Global Boom/Bust Salmon Farming Industry - Big Time Salmon Bust in Progress - Tasmania

The same problems that happen in one country willing to ruin its ocean to allow fish farms, claims another victim. Tasmania. This is something I predicted in a post two years ago, and had an ongoing exchange with a journalist from Tasmania. The solution is to take them out of the ocean and put them on land, as it always has been the solution.

Look back to the index: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/01/key-document-index-2015.html.

In the index, you will see a link to the previous index: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/10/index-to-wwwfishfarmnewsblogspotcom.html.

Too many fish in too small a space, the same unchecked growth in a pristine wilderness water, in this case, right next to a world heritage wilderness area, just like in BC's Clayoquot Sound.

Much global news in the more than 20 fish farm newsletters I receive each week has been devoted to the issue, claims and counterclaims. See my Bad News Bites post: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/07/news-bites-farmed-salmonseafood.html.

Look at items 241, 246 and 247.

Here is another one: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-31/salmon-farmer-says-tas-government-ignored-overstocking-warning/7978770. Frances Bender of Huon Aquaculture tells the problem, and though a salmon farmer, she has briefed the government several times in the last year, as she thinks a disaster is about to happen - low oxygen, temperature spikes and so on, and then a disaster of fish deaths. They have been lowering their salmon numbers.

Do note that she went from adding a few salmon to supplement their sheep and cattle business, and now Huon is an ASX-listed company with $230 million in revenue.

This is a good example of the Boom/Bust nature of salmon farming. There is so much money to be made that plans go wild, and several years later the entire industry collapses. Placentia Bay and Grieg Seafood in NL is a good example of one now in the Boom phase.

And it was only in March 2016 that Chile went through a huge collapse with 23 million farmed salmon dying from an algal bloom caused, in part by fish farm sewage, and dumping 75,000 metric tonnes of dead salmon only 50 miles offshore.

Earlier this year in BC, Cermaq lost lots of salmon in Clayoquot sound BC, to, an algal bloom, while just north in Nootka Sound, Grieg Seafood's 'craft raised' Skuna farmed salmon were dying of furunculosis. Then there are the ongoing serious problems in Scotland with AGD disease.

And the Morton Gopro video showed a randomly chosen farm, random pen with emaciated, obviously sick salmon. And we know that 80% of BC farmed salmon have PRV because the provincial health unit, GD Marty and Co., have the proof. Not to mention that I published it on Fish Farm News: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/10/prv-present-in-80.html.

Do read the Tasmanian news article, and that fish farms are bad news all over the world. They need to be on land.

August, 2016 - Most Popular Posts on Fish Farm News - Sept 1, 2016

I have decided to start a new document on this site. It will list the most popular posts as viewed by the global audience to this blog in the month just past.

For August, 2016, here are the most popular posts:

1. Norwegians, Canadians Reject In-ocean Fish Farms, 'An Ecological Trainwreck':   http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/07/norwegians-canadians-reject-in-ocean.html.

2. Finally, First Nations Tell Norwegian Fish Farms to get out of their Territory: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/finally-first-nations-tell-norwegian.html.

3. KEY DOCUMENT: 142 Mostly On-land Fish Farm Systems: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/01/key-document-142-mostly-on-land-closed.html. Note that the list is now up to 155 on-land systems, comprising almost 20,000 on-land fish farms around the globe. Don't let the Norwegians tell you it can't be done. That is counterfactual, as they know.

4.  Bad News Bites - you may be shocked by how much bad news there is in the fish farm/seafood industry. I receive more than 20 global fish farm/seafood newsletters per week, so I am up to the minute on fish farm bad news: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/07/news-bites-farmed-salmonseafood.html. More than one hundred bad news stories in one month. The link is there to the more than 600 bad news stories I found from July 2015 to July 2016.

5. Jack Mackerel - Fish Farm's Buffalo - Unsustainable Industry. Fish feed is getting scarce as the Norwegian-style fish farms and others have fished down world class stocks that should be going to feed third-world humans, not fish for first-world mouths: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/jack-mackerel-fish-farms-buffalo.html.

