Fish Farms, Big Tobacco, Pretty Much the Same Thing - Take Two

Go to the original post here: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/02/big-toobacco-big-fish-farms-pretty-much.html. Or go directly to the Sarah K. Cox report on PR and big fish farms, in BC: http://web.idv.nkmu.edu.tw/~tomhsiao/S%20T%20Management/DiminishingReturns_final.pdf.

There is so much damning information in the Cox report on how the industry did a makeover of its image to be seen as a healthy food, sustainable industry, with no environmental problems that it bears a second post.

Well, there was this: "A decade after the SHC’s creation, following what it calls a “Herculean” effort, nine aquaculture therapeutants were licensed for use in Canada. They included medications for sea lice and ISA, two of the most challenging health issues for salmon farms." (P 90)

So, this industry that says ISA is not in BC, had, almost two decades before, a medication okayed for ISA, the worst fish farm disease. And more importantly, there never was ISA in BC until fish eggs were brought from the western Atlantic, Iceland/Norway and so on. But they needed a drug for it. And to this day, the big three deny there is ISA in BC even though Alex Morton has published a paper on the Norwegian strain being in BC: https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12985-015-0459-1.

This paper also has a table of global ISA disease in it, so...

Is disingenuous too polite a word for the fish farms? Deny it's here but get a drug to kill it okayed?

Here is a bit of malaise in the industry, that had a major IHN outbreak early in the 21st century:

"All four companies suffering losses in 2002 cited disease outbreaks in British Columbia as a major contributing factor. The fifth, Nutreco, noted that disease on B.C.salmon farms had caused a decline of its fish feed sales on Canada’s west coast. Stolt-Nielsen, reporting on its Stolt Sea Farm subsidiary, wrote: “In addition to weak pricing, the industry in North America has suffered severely in 2002 from extraordinary mortalities, caused by viral and parasitic infections.” (P12))

An example is Pan Fish (that became Marine Harvest). It lost $208.6M in its global fish farm operations. (P13)

This is a humdinger of a document for thorough research and I suggest you read it. It is worth a couple of hours. You will find it hard to believe that fish farms are still in business.

P14 and 15 document the industry disease losses all over the province to IHNV in 2002 and 2003. At the last minute an 11th hour Sierra/Suzuki injunction prevented the fish offal being unloaded from a processor into the Fraser River. This document just keeps on getting worse.

Sea lice killed off the Broughton pink run in 2002: "“sea lice were associated with the decline observed in the Broughton Archipelago,”". (P 15). At the same time, BC had the highest Kudoa parasite losses in the world - myoliquifaction.

And check out the Fish Health Database (P17) the Province set up. The ongoing losses are hard to believe.

And in 2003, 25,445 kgs of antibiotics were used on fish farm fish in BC, (P29) second only to Chile.

And on the issue of jobs, as I have repeatedly pointed out, the jobs are far lower than industry/DFO claims, and workers are fired: "Pan Fish, for instance, employs about 300 people in B.C. This is down from a high of 500, and far fewer than the 950 workers Pan Fish announced back in 2001 that it planned to hire.

The company also scaled down its smolt production from five million in 2002 to 1.5 million in 2003. “The Canadian operations are struggling,” explained a Washington state Pan Fish manager. “Production is way down...they don’t need all of those people...” (P 30)

And wages in the industry are low and were declining in the period. See the graph on P 31, while CEO salaries could be in the millions, even in 2003.

Cermaq, Pan Fish and the others were repeatedly fined up to five figure amounts for infractions, though a blind eye was turned to many offences. (P 36)

And court cases were common with aboriginals who didn't want fish farms. (P42)

Another feature of fish farms, globally, is that they are a litigious industry, as I have pointed out, with cases worth millions of dollars. Stolt thought things would get worse.

"Stolt believes that the flurry of environmental and consumer challenges to the salmon farming industry will increase in the future. Escaped fish, the spread of disease and parasites such as sea lice, the impact of antibiotic residues, synthetic pigmenting agents in feed and chemical residues such as PCBs in farmed salmon are some of the .issues Stolt believes the industry may have to confront." (P44)

The Cermaq labour relations scandal, thanks to Dagbladet, a Norwegian news paper,and the Chilean government, is jaw dropping stuff to read, starting on P 47.

