These are the most popular posts, as in, most visited posts on Fish Farm News in May of 2021.
1. The solutions to salmon exploitation: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/dfos-public-consultation-on-framework.html.
This is a long post that critiques DFO on its second-rate public plans.
2. GOOD NEWS POST: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2021/05/good-news-post-now-more-than-thousand.html.
This is all the good news on on-land fish farms around the world. The stunning part of this is that I now have more than 1,000 articles/news/papers on on-land, proving that on-land is mainsream and anyone who claims otherwise is simply wrong. If it is a fish farms company like MOWI, that is a public face answer when behind the scenes they know perfectly well that on-land is taking over the industry.
3. And the perennial most viewed article on this site is my post on the 365 on-land fish farms I have found around the world: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.
4. A BC Plan to Bring Back Wild Salmon covers all issues succinctly: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/02/wild-bc-salmon-plan-contact-your-mla.html.
5. Handling, Stress Affect Farmed Salmon - : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2021/06/handling-stress-affect-fish-farm-salmon.html.
6. Fish Farm Problems on a Global Scale - This is one of the most important posts on this site. It completely destroys the fish farm claim of 'jobs and revenue'. It also has the most important paper I have ever read on fish farm issues, including jobs, and also social indicators, which is rarely covered. It is the Inka Milewski, Ruth Salmon (Yes, Salmon) one and if you read only one paper this year on these issues, it should be theirs: https://www.blogger.com/blog/statspost/week/1880129387856188740/4647012937687712362.
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Friday, 11 June 2021
Friday, 3 July 2020
MOST POPULAR POSTS - June 2020
The Most Popular Posts in June are:
1. Greg Tayulor - Holding DFO to Account on Endangered Chinook: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/05/reg-taylor-holding-dfo-to-account-on.html. I have made comments on where I think support for wild salmon is needed, not simply reducing sport fishing of a population facing extinction.
2. Most Popular Posts - December, 2019: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/01/most-popoular-posts-december-2019.html. Each month I make a list of those posts that have gleaned the most page views. And sometimes this list is high on the list for readers of this site.
3. Technical Information on Sewage Comparisons: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/06/technical-info-on-sewage-comparisons.html. This is interesting science on a slightly different view from what I have written. Do read it.
4. 320 On Land Fish Farm Systems Around the World!!! : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. This is the all time number one read post on this blog.
5. Most Popular Posts: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/01/january-2017-most-popular-posts-on-fish.html. And the number one post on this list is the David Miller one from 2011 where he showed how the fish farm industry conspired to destroy the science on fish farm chemicals in farmed fish, Hites et al. This is the issue - read the Miller post - that made me decide to get involved in the fight to get fish farms out of the ocean.
6. GOOD NEWS POST: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-news-post-links-to-on-land-closed.html. There has been an explosion of good news on on-land fish farms. The list is approaching 500 articles, papers, analyses and so on.
7. BAD NEWS BITES: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/05/bad-news-bites-fifth-post.html. The bad news in in-ocean fish farms. We are approaching 6000 problems. Hard to believe but true.
8. Atlantic Salmon Breed in BC Rivers : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/09/atlantic-salmon-breed-in-bc-rivers.html. This, again, is a classic post on this site. Among other things it allows calculation of a passive, leakage escape number of 153,000 salmon per crop cycle. And DFO tried to suppress Volpe's research. But failed.
9. Wild BC Salmon Plan - Contact your MLA: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/02/wild-bc-salmon-plan-contact-your-mla.html. We need your voice to contact the BC government to get a move on, before it its too late for wild salmon.
1. Greg Tayulor - Holding DFO to Account on Endangered Chinook: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/05/reg-taylor-holding-dfo-to-account-on.html. I have made comments on where I think support for wild salmon is needed, not simply reducing sport fishing of a population facing extinction.
2. Most Popular Posts - December, 2019: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/01/most-popoular-posts-december-2019.html. Each month I make a list of those posts that have gleaned the most page views. And sometimes this list is high on the list for readers of this site.
3. Technical Information on Sewage Comparisons: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/06/technical-info-on-sewage-comparisons.html. This is interesting science on a slightly different view from what I have written. Do read it.
4. 320 On Land Fish Farm Systems Around the World!!! : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. This is the all time number one read post on this blog.
