Against Fish Farms - BC:  http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/First_Nations_face_off_open-pen_fish_farms_british_columbia/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=ca96b05c9f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-ca96b05c9f-166907249&mc_cid=ca96b05c9f&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

284. Blood Water Contains PRV - BC, Browns Bay and Lions Gate Fisheries plant in Tofino, and  it would have been unlikely that it would not, considering that 80% of farmed fish have PRV. PRV has been found in wild cutthroat, steelhead, coho , chum, chinook and sockeye: https://www.desmog.ca/2018/02/05/bloodwater-released-b-c-s-coastal-water-contains-deadly-fish-virus-government-tests-confirm?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=ca96b05c9f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-ca96b05c9f-166907249&mc_cid=ca96b05c9f&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

283. 20 Farms Have Algal Deaths - Chile, bloom getting worse: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/chile-20-farms-report-salmon-deaths-from-algae/. "Blumar has lost by far the most with 332 tonnes of fish, Aquachile has lost 36.3 tonnes, Australis 35 tonnes, and Los Fiordos has reported a mortality rate of 30 tonnes. Cermaq’s loss has not yet been published by the government’s fisheries and aquaculture agency, Sernapesca."

282. Big Fish Escape - Marine Harvest, 56,000, Norway:  https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/marine-harvest-loses-56000-fish-in-norway-escape/.

281. More Severe Algal Blooms - Chile, due to climate change:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/08/study-climate-change-threatens-more-severe-algal-blooms-in-chile/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=cdcf237d5c-Europe_briefing_Feb_08_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-cdcf237d5c-92426209.

280. 'Oceans of Crime' Slams Seafood Industry - CNBC, Feb 17:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091630/CNBC%2Dto%2DBroadcast%2DOceans%2Dof%2DCrime%2DProgram%2DSlamming%2Dthe%2DSeafood%2DIndustry%2Don%2DFebruary%2D17th.

279. Illegal Tuna Farm - Malta:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/08/maltese-gov-removes-illegal-tuna-farms/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f3b1f95a4c-Americas_briefing_Feb_08_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f3b1f95a4c-92426209.

278. Salmon Farm Scrutiny - Scotland: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/08/scottish-parliament-announces-salmon-farming-inquiry/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f3b1f95a4c-Americas_briefing_Feb_08_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f3b1f95a4c-92426209.

277. Record Mortalities Result in Scale Back Call - GAIAA, Scotland, 10 million in 2016: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091504/Groups%2DCall%2Don%2DScottish%2DSalmon%2DFarms%2Dto%2DScale%2DBack%2Dafter%2DRecord%2DMortalities.

276. DFO Likes Fish Farms? - CDN, LeBlanc's science council that won't do anything but leave them in the water:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091536/Aquaculture%2Dnot%2Din%2DNew%2DCanadian%2DFisheries%2DPlan%2DBut%2DLeBlanc%2DCalls%2Dfor%2DScientific%2DTransparancy.

275. Bad Legislation? - LeBlanc, CDN, where are the HADD provisions:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091532/Canada%2DUnveils%2DUpdates%2Dto%2DFisheries%2DAct%2Dto%2DCautious%2DPraise%2Dfrom%2DIndustry%2DEnvironmentalists.

274. Boom - USA India-sourced shrimp imports up 40%: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/07/india-leads-big-year-in-us-shrimp-imports-sees-39-surge/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=a1530fdca3-Americas_briefing_Feb_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-a1530fdca3-92426209.

273. Processor Fire - USA, National Fish: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/06/fire-extinguisher-saves-national-fish-plant-from-disaster/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=abb57b5510-Europe_briefing_Feb_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-abb57b5510-92426209.

272. Illegal Fishing - Argentina, Spanish ship:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/06/argentina-detains-spanish-vessel-it-says-was-fishing-illegally/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=abb57b5510-Europe_briefing_Feb_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-abb57b5510-92426209.

271. RAS Seminar for On-land - Iceland, to save wild stocks:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/07/us-non-profit-organizes-ras-salmon-aquaculture-seminar-in-iceland/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=abb57b5510-Europe_briefing_Feb_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-abb57b5510-92426209.