There is far more stuff than this quote - note that Cermaq was called Mainstream in many countries: "“... is paying its workers less than minimum wage for overtime. Those hours have to be at least minimum wage. If we can’t negotiate a settlement, we will have to fine them,” said Moyano. And fine Mainstream the government did. Since 2002, the Chilean government has fined Mainstream 13 times for a range of violations. These include failing to issue employees with protective equipment, not giving workers employment contracts and not giving them a day off each week. The Chilean government even fined Mainstream for illegally suspending the company’s first legally elected union leader.133 In a report to Mainstream, Chile’s labour inspectorate wrote that the company violations revealed a “high degree of unreliability in Mainstream.”134

And get the communications' spin in Cermaq's comments, leading one to have very little belief in the veracity of what any fish farm says:  "Dagbladet continued to write about Mainstream, even after the company issued a public statement rejecting what it called Dagbladet’s “misleading and deceitful accusations.” The company said it strives to have excellent relations with workers and that its Chilean management is dedicated to “maintaining the highest internal standards on work safety, training courses, communication with employees, etc.”137

Cermaq says this even though the Cox report goes on for almost two pages on labour problems in the industry, particularly Cermaq. Cermaq did a little window dressing, but the industry laid off 13,000 to 26,000 workers in the ISA crisis in 2008, and in the 2016 algal bloom crisis, that killed 38 million fish, the job losses were pegged at 5,000 people.

Read all the public protests, beginning on P 52.

And on fish escapes, a few stats (P54, 55):

Scotland - 1,000,000 - 1998 to 2001
Scotland - 430,000 - 2002
Scotland - 100,000 - Nov 2003
Norway - 370,000 -  2001
Norway - 730,000 - 2002
Norway - 415,000 - 2003
Chile -  900,000 annually
Chile - 1,000,000 - July storm, 2004
BC - 10,000 to 90,000 annually, 1991, 2004
BC - 1,000,000 lost in BC from 1990 to 2004. (P57) Intrafish reported
BC - 1,000,000 - chinook, 1989 - 2002
Faroe Islands - 600,000 - 2002 (Pan Fish was a minor shareholder)
 
Pan Fish tried to not report escapes from its global farms. And when citizens reported them to police in Norway over 11,000 lost fish, Pan Fish said it had implemented an: “internal company plan of action against escapes.” Sure.

Cox goes on to list even further escape data.

And if you go back to the following post, you will find how much money we have given to fish farms over the years: $107M + $177M = $284M, and this only includes early years, and the disease payments, in other words, the figure is low. See: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/06/taxpayer-support-for-fish-farms-too.html.

Also read the story on disease funds to fish farms. It starts on P 79 in Cox.

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The PR story, what this post is actually about, starts on P 81 in Cox.

The first post on this site is: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/02/big-toobacco-big-fish-farms-pretty-much.html.

After Hill and Knowlton worked with the BC industry, to change the image to how nutritious, sustainable and environmentally healthy farmed fish was, it issued 32 press releases in Feb/March 2003, four times its previous output for the entire year in 2002.

"Hill & Knowlton said it would provide the BCSFA with a “whole range of communication services and media relations,” beginning with a glossy website full of information for the public and media. Soon the BCSFA launched its “Aquaculture Feeds Families” campaign... "

How did it go? Well, ED Walling said: “The Future of Aquaculture Looks Hopeful as the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association Celebrates Progress and Potential at Annual General Meeting.” Said Walling: “...it would appear that the truth about salmon farming – that it is an economically, environmentally sustainable industry – is becoming better understood.214”

So nothing changed but the press releases. And remember all the negatives listed above. That is fish farms for you, and Hill and Knowlton. It is not about truth, it is about telling your best story, even if it is BS.

Now, you will recall the SOTA board from Prof Miller's book about the conspiracy of government and industry in Scotland in 2004 to eliminate the science by Hites et al on the cancer-causing chemicals in farmed fish. They destroyed the article in little more than a week, even though it was correct. See Miller:  http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2011/10/key-document-fish-farm-tactics.html.

SOTA was one of the industry ruses used to fuel the false stories about Hites.

Here is Cox's list: " Nutreco, Heritage, Cermaq and Stolt – are represented on SOTA’s board of directors.215 Pan Fish is also a SOTA member, although not represented on the board. The president of SOTA’s board is Philip Fitzpatrick, business group managing director for Marine Harvest’s American operations. Jim Gracie, president of Stolt Sea Farm Americas, is secretary of the board" (P 84)

Then there was:  "Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (CAIA)"

And the BC/CDN press ate it up rather than checking the facts: "The Vancouver Sun, began to include SOTA’s viewpoints as well those of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association. SOTA’s point of view has also been publicized in Canada’s national newspapers The Globe and Mail and the National Post. Companies like Heritage and Nutreco have also opened a new channel to government policy-makers through SOTA" (P 86)

Recently, I sent Miller the link to Cox's PDF, and he said, gee I wish I had had this when we figured out the Scotland story. It would have saved them a lot of time, that the exact same thing was happening in BC, coordinated globally by most of the same industry orgs masquerading as arms- length orgs: communications spin. 