6. Post 2: Forage Fish - Fish Farm Feed Stats: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/post-2-forage-fish-fish-farm-feed-stats.html,

7. Watershed Watch - Cohen Commission - DFO, BC is Waiting for you to do Something. Are you there Dominic? Are you there Justin?:  http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/post-2-forage-fish-fish-farm-feed-stats.html.

Fish Farm Sewage - More than the Entire Human Population of Norway, Updated Jan 17, 2017

The sewage on the bottom of the ocean in Norway from fish farms is the equivalent of 17 million people: http://www.nrk.no/trondelag/far-torsk-som-har-beitet-pa-avforing-1.12638144.

As the population of Norway is only 8 Million people, that means fish farms put more sewage on the bottom of the ocean than 213% of the people in Norway, more than twice as much.

Looked at another way, Norway's human population would have to grow 9 million people more to equal the sewage under the fish farms.

But there is another way of looking at this. Sewage includes all the sewage released into the water column plus the remainder that ends up on the bottom. A way to calculate a conservative estimate is, at the accepted equivalent of 10 fish equal the sewage of 1 human, a conservative 1000 farms, and a conservative 500,000 fish per farm. The calculation is: 1000 X 500,000/10 = 50,000,000 humans.

In other words, the conservative estimate of the total sewage load from all the fish farms in Norway, is the equivalent of 50 million people, some 625% more than there are right now.

Note the article references 'researchers' who are not concerned. My response is: are they conflicted with fish farms? The fishermen say that fish eat the sewage and are so foul they would not eat them, or catch them to sell at market to humans.

Little wonder why those citizens who have to live with fish farms overwhelmingly reject them. You will recall the 110,000 British Columbians who signed a petition to stop expansion of fish farms in BC and get the farms out of the water. See: http://alexandramorton.typepad.com/alexandra_morton/2015/05/on-may-8-2010-i-helped-lead-the-final-steps-of-the-get-out-migration-a-6-day-walk-down-vancouver-island-to-victoria-th.html.

Global Aquaculture Loses One Third to One Half of all Production to Disease

I post once again the seminal work of Dr. Fred Kibenge on global losses for all of aquaculture: one third to one half, some $32 - $49 Billion.

The reason for giving you this link is that the OIE copy of it has been removed from the internet, presumably after the Canadian CFIA asked for his being de-accredited, and the OIE did so.

The link is: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EKNKFOjnazZcKaOMnYa2Hwek4b6tCnCaPY3B9htJYtE/present?slide=id.p92.

Control over the narrative to do with fish farming rests in the hands of government departments that have high budgets. The CFIA has an annual budget of $740 Million. It simply ignores narratives that don't agree with it.

I repost this link because, like the Cohen Commission - his entire website - was deleted by DFO and it only resurrected it because journalists and environmentalists complained so much that it brought back an archival version.

I suggest you take this list and keep it aside for the time when you are needing to have a reference for the disease problems of aquaculture.

Fish Farm Feed Tonnage Declines, May Level Out, Sort Of

One of the limits on the fish farm industry is the global supply of fish oil and meal. No food for open-net salmon farms, no farmed salmon.

In the past year, supply of feed has dropped: " Global production of fish meal and fish oil fell 11.5 percent and 7.5 percent respectively in 2014." "The production of fish meal fell to 4.1 million metric tons in 2014, while the amount of fish oil fell to 843,000 mt."

There is a real disparity between the growth and proposed growth of fish farms and the available feed for the fish. Read the article: It all depends on Peru.

See: http://www.intrafish.com/free_news/article1407285.ece.

The article suggests that the feed industry should level out - meaning feed all the farmed fish - in 2015, provided Peru's anchovy stocks hold up with enough mature fish. If not, the global feed supply will not feed all the farmed fish.

But if you go down the articles in the March 5, 2015 list, you will find that new species of farmed fish will require about 50% of fish meal/oil in their diets, meaning the global growth of farmed fish will climb dramatically.

New aquaculture species will drive demand. They include grouper, cobia, amberjack, and tunas.

“Furthermore, as aquaculture evolves and becomes more intensive and modern in the future, there will be more need for formulated feed and in turn need for more fish meal.”