270.  Shrimp Farming Damages Fertile Land - India, Andhra Pradesh: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/07/shrimp-farming-said-to-ruining-fertile-land-in-indias-andhra-pradesh/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=abb57b5510-Europe_briefing_Feb_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-abb57b5510-92426209.

269.  Mis-Labeling Law Suit Settlement - Bumble Bee, falsely labeled smoked salmon as wild: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/06/bumble-bee-reaches-settlement-in-smoked-salmon-lawsuit/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=abb57b5510-Europe_briefing_Feb_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-abb57b5510-92426209.

268. Share Prices Drop - Chile salmon firms, on news of new algal bloom:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/07/chilean-salmon-farmers-share-prices-fall-as-algae-bloom-expands-in-chiloe/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=abb57b5510-Europe_briefing_Feb_07_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-abb57b5510-92426209.

267. Environmental Violations - Chilean salmon hatchery:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1427057/chilean-salmon-hatchery-charged-with-environmental-violations?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=29eccceb71-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-29eccceb71-245113141.

266. Big Escape - Marine Harvest, Norway:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1428716/marine-harvest-reports-large-escape-in-norway?%20Salmon%20Newsletter&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-29eccceb71-245113141.

265. Monterey Bay Loses Marbles - rating corp gives in ocean farm a green rating: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1427406/first-ever-conventional-net-pen-atlantic-salmon-farm-awarded-monterey-bay-green-rating?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=29eccceb71-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-29eccceb71-245113141.

264. Four Bills Against Fish Farms - Cooke, WA:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/05/four-competing-bills-put-cookes-washington-farms-under-more-scrutiny/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=4b49bdf889-Europe_briefing_Feb_06_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-4b49bdf889-92426209.

263. MSCs Still Not Good Enough - ENGOs charge MSCs failing to protect endangered species:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/06/ngo-group-unsatisfied-by-mscs-approach-to-reforms/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=4b49bdf889-Europe_briefing_Feb_06_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-4b49bdf889-92426209

262. More Pescanova Fraud - chairman Fernandez and 30 other parties charged with fraud:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/05/ex-pescanova-chairman-fernandez-former-execs-to-face-fraud-charges-at-trial/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=4b49bdf889-Europe_briefing_Feb_06_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-4b49bdf889-92426209.

261. More Pescanova Trainwreck - ex-exec mired in fraud allegations:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/06/ex-pescanova-top-exec-mired-in-fraud-allegations-running-giant-saudi-shrimp-farm/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=4b49bdf889-Europe_briefing_Feb_06_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-4b49bdf889-92426209.

260. Non-Fish Fish Feed - the industry, after killing all the fish in the sea, according to The Sea Around Us, that shows that 19 of 20 global forage fish stocks are collapsing or poorly managed or both, are tooting their own torn, rather than saying after we killed all the fish, we needed a different source of fish feed. Spin: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/report/feed-innovation/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=4b49bdf889-Europe_briefing_Feb_06_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-4b49bdf889-92426209.

259. Bust - Marine Harvest Scotland had 2.3 million fish deaths in 2017: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/05/marine-harvest-scotland-sees-salmon-mortalities-of-2-3m-in-2017/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9012800afb-Americas_briefing_Feb_05_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9012800afb-92426209. " These figures, released to the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture (GAAIA) following a Freedom of Information request, showed cardiomyopathy syndrome, gill disease (including amoebic gill disease and proliferative gill disease), treatment losses (including deaths due to the Thermolicer and toxic chemicals) and anemia were some of the biggest issues."

258. More Cooke Trainwreck - WA:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/05/four-competing-bills-put-cookes-washington-farms-under-more-scrutiny/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9012800afb-Americas_briefing_Feb_05_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9012800afb-92426209. "Cooke “flagrantly violated the terms of its lease at Cypress Island by failing to maintain their net pens in safe conditions, allowing hundreds of thousands of Atlantic salmon to pollute Washington's waters”, wrote Franz, in a Facebook post. “The company’s reckless disregard endangered the health of our waters and our people, and it will not be tolerated. On behalf of all Washingtonians, and in fulfillment of my duty to protect our state’s waters, I am terminating the lease,” she added."

