BC - Trudeau Getting Fish Farms Out of the Water

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

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

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

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

Here is the news article:

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

By Editors

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

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

One seat

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

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

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

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

Norwegians, Canadians, Europeans, Americans, First Nations Tell Norway to get Fish Farms Out of the Ocean

Please go and sign the petition that people from around the world are adding their name to. 3600 have signed so far to tell Norway to get its fish farms out of the water. Do read the comments as they truly come from consumers and citizens from around the world who are tired of the old-tech dinosaurs in-ocean fish farms. They need to be on land and closed to the environmen.

See: https://www.change.org/p/to-the-citizens-of-norway-divest-from-dirty-salmon.

Read this note from Alexandra Morton: When 63,000 diseased North American trout escaped into Norway's fjords in January, Norwegians made it clear salmon farming is threatening the last wild Atlantic salmon.  I realized both Canada and Norway are suffering bad government decisions that allow salmon farming to expand at the expense of local people and economies.  I believe we need to reach out across borders, across the world and make this industry grow up and clean up.  No more DIRTY SALMON.  

BC First Nations are against fish farms in Canada. BC has 200 First Nations, one third of all in Canada: http://www.ubcic.bc.ca/News_Releases/UBCICNews02251501.html#axzz3T927ykNl. Read their opposition to in-ocean fish farms.

DFO and Nancy Greene Want Fish Farms in BC? We Don't Want Them In Our Ocean

Dear Gail Shea

With your Pacific Region Marine Finfish Integrated Management of Aquaculture Plan, 2013 arriving on my desk today, I have to protest your considering more fish farms in BC.

You have not responded to Cohen yet and this is a deep, long-term resentment for BC. In this context, your getting senators to express positive things, and the ‘insouciant’ Nancy Greene Raine, a BC resident no less, what you are doing is reprehensible. More than 100,000 BC residents have signed a petition to get the farms out of the water. Don’t you get this?

But here is also what is happening right now here: BC is dead against the Northern Gateway Pipeline, dead against the Kinder Morgan pipeline, both of which are seen as the rest of Canada pushing oil and its problems down  BC throats – meaning Alberta, Harper, TROC and you. The Site C dam is also a big environmental issue here, but a made in BC issue, that is hot right now. And fracking is Clark’s big thing, but the rest of us are dead against our water being destroyed. Oh, and Obama is lowering emissions 30%. And you? Not so much.

In addition, the USA NAFTA Panel has agreed to investigate the Canadian government’s refusal to protect wild salmon in BC because of its conflict of interest with fish farms. And the BC alliance of aboriginal chiefs, some 80 First Nations, has finally come out completely against in-ocean fish farms. And then there is the Namgis Kuterra on-land salmon that Safeway will now buy. In-ocean fish farms are technological dinosaurs and toast.

What does it take to convince you that BC will not put up with more fish farms in our ocean?

Go to my www.fishfarmnews.blogspot.com site for a summary of 15,000 pages of fish farm environmental damage science. There are two documents that went to Nancy Greene, who is in the process of destroying her own name in BC - I am sorry to have to say it as it is: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/nancy-greene-raine-and-federal-senators.html; and, http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/04/nancy-greene-raine-fish-farms-what.html.

The BC Stats report noted in the pieces shows conclusively that fish farms are flat-lined in BC, and it’s because no one here will eat the stuff, and it has to be exported to the USA. But there, with the removal of a 26% duty, the Norwegian companies that own 90% of BC fish farm will be exporting from Norway against the interests of their own BC operations, as well as setting up shop in the USA. BC fish farms are toast and it is their own companies that are doing it to them. It has nothing to do with the 'strictness of the laws' as you have claimed – it’s the companies themselves. You can’t grow what can’t be sold. Oh, and that BC Stats doc is your own DFO document that you paid for but don’t use anymore than you do Cohen’s 1200 page tome. Use them.

The BC Stats report has the only trustable stats out there. And I have since ferreted out that there are actually only 795 actual fish farm jobs in BC with the sewage damage of $10.4 billion. How can you possibly support what is so dramatically net negative to the BC economy? We in BC just don’t want these in our ocean anymore, with their diseases and etc. Put them in Ottawa, if you want them. We don’t want them.

And you do remember that BC is where Greenpeace was born don’t you? BC is Canada’s environmental heart and home to our iconic wild Pacific salmon. All ten species of salmonids are threatened by in-ocean fish farms. Do the right thing and take them out of the water.

Sorry to be so harsh, but I have never met a single BC resident who thinks fish farms should be in the ocean. I have never met NGR, but have hope for her, too.

DC Reid

One further comment: if you read the DFO report, it takes the BC Stats multiplier figure of 1700 jobs, and more than doubles it to over 3900. Sure. 

2012 In Review - Chile and Norway at Odds

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

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

In addition, Norway has been raiding Scottish markets:

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

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

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