The point is that fish feed had to branch out into other protein because the ocean’s supply of fish protein was limited. Soy, canola, chicken feathers, Antarctica’s supply of krill (almost the bottom of the food chain) – all have environmental issues associated with them. Fish farming has culpability in driving down some stocks, for example, jack mackerel in Chile. Norway has almost eliminated fishing for this very depleted stock, but Asian companies are still fishing it down.

Kim Jong-Un, On-land Fish Farmer, North Korea!

Surprise, surprise! Even North Korea, one of the least technically advanced nations on earth (only 1000 computers connected to the internet) has on-land, closed-containment fish farms.

The big dude himself can be seen looking down to the fish in the tank. Lovingly? Can’t say, but it has to be said: even the most technology-challenged of countries put fish farms on land where they belong. Even dictators with no sense of humour are doing it.

Marine Harvest, Cermaq, Grieg Seafood, it’s time to get out of the water and quit using the world’s pristine oceans as free, open sewers.

See: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2885133/So-kill-time-North-Korea-internet-goes-Kim-Jong-visits-fish-farm-country-s-web-access-cut-off.html. 


See my link for 70 fish farm systems, now 71, on land, comprising more than 8,000 on land fish farms around the world. There is no need anymore for the excessive environmental damage caused by in-ocean fish farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/01/key-document-34-mostly-on-land-closed.html. 

NB - Wild Atlantic Salmon Decline - Miramichi

In New Brunswick, wild salmon declines have occurred in many of its rivers. In the Miramichi, here is some information from the Atlantic Salmon Federation:

Of course, any salmon river is a valuable asset to the region through which it flows. In 2011, a Gardner Pinfold report (Economic Value of Wild Atlantic Salmon) estimated the total annual economic value for wild Atlantic salmon at $255 million, supporting over 3,800 full-time equivalent jobs. One of their four case study rivers was the Miramichi (the other three were the Exploits, Margaree and Grand Cascapedia), where they pegged annual spending related to wild Atlantic salmon at $20 million, supporting 637 full-time equivalent jobs.

See more at:http://asf.ca/voices-of-the-valley-in-winter-14-asj.html#sthash.VTx6x59d.dpuf. 

By October 15, only 198 grilse had passed through the Northwest Cassilis trapnet compared to 230 on the same date last year. For salmon, the numbers were worse, 83 compared to 196 in 2013. Salmon and grilse numbers at the Millerton on the Southwest Miramichi had recovered by October and 743 salmon passed through the Southwest’s indicator trapnet (466 on same date in 2013) with 568 grilse (versus 371, same date ’13).  

The numbers become ever more startling with a quick glance back through earlier years. Average counts at the Northwest Cassilis trapnet between 2001 and 2010 were in the 400 range for salmon and 1100 for grilse. This is in stark contrast to the 83 salmon and 198 grilse counted by the same time period in 2014. While the salmon counts at the Millerton trapnet on the Southwest are somewhat closer to the averages for the same time period, the grilse numbers, while up from 2013, are very depressed. From 2001-2010, average grilse counts at Millerton ranged from 1,935 (2006-2010) to 2,663 (2001-2005).

The trapnet numbers are not complete counts of what is in the river, but rather are partial counts that provide an indication of fish that are entering the Northwest and Southwest systems respectively.   - See more at: http://asf.ca/voices-of-the-valley-in-winter-14-asj.html#sthash.VTx6x59d.dpuf

The average number of salmon returns to the Miramichi River has declined rapidly from 82,000 annually in the 19902 to 53,000 in the first decade of this century, to 23,000 a year since 2011. Preliminary numbers from DFO indicate even further declines in 2014.

A Gardner Pinfold report estimated the toal economic value for wild Atlantic salmon in 2010 at $255 million, with the recreational fishery alone worth nearly $130 million, supporting nearly 4,000 full time equivalent jobs.

See more at: http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/24809/government-to-set-up-wild-salmon-decline-committee#sthash.rmhiBeCk.dpuf

In BC, in an average year, there are 100,000,000 salmon that return. This shows that wild Pacific salmon in BC, are in far larger numbers than Atlantic salmon on the east coast, that resemble more, in their habits and numbers, our BC steelhead. BC salmon are far more important to the province of BC than salmon in other jurisdictions. 