257. On-Land On Track - Atlantic Sapphire, Florida, USA: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/05/atlantic-sapphires-land-based-salmon-plant-on-track-for-2020/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9012800afb-Americas_briefing_Feb_05_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9012800afb-92426209.

256. New Science Committee - fish farms think it's great, but no one else does: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091164/Canadas%2DSeafood%2DFarmers%2DWelcome%2DNew%2DFederal%2DScience%2DReview. See also my response:  https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2018/02/new-science-copmmittee-dont-bother.html.

255.  WA Pulls Cooke Cypress Island Lease: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1091167/Washington%2DState%2DCancels%2DCooke%2DAquaculture%2DPacific%2DLease%2Dfor%2DSite%2Dof%2DNet%2DCollapse.

254. WA Pulls More Cooke Leases - : https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/violations-prompt-washington-state-to-cancel-atlantic-salmon-farm-lease-at-port-angeles/.

"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. "

253. Mercury in US Seafood - : https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/02/researchers-track-sources-of-mercury-in-us-seafood/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=83493f8710-Americas_briefing_Feb_02_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-83493f8710-92426209.

252. Antibiotic Resistance Becoming Major Issue - : https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/02/antibiotic-resistance-risk-is-growing-issue-for-aquaculture/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=83493f8710-Americas_briefing_Feb_02_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-83493f8710-92426209.

251. Escape - Call For Investigation - Huon, NSW, 20,000 kingfish: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/02/calls-for-review-of-huon-farm-after-20000-kingfish-escape/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=274618ad94-Europe_briefing_Feb_02_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-274618ad94-92426209.

250. Huge Fine. $332,000 - Cooke, WA: http://www.timescolonist.com/business/washington-state-fish-farm-fined-322-000-for-major-escape-of-atlantic-salmon-1.23159444. Of 305,000 fish, 243,000 to 263,000 fish escape, much larger than Cooke estimate of 160,000. Only 57,000 of the escaped fish have been caught.

249. Algae Losses Begin - Chile, salmon, five companies report mortalities, Blumar, Aquachile, Australis, Los Fiordos and Cermaq:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090865/Five%2DSalmon%2DCompanies%2DReport%2DSome%2DAlgae%2DLosses%2Din%2DChile%2Das%2DSernapesca%2DMonitors%2DNew%2DOutbreak.

248. New Algal Bloom! - Chile, could be the beginning of another disaster, like last year and the 25,000,000 salmon killed by algal bloom caused in part by their own sewage: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/01/chilean-researchers-fear-repeat-of-algal-booms/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=d675c880e4-Americas_briefing_Feb_01_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-d675c880e4-92426209.

247. 'Demise of Salmon Farming?' -WA, report on Cooke negligence: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090731/Report%2DCalls%2DCooke%2DNegligent%2Din%2DNet%2DPen%2DFailure%2DMay%2DHasten%2DDemise%2Dof%2DSalmon%2DFarming%2Din%2DPuget%2DSound.

246. New Disease - in lumpfish used to clean fish farm fish:  https://thefishsite.com/articles/new-pathogen-discovered-in-lumpfish?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=77aed46bb0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-77aed46bb0-166907249&mc_cid=77aed46bb0&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

245. Blood Water Leaks - Scotland:  http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-42808511?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=77aed46bb0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-77aed46bb0-166907249&mc_cid=77aed46bb0&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

244. DFO Committee Problems - BC, Stan P, Watershed Watch:  https://www.spreaker.com/user/5725616/e175-watershed-watch-on-penned-and-wild-?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=77aed46bb0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-77aed46bb0-166907249&mc_cid=77aed46bb0&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

243. On-land Fish Farm - Maine, Nordic Aquafarms, 33,000mt:  https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/30/norwegian-company-to-build-large-land-based-salmon-farm-in-belfast/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=77aed46bb0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-77aed46bb0-166907249&mc_cid=77aed46bb0&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

242. Fish Farms Out - First Nations want Broughton Archipelago farms out of the water:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stand-with-us-b-c-first-nations-meet-cabinet-ministers-in-bid-to-move-fish-farms-out-1.4510961?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=77aed46bb0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_ter
m=0_405944b1b5-77aed46bb0-166907249&mc_cid=77aed46bb0&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

241. 'Massive Losses' - Zoneco:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/01/zoneco-reports-massive-losses-suspends-shares/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9c1c0b7b0a-Europe_briefing_Feb_01_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9c1c0b7b0a-92426209.