Then there is the PAA, preceded by the SPAA, and you will remember it from the fake news site in BC, Sea West News and its article about conservation orgs supporting fish farms... I don't think so: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/06/conservation-orgs-support-in-ocean-fish.html.

All the BC fish farm people on the claimed arms' length PAA org is a real hoot. (P 87)

And then there is the SHC - the Salmon Health Consortium - it lobbied government until it got 9 therapeutants - meaning chemicals for lice and diseases - okayed by the feds. Go back up and look at the losses to disease (ISA) and lice and you will see why: they need chemicals to kill things in fish farming.

But there is this troubling thing. "It began as a three-way alliance among the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association, the New Brunswick Salmon Growers’ Association and the Canadian Animal Health Institute. The consortium identified medication needs for farmed salmon, found pharmaceutical corporations willing to develop products and – sometimes with money from the federal government – helped pharmaceuticals jump through Canada’s regulatory hoops. The consortium did this for 10 years, until it voluntarily dissolved in 2002, its mission virtually accomplished." (P 90)

Members were from fish farms and contractors in the field, so they got money to do the work, and to deal effectively with drug companies and the provincial and federal governments. Voila, they got all those chemicals, and their own regime for using them. And many got paid for doing it. How do the rest of us get those jobs?

So where did those SHC execs go after 2004, you wonder? "Many former SHC staff and board members today work for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture aquaculture drugs and vaccines." (P 92) Hmm.

And there you have it, everything but the recommendations. I will put those in the next post, as this one is getting very long. It is the PR angles that are important, and why the comparison with Big Tobacco is fitting. And, they used the same PR firm, Hill and Knowlton.

Cooke Farm Comes Apart, Government Covers Up, NS, Updated Feb 13, 2018

Cooke loses another fish farm, this time in NS, CDN. I will give you the several letters that explain the case of how the site is in the way of too much weather, and three farms have been lost.

Here, from Darroll Tingley

Cooke Site 1358 Jordan Bay

Mr. Rankin

Minister of Environment

Chickens are coming home to roost.

Minister of Aquaculture Keith Colwell told the world that with the new aquaculture regulations any and all problems will be handled by the Nova Scotia Department of Environment. Those assurances ended today when NS Environment informed myself that any issues with escaped/deceased salmon must be referred to the Minister of Aquaculture for disclosure. In addition the phone number Minister Colwell referred individuals to was wrong. (Incorrect # 1-800-565-2224...correct # 1-877-936-8476)

Also today I was informed that the Cooke Liaison Committee does not exist in Shelburne. Minister Colwell and BS Hancock have referred individuals to contact the committee for questions/resolutions. David Levy, the last holdout of the committee, stated that the phony committee no longer exists. As a Municipality of Shelburne Councillor he will take the environmental destruction to the Municipal Council.

Mr. Rankin please advise Minister Colwell that NS Environment is unable to answer questions on escaped or dead fish. That this is a matter for Fisheries and Aquaculture. Incompetence at this level should be met with fury by the Premier and a firing should be in order.

Mr. Rankin the force of the January 4, 2018 storm at Site 1358 dislodged 3 corner buoys, several cages were under water, 17 out of the 20 bird cages were violently torn off, several cages were split open allowing salmon to escape. The Minister holds on to the false claim that no salmon escaped. Colwell is making  you, the premier and government look stupid. Honesty would help!

In addition, Minister Colwell has stated that very few salmon perished in the historic storm. No one familiar with fin fish aquaculture in coastal waters believe this fable. Local lobster fishers in the area don't believe that any survived based on the severity of the storm. As well, Cooke Aqua has made no attempt to feed any surviving fish. Alive or dead?

Mr. Rankin the whole world is watching this marine disaster. Mr. Cowell is incapable of rational behaviour and the mater should be referred to the cabinet for resolution. The lease for Site 1358 should be terminated and the site cleaned up. Under no circumstances should Cooke or any other company be able to operate an aquaculture site in these coastal waters. Three complete failures in a couple of years is all the evidence the government needs to make this just decision. 

Residents in Jordan Bay/West Green Harbour deserve better from their government. Blindly supporting the company over local interests boggles the mind. Time for corrective action.

I await your reply.

