2012 In Review - Chile and Norway at Odds

This is the view from Chile: http://www.santiagotimes.cl/business/agriculture/23412-chilean-salmon-industry-profits-hit-us29-billion-in-2011.

They are showing $2.9billion in 2011 and with 2012 going higher. However, Norway has just been relieved of duty in the USA - a 26% price drop - and they will be going after the USA market where Chile and Canada, in particular, sell their fish.

In addition, Norway has been raiding Scottish markets:

http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/17055/Divide_and_Distract.html.

There will be a glut of fish as the year goes on because Chile is coming out of its ISA crisis.

Meanwhile in BC Norwegian fish farm Marine Harvest has laid off 60 staff and industry employment is down to 820 employees.

Purpose of Fish Farm News and Science

The purpose of this blog is to identify key fish farm science documents for those looking to address concerns about open-containment, in-ocean farms, and to address specific issues from time to time.

Following posts will include, for instance, the David Miller, Spinwatch.org article on how the fish farms 'managed' a January, 2004 Science article in Scotland.

Then there is the manual fish farms put out on the strategies they employ to defuse complaints about fish farms.

Then there is the excellent 2010 study that details several complete designs of closed-containment, on-land systems that make more money than in-ocean, open-containment systems that are now technologically out of date.

Another is the list of 32 on-land, closed-containment, RAS systems that have come my way.

This blog will be document and weblink heavy.