240. Bust - Peru anchovy catch for fish meal way down, 46.1%:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/01/produce-46-of-peruvian-anchovy-quota-caught/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9c1c0b7b0a-Europe_briefing_Feb_01_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9c1c0b7b0a-92426209.

239. Tax Evasion Investigation - Iceland, Saemark:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/31/bacco-owners-confirm-buyout-of-saemark-boss-from-their-sales-firm/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9c1c0b7b0a-Europe_briefing_Feb_01_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9c1c0b7b0a-92426209.

238. Boom - Salmones Camanchaca, Chile, to double salmon output by 2021: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/02/01/salmones-camanchaca-aims-to-double-production-invests-to-boost-profitability/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=9c1c0b7b0a-Europe_briefing_Feb_01_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-9c1c0b7b0a-92426209.

237. Net Failure Report - Cooke, WA, Cypress Island, 120 page report, PRV in all fish: https://www.dnr.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/aqr_cypress_investigation_report.pdf?vdqi7rk&dwf0wj.

236. Sewage Release - Cooke, Scotland: http://www.intrafish.com/processor/1420722/cooke-accused-of-leaking-untreated-sewage-scottish-sea?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e4c500699a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-e4c500699a-245113141.

235. Disease - ISA, Leroy:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1422913/leroy-salmon-farming-sites-hit-with-isa?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e4c500699a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-e4c500699a-245113141.

234. Huge Fine - $332,000 - Cooke Aqua, WA:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1423066/cooke-calls-out-inaccurate-and-misleading-report-on-collapsed-net-pen?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e4c500699a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-e4c500699a-245113141.

233.  Peru Crash of Forage Fish Harvest - driving industry to look at non-fish feed, after they killed all the fish in the sea:  https://files.undercurrentnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/UCN-Feed-innovation-report-Sample.pdf?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=ac730d8b93-FEED_REPORT_2018_OUT_NOW&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_483b84eead-ac730d8b93-92334001.

232. Big Fine for Negligence - $332,000, WA. Cooke Aqua, farm break up:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/30/cooke-calls-washingtons-report-on-escape-full-of-factual-inaccuracies-2/. In this one Cooke claims its jobs are: "Cooke Aquaculture Pacific employs 80 people in Washington, supports another 100 indirect jobs, and maintains an annual payroll of approximately $8.5 million, it said."

231. LITIGIOUS Industry Shoots Bullets - WA, Cooke Aqua, state story full of 'factual inaccuracies': https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/30/cooke-calls-washingtons-report-on-escape-full-of-factual-inaccuracies/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=f0de5556e0-Americas_briefing_Jan_30_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-f0de5556e0-92426209.

230. Software Will Replace Workers? - :  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090574/This%2DStartup%2DIs%2DRaising%2D3%2Dpoint%2D5%2DMillion%2DTo%2DAdd%2DMachine%2DLearning%2DTo%2DFish%2DFarms.

229. Tax Fraud - Saemark, Iceland:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090555/Saemarks%2DOwner%2DBjornsson%2DCaught%2Din%2DTax%2DFraud%2Dby%2DIceland%2DAuthorities%2DRaids%2Don%2Dboth%2DHome%2Dand%2DOffice.

228. Cheating - scallop boat, New Bedfore, Rafael related, USA: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090563/Another%2DNew%2DBedford%2DScallop%2DBoat%2DAffiliated%2Dwith%2DCarlos%2DRafael%2DCaught%2DCheating%2Don%2DScallop%2DLandings.

227. Multi-Billion Dollar Scandal - Mozambique, Ematum:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/30/mozambique-launches-tribunal-into-multi-billion-dollar-ematum-scandal/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=b1c9419643-Europe_briefing_Jan_30_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-b1c9419643-92426209.

