Narwhal - Some Corrections to Sept 10 Article on Fish Farms in BC

DC Reid. I do extensive work on fish farms.

On-land is common. My list has more than 370 on-land fish farms around the globe, meaning the 75 listed in the Narwhal is vastly low. See:: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.

In-ocean fish farms have so many problems that I am up to over 6500 problems in the past five years. Grieg is one of the least stable of the large companies and has lots of problems around the world: Take a look at one post: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2021/07/bad-news-bites-16th-post.html. It also links to the other 15 posts I have made to add up the problems.

In-ocean BC is going to be put out of business by on-land in the USA, as 85% of its product goes there but Americans now want environmentally sound, on-land fish farms. Atlantic Sapphire, just one company, is headed beyond 220,000MT to 260,000MT which is triple the output of BC in-water. The reality is that BC needs to come on-land or be put out of business.

And just so that you know, BC fish farms vastly over rate their employment and revenue. They say 7,000, but the BC Govt's own report says it is only 1800, or 25%,and has been declining for almost 20 years. See: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/03/mar-21-2019-bc-stats-report-2016.html. We don't need this very small industry destroying our wild salmon and aquatic environment.

I have found almost 1200 articles on the benefits and good points of on-land fish farms. This means they are not just common but they comprise an avalanche of good news. See: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2021/05/good-news-post-now-more-than-thousand.html.

BC - Trudeau Getting Fish Farms Out of the Water

Trudeau wants Closed Containment by 2025. Little does he know that the same is true from green parties all over the world, that is how bad in-ocean is.

From my good news post on on-land, see:

222. Greens Want Closed Fish Farms - Norway, by 2025: https://www.fishfarmingexpert.com/article/norway-greens-want-salmon-farms-enclosed-by-2025/?utm_source=netflex&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter__09_09_2021.

And read it and cheer, while Mowi reads it and weeps. Too bad, you've destroyed the oceans all over the world for far too long. And the people who have to live with in-ocean fish farms finally want them out.

Here is the news article:

Norway’s Green Party (MDG) wants all fish farms to be required to use closed technology by 2025, it says in its manifesto for the country’s general election on Monday.

By Editors

The MDG also wants to restrict new licences to closed fish farms only, and to ban growth of existing farms before 2025 unless they have zero emissions, zero lice, zero escapes and low mortality.

The party’s other proposals include intensifying the supervision of aquaculture activities by all relevant authorities, strengthening independent research on how aquaculture affects ecosystems in fjords and sea areas, and introducing both a ground rent tax and an environmental tax on farming.

One seat

The MDG currently hold just one of the 169 seats in the Norwegian Parliament, which is elected by proportional representation, but small parties can wield influence beyond their size because of the need for parties to form alliances to govern.

The proposal to used closed technology by 2025 is similar to a policy being pursued by Canada’s minority Liberal administration in British Columbia. The Liberals, who are also fighting a general election, want to “transition” net pen salmon farming in BC into some form of unspecified closed containment by 2025.

In Scotland, the Greens – who have formed an alliance with the ruling Scottish National Party and have two ministers in government - also want to transition salmon farming into land-based facilities, although the SNP doesn’t support that policy. In an interview earlier this year,Scottish Greens co-leader Lorna Slater, who is now Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity, admitted that she didn’t know where Scotland’s salmon farms were located.

More text to follow. This surely is against what fish farms want in BC, which is to be left alone in the ocean, when 75% of BC residents want them out of our ocean. If they want to go on land, that is fine.