5. Most Popular Posts: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/01/january-2017-most-popular-posts-on-fish.html. And the number one post on this list is the David Miller one from 2011 where he showed how the fish farm industry conspired to destroy the science on fish farm chemicals in farmed fish, Hites et al. This is the issue - read the Miller post - that made me decide to get involved in the fight to get fish farms out of the ocean.
6. GOOD NEWS POST: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-news-post-links-to-on-land-closed.html. There has been an explosion of good news on on-land fish farms. The list is approaching 500 articles, papers, analyses and so on.
7. BAD NEWS BITES: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/05/bad-news-bites-fifth-post.html. The bad news in in-ocean fish farms. We are approaching 6000 problems. Hard to believe but true.
8. Atlantic Salmon Breed in BC Rivers : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/09/atlantic-salmon-breed-in-bc-rivers.html. This, again, is a classic post on this site. Among other things it allows calculation of a passive, leakage escape number of 153,000 salmon per crop cycle. And DFO tried to suppress Volpe's research. But failed.
9. Wild BC Salmon Plan - Contact your MLA: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/02/wild-bc-salmon-plan-contact-your-mla.html. We need your voice to contact the BC government to get a move on, before it its too late for wild salmon.
Thursday, 5 March 2020
MOST POPULAR POSTS, FEB, 2020
Here are the most read posts on this site in Feb, 2020:
1. GOOD NEWS POST, Links to On-land Closed Containment, Studies, News, Papers, : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-news-post-links-to-on-land-closed.html. This post makes a list of the good news about on-land fish farms, systems that are taking the globe, and making the polluting in-ocean fish farms more and more untenable. I have found 325 good news stories about on-land in little more than a year.
2. 308 On Land Fish Farms Systems!! And more than 20,000 actual farms around the world: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. This post, started in 2016, is the perennial favourite on this site. It is, after all, the proof that putting fish farms on land will soon be the norm, rather than the vastly polluting in-ocean fish farms of the past.
3. BC Stats Reports: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/03/mar-21-2019-bc-stats-report-2016.html. These are the real numbers to do with jobs and revenue, GDP and the rest - the 2012 and 2016 reports. They paint a sombre picture of the in-ocean fish farms compared withe sport, processing and commercial industries in BC. And the industry figures vastly overstate these actual numbers. This is the number one post to see how the industries to do with salmon stack up.
4. State of Salmon Aquaculture Technology: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/02/state-of-salmon-aquaculture-technology.html. This one gives the ground proofing against the DFO study and fish farm stats which are vastly overstated. In-ocean fish farms are much smaller than they claim. I have stats from more believable sources and they say these figures and report are bull.
5. BAD NEWS BITES: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/02/bad-news-bites-post-14-5500-problems.html. This is the 14th post of 500 items I have found in the global fish farm/seafood industry press in the past few years. When this post reaches 500, I will have found 6,000 problems. Yes, even I am surprised just how much dirt and how many sleazy things happen in this big bucks, cartel prone, catastrophe causing industry.
6. DFO’s Public Consultation on the Framework for Aquaculture Risk Management (FARM): https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/dfos-public-consultation-on-framework.html.This is a major post that analyzes the poorly named FARM framework from four different perspectives. You can read one or another, or all and be informed that DFO's plan can be criticized in many different ways.
7. Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/04/fish-farms-kill-wild-salmonids-says.html. The public knows what the fish farms refuse to know: fish farms kill wild salmonids, up to 50%, around the world. Don't let DFO tell you any different. Or fish farms.
8. Getting Fish Farms Out of the Water and Set Up on Land in BC: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/getting-fish-farms-out-of-ocean-and-set.html. Please, please send a letter to Trudeau or Jordan telling them to fulfill their election promise to get fish farms out of the water.
1. GOOD NEWS POST, Links to On-land Closed Containment, Studies, News, Papers, : https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/good-news-post-links-to-on-land-closed.html. This post makes a list of the good news about on-land fish farms, systems that are taking the globe, and making the polluting in-ocean fish farms more and more untenable. I have found 325 good news stories about on-land in little more than a year.
2. 308 On Land Fish Farms Systems!! And more than 20,000 actual farms around the world: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. This post, started in 2016, is the perennial favourite on this site. It is, after all, the proof that putting fish farms on land will soon be the norm, rather than the vastly polluting in-ocean fish farms of the past.