226. Salmon Smokers in Trouble - post Brexit, Scotland: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/30/why-brexit-could-be-a-nightmare-for-uks-salmon-smokers/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=b1c9419643-Europe_briefing_Jan_30_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-b1c9419643-92426209.

225. Boom - Norway salmon sales to China: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/26/norways-china-salmon-sales-rising/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=00fd90a935-Europe_briefing_Jan_29_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-00fd90a935-92426209.

224. Bust - Cooke's mussel bound nets, government focus in WA collapse:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1421485/investigators-focus-in-on-cookes-mussel-laden-nets-in-salmon-escape-case?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=cea54cbeea-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-cea54cbeea-244877629.

223. Boom - fishmeal contracts, Peru: http://www.intrafish.com/fisheries/1418073/peruvian-producers-race-to-fulfill-pre-signed-fishmeal-contracts?utm_source=IntraFish+Editor%27s+Picks+newsletter&utm_campaign=5169dc1306-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4a44318b44-5169dc1306-244948953.

222. Diseased Fish Transported Against Regulations - Scotland:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/29/concerns-over-scotlands-inability-to-enforce-salmon-road-haulage-rules/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=830e52f4b6-Americas_briefing_Jan_29_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-830e52f4b6-92426209.

221. Workers Fired - Marine Harvest, UK, 34 workers fired: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/29/marine-harvest-confirms-uk-job-losses/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=830e52f4b6-Americas_briefing_Jan_29_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-830e52f4b6-92426209.

220. Fraud - BC, widespread fraud in labeling, UBC: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/29/canadian-university-finds-fish-fraud-in-vancouver/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=830e52f4b6-Americas_briefing_Jan_29_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-830e52f4b6-92426209.

219. Shrimp Market in 'Chaos' - China: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/29/china-shrimp-market-in-chaos-ecuador-has-options-if-demand-drops/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=830e52f4b6-Americas_briefing_Jan_29_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-830e52f4b6-92426209.

218. Antibiotics in Indian Shrimp - EU : https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/29/eu-official-says-india-shrimp-farm-compliance-on-antibiotics-is-insufficient-as-trade-challenges-dominate-goa-show/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=830e52f4b6-Americas_briefing_Jan_29_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-830e52f4b6-92426209.

217. On Land, Unprecedented Growth - Yellowtail, South Africa: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1414879/south-african-land-based-yellowtail-farm-sees-unprecedented-growth-rates?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=e4a8f9ca4b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-e4a8f9ca4b-244877629.

216. Aboriginals, MLAs Against Fish Farms - Adam Olsen, MLA: http://adamolsen.bcgreencaucus.ca/fish-farm-frustration/.

215 Off Shore Fish Farm - Sewage, Deepwater Aquaculture - striped bass, 8 miles off NY shore:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090242/Can%2DDeepwater%2DAquaculture%2DAvoid%2Dthe%2DPitfalls%2Dof%2DCoastal%2DFish%2DFarms.

214. Blood Water Leak, Cooke - Scotland: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/26/cooke-scotland-plant-found-to-have-leaked-blood-water/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=359f0d9dfa-Americas_briefing_Jan_26_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-359f0d9dfa-92426209.

213. We Didn't Kill Seabirds - NZ hoki fishery:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/26/nz-fishing-industry-rejects-claims-it-has-harmed-seabird-populations/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=359f0d9dfa-Americas_briefing_Jan_26_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-359f0d9dfa-92426209.

212. More Seals to be Shot? - Scotland, new ways needed to avoid killing sentient animals:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/26/fish-farm-increase-could-lead-to-more-seals-being-shot-in-scotland/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=359f0d9dfa-Americas_briefing_Jan_26_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-359f0d9dfa-92426209.

211. Boom - Marine Harvest to exponentially increase processing in its Miami plant, ahead of Atlantic Sapphire opening, I'll bet. And augers well for a move to land by Marine Harvest in the USA: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/26/marine-harvest-to-double-miami-production-with-new-plant/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=359f0d9dfa-Americas_briefing_Jan_26_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-359f0d9dfa-92426209.