Study: On Land Fish Farm Systems Make More Money

Here is another article that shows that on-land closed recirculating fish farms make more money and shield the environment from sewage, disease, lice and the other problems associated with the old-tech in-ocean methods employed, particularly by the Norwegian companies, Marine Harvest, Cermq and Grieg Seafood.

Abstract

Research into the use of recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) addresses the question of how to achieve profitable production while consistently recycling water and nutrients with minimal fresh water demand and waste production. The RAS facilities require an adequate supply of fingerlings, and a facility for fingerling production in conjunction with each RAS can prevent disease transfer and ensure quality and continuous production. The time, space, and financial investment can be eliminated by hatching (purchased disease free ova) and rearing of fingerlings every 2-3 months. The present study evaluated (water quality assessment, feed utilization, production cycle duration) a simple low cost recirculating hatchery for salmonids as a safe and continuous source of fingerlings for further rearing in RAS. The tested recirculating hatchery enabled low cost efficient production on a small scale (at least 5 production cycles per year, > 63 000 fingerlings per each cycle), low fresh water demand (0.05 l.sec-1) with maintaining good rearing conditions, and environmental and zoohygiene safety. Such simple facilities can support the sustainability of inland aquaculture and strengthen the effort to deliver quality products with minimal operational and environmental costs.

See: http://omicsonline.org/open-access/a-simple-and-effective-recirculating-hatchery-for-salmonids-2155-9546-5-271.php?aid=31145.

See my link for 70 fish farm systems on land, comprising more than 8,000 on land fish farms around the world. There is no need anymore for the excessive environmental damage caused by in-ocean fish farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/01/key-document-34-mostly-on-land-closed.html. 

Some more text from the study:

The positive results obtained in a simple recirculating system call into question the reported need to use additional technologies for hatcheries such as UV treatment, ozone application, microsieve filtration, oxygenation, and aeration. The RHS was fully functional without such treatments, thus is more efficient with respect to initial investment as well as operating costs. Nevertheless, potential use of additional technologies in enhance the RHS should be discussed. Added aeration and oxygenation may increase the capacity of RHS, but benefits such as increased production and increased biofiltration rate are cancelled out by increased operating costs. Oxygen level and biofiltration efficacy were found to be sufficient in the current study. -

 See more at: http://www.thefishsite.com/articles/2001/a-simple-and-effective-recirculating-hatchery-for-salmonids#sthash.sdp4Ved9.dpuf.

Key Document: Irish Public Against Norwegian Style Fish Farms

The Irish public, like the public all over the world where Norwegian style in-ocean fish farms set up shop, criticize fish farms for the same problems that everyone else does: sea lice, diseases, fish escapes, chemical pollution, released sewage, damage to wild salmon and, in their case, sea trout and so on.

The point is that in-ocean fish farms are old-tech dinosaurs that need to be on land, in closed containment with recirculating systems, sewage capture and energy production along with hydroponics.

The Galway Bay and Bantry Bay issues have been long standing flash points in Ireland for many years. Read the text, as it is in keeping with other citizen complaint in Ireland:

Letter to the Editor, Inshore Ireland, Dec 2014 – Jan 2015 Issue

Dear Editor,

Please allow me space in your magazine to reply to the outdated policies on salmon farming by Donal Maguire and Benen Dallaghan of B.I. M in your August/September issue.

Donal Maguire is wrong to blame the anti-salmon farm lobby for the low output of Irish salmon farm production. According to Marine Institute records and other documents which we acquired under freedom of information there is approximately 32,000 tonnes licenced capacity and approximately 10 to 15,000 tonnes unlicensed capacity salmon farms operating all along our west coast. The truth of the matter is that these salmon farms were only able to produce less than 10,000 tonnes last year and 10, to 15,000 tonnes in previous years due to outbreaks of diseases such as Amoebic Gill Disease (AGD), Pancreas Disease and infestations of sea lice.If there is approximately 47,000 tonnes of licenced and unlicensed capacity already in existence and salmon farmers cant even reach a 1/3 of this capacity why in Gods name do BIM insists that we need another 15,000 tonne salmon farm in our beautiful iconic Galway Bay and another 5,000 tonnes each for Inis Bofin and Gola Island?