3. BC Stats Reports: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/03/mar-21-2019-bc-stats-report-2016.html. These are the real numbers to do with jobs and revenue, GDP and the rest - the 2012 and 2016 reports. They paint a sombre picture of the in-ocean fish farms compared withe sport, processing and commercial industries in BC. And the industry figures vastly overstate these actual numbers. This is the number one post to see how the industries to do with salmon stack up.
4. State of Salmon Aquaculture Technology: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/02/state-of-salmon-aquaculture-technology.html. This one gives the ground proofing against the DFO study and fish farm stats which are vastly overstated. In-ocean fish farms are much smaller than they claim. I have stats from more believable sources and they say these figures and report are bull.
5. BAD NEWS BITES: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/02/bad-news-bites-post-14-5500-problems.html. This is the 14th post of 500 items I have found in the global fish farm/seafood industry press in the past few years. When this post reaches 500, I will have found 6,000 problems. Yes, even I am surprised just how much dirt and how many sleazy things happen in this big bucks, cartel prone, catastrophe causing industry.
6. DFO’s Public Consultation on the Framework for Aquaculture Risk Management (FARM): https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/07/dfos-public-consultation-on-framework.html.This is a major post that analyzes the poorly named FARM framework from four different perspectives. You can read one or another, or all and be informed that DFO's plan can be criticized in many different ways.
7. Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/04/fish-farms-kill-wild-salmonids-says.html. The public knows what the fish farms refuse to know: fish farms kill wild salmonids, up to 50%, around the world. Don't let DFO tell you any different. Or fish farms.
8. Getting Fish Farms Out of the Water and Set Up on Land in BC: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/getting-fish-farms-out-of-ocean-and-set.html. Please, please send a letter to Trudeau or Jordan telling them to fulfill their election promise to get fish farms out of the water.
Saturday, 1 February 2020
Most Popular Posts - Jan, 2020
Here are the most popular posts on this site in Jan 2020. This
site puts the post at the end of the month or the first day of the
following month, or so I say. This means that it is very easy to find
the most popular posts back to Sept 1, 2016.
This site has a global audience, and on Jan 29, for example, the largest audience is from Russia. Other countries occupy this position on other days, such as Canada, USA, Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Ukraine, Australia, China, India, France, Netherlands and so on.
So, here are the posts:
1. Jobs and Revenue? Hasta la Vista In-ocean Fish Farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/12/jobs-and-revenue-hasta-la-vista-fish.html. This post explodes the myth that in-[ocean fish farms are about jobs and revenue. It notes the government's own stats are way below the ones fish farms dream up. And revenue largely goes back to Norway to shareholders, and that jobs will decline drastically, as the Milewski article notes.
2. Escape of Non-native Salmon - Farm Phase Out Plan: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/12/escape-of-non-native-salmon-farm-phase.html. While fish farms and DFO say farmed fish can't escape, etc., I show John Volpe's work - that DFO is well aware of - shows that 153,000 fish leak out each crop and spawn in Van Isle rivers.
3. Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmonids, Says Status of Wild Salmon in Norway 2018. This is a major new report: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/04/fish-farms-kill-wild-salmonids-says.html. This post has been a well-viewed one for the past 10 months.
4. Atlantic Salmon Breed in BC Rivers - Tsitika, John Volpe, Economic Stats: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/09/atlantic-salmon-breed-in-bc-rivers.html. This is Volpe's most important paper on the problem in BC. You should read this one.
5. Escapes! Escapes! - http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/01/escapes-escapes.html. This one lists the catastrophes in fish escapes that happens all around the world, and often one or more escape events per week, it's that bad.
6. Most Stringent Laws in the World: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2013/12/most-stringent-fish-farm-laws-in-world.html. Fish farms like to claim they operate under the strictest laws in the world in every country in which they operate. This is categorically false because every country's laws are different.
7. BAD NEWS BITES - this one brings the problems I have found in the fish farm/seafood industry to 5,500 problems in the last several years. Hard to believe, yet true: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/09/bad-news-bites-post-13.html.
8. Dead Zones - Oceans at Critical Crossroads - Fish Farm and Other Pollution Must Stop: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/01/dead-zones-oceans-at-critical.html. This one is the most scary post in a long time, as the oceans are absorbing the equivalent of pollution of five Hiroshima bombs every second. You must read this and call on governments to stop in-ocean fish farms.