210. Diseases in Farmed/Wild Salmon - BC, Kristi Miller: https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/rapid-scan-for-salmon-sickness/.

209. Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmon - Scotland: https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/other-sports/ireland-scotland-and-norway-cited-over-sea-lice-in-intensely-farmed-salmon-1.3360217?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=7b0db893db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7b0db893db-166907249&mc_cid=7b0db893db&mc_eid=5777c92bcd. " Paul Knight of S&TC (UK) and co-chair of ngo’s at the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (Nasco), said: “At Nasco’s annual meetings, Scotland has been repeatedly challenged for its systematic denial of any significant negative impacts caused by salmon farming in the west Highlands on wild salmon and sea trout. This report vindicates the ngo stance that sea lice emanating from salmon farms are harmful to populations of wild fish, often devastatingly so.”"

208. Tasmanians Against Fish Farms - Tassal, King Island foodies, govt thinks protest sets an 'extremely dangerous precedent'. Note the govt is against its own people:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-18/king-island-businesses-in-salmon-boycott-over-fish-farms/9340058?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=7b0db893db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7b0db893db-166907249&mc_cid=7b0db893db&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

207. Cypress Island Nets Clogged - WA, Cooke, nets fouled with mussel etc.:  http://kuow.org/post/new-suspects-atlantic-salmon-farm-collapse-fouling-sea-creatures?utm_source=Watershed%20Watch%20Email%20List&utm_campaign=7b0db893db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7b0db893db-166907249&mc_cid=7b0db893db&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

206. More DFO IHN Controversy - WA:  https://www.thecordovatimes.com/2018/01/19/study-virus-risk-ocean-salmon-questioned/?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=7b0db893db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7b0db893db-166907249&mc_cid=7b0db893db&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

205. Destruction of Fish Habitat - Rio Tinto, BC:  https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/articles/5747/environmental-liability-regulatory-offences-and-prohibitions-water-environmental-offence-destruction-of-fish-habitat-penalties-remedial-orders-and-sentencing-principles?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=7b0db893db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7b0db893db-166907249&mc_cid=7b0db893db&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

204. How Long Cooke Escapes Affect WA? - WA tribes expect damage from escaped Atlantics for years:  http://www.hcn.org/issues/50.1/tribal-affairs-when-atlantic-salmon-escape-in-the-Pacific-who-cleans-up?utm_source=Watershed+Watch+Email+List&utm_campaign=7b0db893db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7b0db893db-166907249&mc_cid=7b0db893db&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

203. Fish Farm Video Criticism - https://vimeopro.com/maystreet/foodforthought/video/250363204?utm_source=watershed+watch+email+list&utm_campaign=7b0db893db-email_campaign_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_405944b1b5-7b0db893db-166907249&mc_cid=7b0db893db&mc_eid=5777c92bcd.

202. Even WWF Criticizes MSCs - even while the two certification schemes are interdependent: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/25/wwf-expects-strong-more-immediate-commitments-to-reform-from-msc/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=90dd94c3e9-Europe_briefing_Jan_25_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-90dd94c3e9-92426209.

201. Even More MSC Criticism - 66 environmental orgs attach MSC deficiencies, endangered species/labour issues: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/25/msc-to-address-concerns-over-lack-of-care-for-endangered-species-labor-issues/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=90dd94c3e9-Europe_briefing_Jan_25_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-90dd94c3e9-92426209.

200. Jan 25, 2017 - Boom - Vietnam to take shrimp exports from $3.6 B to $10 B by 2025:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/25/quoc-viet-govt-to-help-shrimp-packers-farmers-reach-10bn-in-exports/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=7a9ae3baed-Americas_briefing_Jan_25_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-7a9ae3baed-92426209.

199. 56 Million Farmed Fish Die/Lawyers for Development Licences - 2016, Norway, 20% and the belief that nothing has changed, so still losing such high numbers of salmon.:  https://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/i/vmOzp4/56-millioner-laks-dode-i-oppdrettsmerdene-i-2016. And these are the escape figures: "It is the breeder himself who is going to report escapes. Last year, 9964 escaped salmon were registered. The figure for 2016 was 127,876 escaped salmon." One plant lost 50,000 halibut in 2017. And more: "The Directorate of Fisheries was well acquainted with the lawyer's use. In these cases, complaints are not the exception, but the rule. Development licenses have become a growth industry for the law industry, commented Øyvind Lie, Director of the Directorate of Fisheries. He pointed out that big economic values ​​are in play, and many breeders are impatient after just getting their application processed."