Contrary to BIM,s assertion that the Irish coast is ideal for salmon farming our sea temperature’s are now rising to approximately 21 degrees and according to weather experts they may rise another 2 degrees over the next 10 years, these high sea temperatures are ideal only for AGD and sea lice to multiply and for high moralities in farmed salmon.

AGD is now prevalent in nearly all salmon farms along the west coast (including BIM,s flagship Clare Island) and is costings salmon farmers millions of euro to treat their fish with fresh water which some of them have to take illegally (no planning permission) from rivers and lakes, yet in the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) compiled by BIM for the Galway Bay salmon farm there is no mention of AGD or where the operator is going to get water to treat anything up to 14.4 million farmed salmon (salmon farm capacity is 30,000 tonnes). This EIS  is now out of date and should be withdrawn.

BIM keep telling everyone that the Galway Bay salmon farm is a deep sea salmon farm. The dept of water at the Inverin Bank site is only 18 to 26 metres deep and the Inis Oirr site only 30 metres deep,this is hardly deep sea.

Benen Dallaghan says that ”The mass movement of water on these sites also serves to maintain the pristine nature of such offshore environments”. Mr Dallaghan cannot prove that statement to be fact as BIM themselves admit in the EIS (model limitations page 188) that there is no proper model to determine what will happen under a salmon farm until the salmon farm has been in place for a period of time.

The EIS is also out of date in relation to wave heights in Galway Bay as it states (page 165) and I quote ”It would be expected that significant wave heights would be below 1 metre for approximately 80% of time while significant wave heights in excess of 3 metres would occur during storm events only.” We now know that last winters storms produced waves of 9.7 metres and over in Galway Bay (MI data) which caused tens of millions of euro damage to property and infrastructure all around Galway Bay. If there had been a salmon farm in Galway Bay during these storms it would have been destroyed along with the salmon farm in Bantry Bay which had similar type cages to those proposed for Galway Bay. A previous salmon farm at the Inis Oirr site was destroyed by gales in the early 1990s after being in operation for a short time.

Donal Maguire says that ”One cannot have a tank reared organic salmon”. Why not? Surly a salmon reared in a closed containment on land system that didn’t need to be treated with pesticides to kill sea lice,didn’t need antibiotics to treat diseases and wouldn’t cause any harm to wild salmon or sea trout would be more organic than what is now being produced.

I believe the reason BIM do not want closed containment on land salmon farms is because the remit for these farms will go to some other Government Department other than BIM as they (BIM) are a SEA fisheries department and not a LAND fisheries department. BIM needs these sea cage salmon farms to justify their existence.

Minister Simon Coveney needs to bypass the outdated thinking of those in BIM and embrace the new technology that is out there in relation to RAS systems. Salmon farm systems that all stake holders would be happy with.

Yours sincerely,

Billy Smyth                                                                                                                            Chairman Galway Bay Against Salmon Cages,

Summary: Fish Farm Environmental Laws Damaged by DFO and Harper Government, Updated April 28, 2015

Gathered into one post here is all of what DFO and the Harper Government have done to weaken the laws in Canada and to allow fish farms to dump raw sewage, chemicals and other pollutants into public waters.

The major beneficiaries are the multi-national, multi-billion dollar Norwegian companies Marine Harvest, Cermaq and Grieg Seafood.

1.      Weakened the fish habitat regulations in the Fisheries Act. S-35 and S-36.

See: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/11/key-document-strictest-laws-in-world.html.

2.      Weakened the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act - 2012.

See: https://www.ecojustice.ca/files/ceaa-backgrounder-1/at_download/file.

3.      Weakened the science apparatus by firing scientists, and refusing to let them talk about their science in public. 90% of DFO's own scientists are against what DFO is doing, weakening laws and reducing science budgets. This includes weakening laws, letting scientists go and the new and even weaker aquaculture regulations. See:  http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/12/canada-strictest-fish-farm-laws-no-best.html.