This site has a global audience, and on Jan 29, for example, the largest audience is from Russia. Other countries occupy this position on other days, such as Canada, USA, Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Ukraine, Australia, China, India, France, Netherlands and so on.
So, here are the posts:
1. Jobs and Revenue? Hasta la Vista In-ocean Fish Farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/12/jobs-and-revenue-hasta-la-vista-fish.html. This post explodes the myth that in-[ocean fish farms are about jobs and revenue. It notes the government's own stats are way below the ones fish farms dream up. And revenue largely goes back to Norway to shareholders, and that jobs will decline drastically, as the Milewski article notes.
2. Escape of Non-native Salmon - Farm Phase Out Plan: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/12/escape-of-non-native-salmon-farm-phase.html. While fish farms and DFO say farmed fish can't escape, etc., I show John Volpe's work - that DFO is well aware of - shows that 153,000 fish leak out each crop and spawn in Van Isle rivers.
3. Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmonids, Says Status of Wild Salmon in Norway 2018. This is a major new report: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/04/fish-farms-kill-wild-salmonids-says.html. This post has been a well-viewed one for the past 10 months.
4. Atlantic Salmon Breed in BC Rivers - Tsitika, John Volpe, Economic Stats: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2017/09/atlantic-salmon-breed-in-bc-rivers.html. This is Volpe's most important paper on the problem in BC. You should read this one.
5. Escapes! Escapes! - http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/01/escapes-escapes.html. This one lists the catastrophes in fish escapes that happens all around the world, and often one or more escape events per week, it's that bad.
6. Most Stringent Laws in the World: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2013/12/most-stringent-fish-farm-laws-in-world.html. Fish farms like to claim they operate under the strictest laws in the world in every country in which they operate. This is categorically false because every country's laws are different.
7. BAD NEWS BITES - this one brings the problems I have found in the fish farm/seafood industry to 5,500 problems in the last several years. Hard to believe, yet true: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/09/bad-news-bites-post-13.html.
8. Dead Zones - Oceans at Critical Crossroads - Fish Farm and Other Pollution Must Stop: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/01/dead-zones-oceans-at-critical.html. This one is the most scary post in a long time, as the oceans are absorbing the equivalent of pollution of five Hiroshima bombs every second. You must read this and call on governments to stop in-ocean fish farms.
Tuesday, 1 January 2019
MOST POPULAR POSTS - Dec 2018
These were the most popular posts on this site in December 2018:
1. Fake science by DFO - Riddell Response: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/fake-science-by-dfo-riddell-response.html. Just one of many posts on this site that shows that DFO, in Ottawa, uses fake processes/science to keep fish farms in the water, when everyone else wants them on land. My response is that if DFO wants fish farms in the water, then they should put one in the Rideau Canal in the centre of Ottawa and see how long it is before everyone in Ottawa hates them.
2. 260 On-land Fish Farm Systems. This is a perennial favourite on this site: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. It has papers, studies, economic analysis for the first half of the post, and about half way down, the on-land farms list starts.
3. 4000 Problems in 3 Years - No Problems in BC??? http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/12/4000-problems-in-3-years-no-problems-in.html. The fish farm trade ass in Atlantic Canada, less than a week after Cermaq and Marine Harvest sort of agreed to take some fish farms out of the Broughton Archipelago in BC, says there are no problems in BC and none in Atlantic Canada. I point out that my BAD NEWS BITES posts, now ten of them, have piled up 4,000 problems in the global fish farm/seafood industry press in the past three years. In other words, the trade ass is fibbing.
4. John Horgan Closes 10 Fish Farms!!!: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/12/john-horgan-closes-10-fish-farms.html.This is a blow by blow account of the hour long Global TV video of the Broughton announcement of taking some fish farms out of the water. This sounds good, but I'll believe it when it happens.
5. Ministers against Environment - Popham, Wilkinson, Horgan, Trudeau: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/12/ministers-against-environment-popham.html. Here is one where the Agriculture Ministers stand up and agree on an Aquaculture Act at the federal level. This is the kind of post that makes me doubtful that anything will happen in BC with fish farms being put on land. The point is, why make an Aqua Act, if you are serious about putting fish farms on land?
