How Bad Are Farmed Fish? Mowi Knows

Here is what Marine Harvest had to say in a stock offering for Cermaq in 2013 about how bad its farmed fish is for people: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1567528/000091957413003746/d1386163_ex1.htm.

What follows is only part of the risks Mowi Harvest knows its fish suffer. See page 7 and follow the many diseases to get to the following, as put together by Safe Salmon who want you to contact your candidates to find out if they will take fish farms out of the water: https://www.safesalmon.ca/?utm_campaign=writ_2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=safesalmon.

The start is: 1.1.2.1 Biological risks and diseases - and the risks of this type go on for 10 pages, before the prospectus moves on to other kinds of risks. I said: 10 pages. And one of them is, if you can believe it: sabotage by people who don't like fish farms.

Then there are the risks from Cermaq in this prospectus, another 10 pages, winding up on page 26

Here is the bit excised by Safe Salmon:

"Carcinogens, heavy metals, bacterial infections, fungal toxins, and even flame-retardants??! 

In Marine Harvest’s own words, the following paragraphs were taken from an entire section called Contamination:

* “Farmed salmon may be exposed to contamination by undesirable substances through raw materials and ingredients in the feed, polluted waters, poor processing hygiene and cross contamination during handling 

* “Potential contaminants include organic contaminants such as dioxins and PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls), mycotoxins, pesticides, anti-oxidants (such as ethoxyquin, BHA and BHT), brominated flame retardants, inorganic contaminants such as lead, mercury, arsenic and cadmium and bacterial contamination.” 

* "Various perceived health concerns, amongst others in relation to the level of organic contaminants, cancer-causing PCB (polychlorinated biphenyls) and dioxins in farmed salmon, have attracted negative attention in the media in the past."

• “Future accidents of product contamination could result in recall of Marine Harvest’s products, product liability, negative publicity and governmental sanctions and may have a material adverse effect on the business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flow of the Group.”
• “Oil or petroleum products floating into a farm will severely affect the fish’s ability for normal oxygen uptake and shed an unpleasant taste on surviving fish, which practically makes the fish inedible.” 

'Cancer-causing'? Practically inedible?! Does this sound like something you would feed your family?

If you’re outraged, you’re in good company.

It is up to us to tell ALL local political candidates: "My vote depends on your commitment to stop the contamination from factory fish farms and banish them from our coast for good. DO YOUR JOB.”

Click the website above to send an email to your candidates.

A huge thank you to the 700 of you who have already done this. Together you have sent more than 2500 emails to your local political candidates!

Please forward this email to anyone you know who cares about our health, our coast, and the future of our wild salmon. 

We are going to make this impossible for the politicians to ignore. 

For the salmon,

Sam, for the Safe Salmon team"

So, send the email to your candidates, make a donation. (And keep those sabotage notions to yourself.)