4.  Weakened the law by allowing fish farms to take over dumping their pollutants into the sea. These are the new, weaker, Aquaculture regs: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/aquaculture/management-gestion/aar-raa-proposition-eng.htm.

5.      Weakened NAFTA oversight into fish farm damage to wild salmon. Specifically: That Canada violated its own laws by allowing fish farms to harm wild salmon stocks through the spread of parasites. Canada, the federal government, refused to allow the investigation.

The petition to NAFTA's Commission for Environmental Cooperation, was filed in February 2012 by the Centre for Biological Diversity, the Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society, the Kwikwasu'tinuxw Haxwa'mis First Nation and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisherman's Associations. The groups had asked for a fact- finding inquiry into whether Canada was failing to enforce its Fisheries Act by protecting British Columbia's wild salmon.

"This NAFTA process is supposed to shine light on whether environmental laws are being enforced, but the process has become increasingly politicized and it's clear Canada does not want the facts revealed about the damage to wild salmon from industrial fish farms," said Jeff Miller with the Center for Biological Diversity. See: http://www.kcet.org/news/redefine/rewild/commentary/could-canadian-fish-farms-harm-californias-wild-salmon.html.        
6.      Weakened Canada Marine Act. See: http://www.envirolawsmatter.ca/d_j_vu_again.  Bill C-43 allows the federal government to exempt ‘port’ lands from the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and the Species at Risk Act, and to delegate powers to any person, eliminating oversight.

7.      Weakened DFO Conservation and Protection enforcement. DFO enforcement budget and staff numbers in BC are vastly underfunded and understaffed with respect to the rest of Canada, and the salmon enhancement program budget is dumped into the across Canada C&P budget, thus it is only a bargaining chip, when budgets are rationalized annually.

During the Cohen Commission, for example, Conservation and Protection revealed that it was approved for 55 staff to deal with fish farms alone. It was told to take out all of northern BC saltwater and all freshwater hatcheries, and not to talk with the Province’s staff that had previously done the job prior to 2010.

The behind the scenes emails on this show a DFO as dysfunctional as everyone in BC thinks it is (do note most BC residents are on the side of BC DFO staff). Ultimately only 12 staff were received, only 21.8% of what was authorized, and one was sent to Port Hardy, making enforcement activities on fish farms completely ineffective in the view of C&P’s top staff.

One of its Funding and Operational Issues submissions (the shortfall total was $15.639 million plus $1.5 million for capital items) is hilarious if it were not so sad. There is only one boat for the whole province, and it is in disrepair. Here is the kicker: for rigid hull vessels, DFO did not authorize any fuel for the boats – a budget of only $200,000. Pretty much zero oversight for fish farm infractions.

Here is an example from the Cohen Commission document: “C&P was advised that fish farm compliance was nearly 100% and the need for enforcement would be low. After one of the first fish site visits… [the fish farm reported] one dead sea lion in their predator nets. C& P returned with an underwater camera and located 55 dead sea lions in the netting.”

8.      The Index for this Fish Farm News blog will take you to many posts on weakening fish farm laws in Canada. Note particularly the Nancy Greene Raine posts. See: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/10/index-to-wwwfishfarmnewsblogspotcom.html. 

9. Here is an April 2015 update on the weakened Regs that DFO Minister, Gail Shea is going to bring in, totally disregarding that residents who have to live with fish farms overwhelmingly want them out of the water, or they can go back to Norway: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1663476680547553&set=np.1430232327071432.100001711032000&type=1

Key Document - Norwegian Fish Farms Choose Advertising Not Coming On-land to Solve Their Problems

In France, consumers have decided they don't want to buy Norwegian farmed salmon from in-ocean net pens because it pollutes the ocean and causes environmental damage. But the billion Dollar Norwegian firms, like Marine Harvest, Cermaq and Grieg Seafood, persist in not coming out of the water into closed containment to solve the problem.

Instead, they want to advertise their way out of the problem, rather than solving it. See: http://www.undercurrentnews.com/2014/12/15/image-not-price-the-issue-as-french-salmon-market-sinks/. 