6. Good News Post - Links to On-land, Closed Containment, Papers, Studies, the on land news in the global press: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/links-to-on-land-closed-containment.html. There is now so much news in the global press on a daily basis that I decided to start a post.
7. Southern Resident Killer Whales - Sport Fishers and ENGOs: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/southern-resident-killer-whales-sport.html.
8. Toxic Sea Lice Chemicals - Norway is a Disaster Zone, Add Scotland: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/09/toxic-sea-lice-chemicals-norway-is.html. This one has had thousands and thousands of pageviews, particularly from Norway.
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If you are looking for a good book on the fish farm industry and our relation with salmon, pick up Martin Lee Mueller's book: Being Salmon Being Human, from Chelsea Press, VT, USA: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/being-salmon-being-human/.
This book should become a touchstone book much in the same way that Rachel Carson's A Silent Spring was in the 1960s, that started the environmental movement and lead to banning pesticides with chlorine and phorsphorus in them like DDT, PCBs, Dioxins, Furans and so on. Currently fish farms are using new chemicals (and a few old ones, most with chlorine/phosphorous) and claiming they are no problem. Read Mueller's book for a learned take on this issue, along with poetic passages on being salmon, being human - and why it matters that we retain our connection. Then read post 8 above on the Toxic Disaster in Norway.
1. Fake science by DFO - Riddell Response: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/fake-science-by-dfo-riddell-response.html. Just one of many posts on this site that shows that DFO, in Ottawa, uses fake processes/science to keep fish farms in the water, when everyone else wants them on land. My response is that if DFO wants fish farms in the water, then they should put one in the Rideau Canal in the centre of Ottawa and see how long it is before everyone in Ottawa hates them.
2. 260 On-land Fish Farm Systems. This is a perennial favourite on this site: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. It has papers, studies, economic analysis for the first half of the post, and about half way down, the on-land farms list starts.
3. 4000 Problems in 3 Years - No Problems in BC??? http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/12/4000-problems-in-3-years-no-problems-in.html. The fish farm trade ass in Atlantic Canada, less than a week after Cermaq and Marine Harvest sort of agreed to take some fish farms out of the Broughton Archipelago in BC, says there are no problems in BC and none in Atlantic Canada. I point out that my BAD NEWS BITES posts, now ten of them, have piled up 4,000 problems in the global fish farm/seafood industry press in the past three years. In other words, the trade ass is fibbing.
4. John Horgan Closes 10 Fish Farms!!!: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/12/john-horgan-closes-10-fish-farms.html.This is a blow by blow account of the hour long Global TV video of the Broughton announcement of taking some fish farms out of the water. This sounds good, but I'll believe it when it happens.
5. Ministers against Environment - Popham, Wilkinson, Horgan, Trudeau: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/12/ministers-against-environment-popham.html. Here is one where the Agriculture Ministers stand up and agree on an Aquaculture Act at the federal level. This is the kind of post that makes me doubtful that anything will happen in BC with fish farms being put on land. The point is, why make an Aqua Act, if you are serious about putting fish farms on land?
6. Good News Post - Links to On-land, Closed Containment, Papers, Studies, the on land news in the global press: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/links-to-on-land-closed-containment.html. There is now so much news in the global press on a daily basis that I decided to start a post.
7. Southern Resident Killer Whales - Sport Fishers and ENGOs: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/southern-resident-killer-whales-sport.html.
8. Toxic Sea Lice Chemicals - Norway is a Disaster Zone, Add Scotland: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/09/toxic-sea-lice-chemicals-norway-is.html. This one has had thousands and thousands of pageviews, particularly from Norway.
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If you are looking for a good book on the fish farm industry and our relation with salmon, pick up Martin Lee Mueller's book: Being Salmon Being Human, from Chelsea Press, VT, USA: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/being-salmon-being-human/.
This book should become a touchstone book much in the same way that Rachel Carson's A Silent Spring was in the 1960s, that started the environmental movement and lead to banning pesticides with chlorine and phorsphorus in them like DDT, PCBs, Dioxins, Furans and so on. Currently fish farms are using new chemicals (and a few old ones, most with chlorine/phosphorous) and claiming they are no problem. Read Mueller's book for a learned take on this issue, along with poetic passages on being salmon, being human - and why it matters that we retain our connection. Then read post 8 above on the Toxic Disaster in Norway.
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