Darrell Tingley

Chester, NS

Now, the letter from the government:

 Mr. Darrell Tingley
dwtpres@aol.com
Dear Mr. Tingley:
NOVA SCOTIA
Environment
Office of the Minister
PO Box 442, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 2P8 • www.novascotia.ca/nse
Our File number:
10700-40-52740/52780

Thank you for your December 28, 2017 and January 22, 2018 emails concerning Cooke
Aquaculture. We take all reports of non-compliance seriously, and want to ensure we inspect
aquaculture sites to evaluate whether they are following the applicable legislation. 

In response to your concerns at the Cooke Aquaculture sites you identified, NSE Conservation
Enforcement Officers conducted an investigation into the allegations, spoke to Fisheries &
Aquaculture staff, Cooke Aquaculture staff, and conducted on-the-water site inspections.

Based on our investigation, we found no evidence of a contravention of the provincial legislation
regulating aquaculture. As a result, we concluded our investigation. I would also like to add that
the shoreline cleanup was completed by January 23, 2018. There may be some pieces that were
missed; however, the operator of the aquaculture sites plans to conduct shoreline sweeps in the
future to collect any debris that was missed.

Thank you for your concerns. Please direct further inquiries to Orlando Fraser, Manager,
Conservation Enforcement - Western Region, at (902} 798-7914 or via email at
Orlando.fraser@novascotia.ca
Sincerely,
~~..,
lain Rankin, MLA
Minister of Environment
c: Orlando Fraser

Finally, the response after the government found 'no evidence of contravention':

Mr. Fraser

Environment NS

It has come to my attention that you have been assigned to future investigations surrounding site 1358 in Jordan Bay. Although Minister Rankin claims in his letter that all cleanup was completed on January 23, 2018 just yesterday, February 9,2018 staff from Environment and DNR were on site in West Green Harbour identifying the location(s) of additional debris. In fact, it is estimated that it will take weeks to clean up the mess around Blue Island.Does this not beg the question as to whether the necessary work has been completed?

In addition to the unfinished cleanup from the January 4, 2018 storm, Kelly Cove Salmon/Cooke Aquaculture are attempting to piece together aquaculture site 1358. Mr. Orlando are you in charge of this charade? Is it the company plan to put salmon smolt in the cages once the million or so pounds of dead salmon are removed? To date 30,000 pounds of dead salmon have been removed, however, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Are you in charge of ensuring the net pens are cleaned out from the salmon that perished in the aftermath of the January 4, 2018 winter hurricane? Or does that belong to Minister Colwell of Fisheries & Aquaculture? Who is responsible for controlling the "death slicks" floating away from the cages? Marine life is under threat and this is not being attended to. What government department is responsible?

Mr Fraser, the winter hurricane of January 4th, 2018 did significant damage to the infrastructure of site 1358. Three corner buoys were moved and the site no longer lies within its lease, 17 of 20 bird nets were ripped off, at least 2 net pens were torn open allowing all salmon in these pens to escape (estimated at a minimum of 20,000 fish). Thousands of feet of feeding tube and bird net supports were removed from the shoreline along with numerous other items too numerous to list. Who, if anyone, has given Kelly Cove Salmon/Cooke Aqua permission to rebuild site 1358? The site is compromised and a rebuild will fail and result in another collapse with the next storm. Mr. Fraser, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.

Mr. Fraser this is the 3rd successive failure of site 1358. In 2015 all salmon perished from super chill, in 2017 all died from disease and 2018 all perished as a result of winter storms. Who in their right mind would give approval for Kelly Cove Salmon/Cooke Aquaculture to murder another 500,000 salmon? What a disgusting industry and what an irresponsible government!

Mr. Fraser the fishers and residents of West Green Harbour/Jordan Bay have seen enough of this sick industry. Do the right thing and revoke the lease of site 1358. If Minister Colwell is responsible will you recommend to him to pull the plug? Are you up to the task?

Darrell Tingley

Chester, NS

This is how government acts against the interests and wishes of its own citizens that want fish farms on land. The tipping point on this issue took place four years ago with Norway refusing to auction anymore in-ocean licences, while granting on-land ones for free. Now WA has legislated them out of the water, making BC the only jurisdiction allowing fish farms on the Pacific ocean of North America.

And in Washington, Cooke says the government lacks the skills for a scientific explanation, missing the boat completely, because fish farms always argue for more science, and then, when it is in, say it doesn't say we are to blame... we need more science. And so on. Too bad for Cooke:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cooke-aquaculture-atlantic-salmon-escapes-investigation-washington-state-1.4528775.

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.