198. Sea Lice Treatments Killing Shellfish - Norway: https://www.fiskarlaget.no/index.php/details/104/2469-lusemidler-odelegger.

197. Workers Fired by Marine Harvest - Scotland, 34 staff: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-42809999?SThisFB.

196. IHN Disease in WA - review article : http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1577/1548-8640%281972%2934%5B143%3ASFIHNI%5D2.0.CO%3B2?needAccess=true&journalCode=uzpf20.

195. Eviction Notice, Marine Harvest - BC, aboriginals give eviction notice to new fish farms:  https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/first-nations-leaders-hand-eviction-notice-to-b-c-fish-farm-1.3771220

194. NL Govt Practically Paying to Destroy the Ocean - Marine Harvest, Grieg, licence costs are a small fraction of their own country, Norway: http://www.thetelegram.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor/letter-viking-invasion--the-sad-second-saga-176323/.

193. PRV/HSMI Geneticist Miller to Test East Coast Salmon - http://asf.ca/search-for-salmon-disease-goes-high-tech.html.

192. Execs Jump Ship - BC, Jeremy Dunn to Marine Harvest, Ian Roberts to Scotland: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090051/BC%2DSalmon%2DFarmers%2DAssociation%2DExecutive%2DDirector%2DJoins%2DMarine%2DHarvest.

191. 80% of Larval Fish Die - Oregon doing food research to save farmed clams, oysters, fish:  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090059/Oregon%2DState%2DUniversity%2DAquaculture%2DResearchers%2DHave%2DPlan%2Dto%2DBoost%2DAquaculture%2DProductivity.

190. MSCs Criticized by Environmental Groups - over tuna fishing certification: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090048/MSC%2DCriticized%2Dby%2DConservation%2DGroups%2DChallenging%2DCertification%2Dof%2DSome%2DLobster%2Dand%2DTrap%2DFisheries.

189. Employee in Scam Pleads Guilty - lobster, 50,000 pounds to China: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1090047/Maine%2DCoast%2DShellfish%2DEmployee%2DPleads%2DGuilty%2Din%2DScam%2Dthat%2DSent%2D50000%2Dlbs%2Dof%2DMaine%2DLobster%2Dto%2DChin.a

188. Thermolicer Kills with Warm Water - also OptiLice, Skamik, FLS: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/vet-warns-of-head-injury-risk-to-fish-during-delousing/.

187. Fish Escape - Grieg, Shetland, 500, Score Holms, Scalloway: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/500-fish-escape-during-grieg-stocking-operation/.

186. Fish Escapes - Scotland, 1558 Marine Harvest, Nov, March 17,398 Scottish Sea Farms’ Bloody Bay, August, Scottish Salmon Company, 11,040, Geasgill: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/1558-fish-lost-after-rope-breaks-during-delousing/.

185. More Lice Inside Lice Skirts, Than Outside - Trondheim:  https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/news/more-lice-larvae-inside-cages-with-lice-skirts/.

184. Albertsons Backs Sustainable Salmon Sushi - 2300 store chain, USA: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/23/us-grocer-albertsons-makes-responsible-sushi-commitment/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=74c19f57c6-Europe_briefing_Jan_24_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-74c19f57c6-92426209.

183. Boom/Bust Industry - Mexico, shrimp, after EMS disease, industry rebounds, until the next disease: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1417659/mexican-shrimp-production-rebounds-to-pre-ems-levels?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=aefed11561-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-aefed11561-244877629.

182. New Fish Meal Plant? - Cargill, India, opens a huge, 90,000 mt plant when the industry is having to move to non0fish feed because the ocean fish have all been sucked up for feed and stocks have crashed:  http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1418883/cargill-opens-new-90000-ton-fish-feed-plant-in-india?utm_source=IntraFish+Salmon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=002eb691da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5c825a4a64-002eb691da-245113141.

181. Ban New Processors - NS, existing processors ask:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/24/nova-scotia-seafood-processors-seek-ban-on-newcomers/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=72b4b92235-Americas_briefing_Jan_24_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-72b4b92235-92426209.

180. Wastewater Infraction , Fines - Oregon, Pacific Seafood, $2150: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/24/pacific-seafood-plant-fined-for-wastewater-discharge/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=72b4b92235-Americas_briefing_Jan_24_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-72b4b92235-92426209.

179.  20,000 Fish Escape - Huon, yellowtail, in bad weather. Fish farms need to be on land: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/24/some-20000-fish-escape-huon-pens-in-extreme-weather/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=72b4b92235-Americas_briefing_Jan_24_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-72b4b92235-92426209.

178. Forced Labour, Human Rights Abuse On-going, Rampant - Thailand, Human Rights Watch report: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/24/labor-issues-in-thai-fisheries-remain-rampant/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=72b4b92235-Americas_briefing_Jan_24_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-72b4b92235-92426209.

177. Cooke 'Pleads' to Keep Farms - WA: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/19/committee-hears-cooke-pleas-on-protecting-salmon-farming/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=6a1c6d7fd6-Salmon_roundup_Jan_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-6a1c6d7fd6-92426209.

176. Minister Against Cooke Critics - :  http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1089456/NS%2DFisheries%2DMinister%2DDismisses%2DCritics%2Dof%2DCooke%2DAquaculture.

175. Cooke Case Heard - WA, Cooke pleads for $$$:  https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/19/committee-hears-cooke-pleas-on-protecting-salmon-farming/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=6818683090-Americas_briefing_Jan_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-6818683090-92426209.

174. Boom - Iceland, Fiskeldi Austfjarda, to increase salmon by 37,000mt: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/19/iceland-salmon-farmer-applies-for-10000t-expansion-eyes-sterility-tech/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=6818683090-Americas_briefing_Jan_19_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-6818683090-92426209.

173.  Dumping Tariff Update - USA, pangasius dumping, Vietneam: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/19/date-set-for-review-of-us-proposed-blanket-tariff-on-vietnam-pangasius/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=1c20585cbe-Europe_briefing_Jan_22_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-1c20585cbe-92426209.

172. Massive Escape - yellowtail, Australia: http://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/1415798/massive-yellowtail-escape-at-australian-farm?utm_source=IntraFish+Aquaculture+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a5233bb760-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ec4b681694-a5233bb760-244877629.

171. Fire Fisheries Minister - NS, over Jordan Bay farm collapse: http://www.seafoodnews.com/Story/1089635/Aquaculture%2DOpponents%2Din%2DNova%2DScotia%2DCall%2Dfor%2DFisheries%2DMinister%2Dto%2Dbe%2DFired.

170. Disease - IHN studied in WA: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1577/1548-8640%281972%2934%5B143%3ASFIHNI%5D2.0.CO%3B2?needAccess=true&journalCode=uzpf20.

169. Vaccines Don't Save Fish - CDN research: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/22/study-claims-vaccines-not-protecting-farmed-fish-from-disease/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=b0bbb9e51e-Europe_briefing_Jan_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-b0bbb9e51e-92426209.

168. Bust - scrapped Dongwong vessel leads to $11M loss: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/22/scrapped-dongwon-linked-vessel-leaves-11m-debt-in-its-wake/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=b0bbb9e51e-Europe_briefing_Jan_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-b0bbb9e51e-92426209.

167. Eviction Notice - Aboriginals hand Marine Harvest another eviction notice: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/23/bc-first-nations-hand-marine-harvest-another-eviction-notice/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=b7a72edc4b-Americas_briefing_Jan_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-b7a72edc4b-92426209.

166. Price Fixing - Sysco and US Foods joins the legal battle of the thrre biggies for tuna price fixing: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2018/01/23/broadliners-sysco-us-foods-join-in-lawsuits-alleging-tuna-price-fixing/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=b7a72edc4b-Americas_briefing_Jan_23_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-b7a72edc4b-92426209.