Norwegian salmon's reputation has contributed to falling sales to French shoppers in 2014, with total sales down 12% in volume in Europanel and Norwegian Seafood Council data. This is a drop from 59,000 metric tons in 2013 to 51,600 mt in 2014. In 2012 sales reached 64,000 mt. The value of salmon sold in France has fallen too, despite a 5% increase in prices from over 1.01 billion Euros to 929.38 million or 8%.

The high price for farmed salmon from in-ocean net-pens? Prices have increased by 5% since 2013 from 17.17 Euros/kg to 18.01 Euros/kg. Fish farms like to claim they are needed to feed a hungry world. This is obviously not true, because no hungry person can afford these prices. Only those in first world countries can, and they are voting against farmed salmon because they understand the environmental damage caused by fish farms.

Marine Harvest, advertise your way out of this: consumers will not buy your products once they have been educated on your environmental damage. Cermaq and Grieg Seafood, come out of the ocean and solve your problems today. 

Norway – Closed Containment Study

My list of 70 on-land, closed, recirculating fish farms, comprising more than 8000 actual fish farms, is at this link:  http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/10/65-on-land-fish-farm-systems-oct-20-2013.html

Even Norway is getting on the bandwagon of getting them out of the water: http://www.thefishsite.com/fishnews/24701/nofima-to-host-centre-for-aquaculture-research

Norway, where the environmentally damaging in-ocean fish farming of Atlantic salmon began, is looking at closed-containment. It pretty much deletes diseases, lice, high mortality and escape issues and makes more money by delivering fish more quickly.

As not having to pay for the sewage damage that in-ocean closed fish farms is so large a part of the costs not borne by in-ocean farms like Marine Harvest, Cermaq, and Grieg Seafoods today it is difficult to see whether or if ever the companies actually will come out of the water. They persistently refuse to come out of the water, and the highest cost they avoid is the sewage they release.

The commonly accepted comparison of fish with human sewage is that 10 fish equal the sewage of one human being. In Norway, Scotland, and BC Canada, the sewage cost avoided is equal to all the sewage put out by the entire population of humans.

Nevertheless, Nofima is one of 17 institutions chosen to become host for Centres for Research based innovation. “A considerable part of salmon production in the future will be carried out in closed-containment systems on land or in semi-closed containment systems in the sea.” Since so much mortality comes at smolting at 80 grams, the first benefit has shown that holding them in on-land closed systems to 250 grams past the time of smolting, lowers losses.

Their research phase is funded for 8 years at the present, so it provides another decade of time for fish farm companies to refuse to come out of the water. However, “the overall goal of the CtrlAQUA Centre is to develop the technological and biological innovations that can lead to closed-containment systems becoming a reliable and financially viable technology.”

Key Document: The strictest laws in the world? Not in Canada

NAFTA's Commission On Environmental Cooperation 'Dying A Slow Death': Ex-Director

See: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/11/07/nafta-environmental-watchdog-dying_n_6123730.html.

Previous posts on this blog regarding fish farms saying they operate under the strictest laws in the world can be found in the index to this site and include the posts to Nancy Greene Raine from earlier this year. The point is that Marine Harvest, Cermaq and Grieg Seafood, and others, don’t operate under the strictest environmental laws in Scotland, Norway, Chile and Canada and other nations. And, once the claim is made, they lobby behind the scenes for getting rid of the laws, as is happening in Canada.

See: https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1880129387856188740#editor/target=post;postID=890992371737194469;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=6;src=postname. 

These are the new aquaculture activities regulations that DFO wants to bring in: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/aquaculture/management-gestion/aar-raa-proposition-eng.htm. 

In Canada, in particular, the laws have been weakened for several years, including the Fisheries Act, the Canada Environmrntal Assessment Act, and now the NAFTA agreement council looking into complaints about the environmental damage of in-ocean fish farms has been neutered in Canada by the federal government.

"This institution [Commission on Environmental Cooperation] doesn't have the tools it needs to do anything effective," said Geoff Garver, who headed the organization's enforcement branch from 2000 to 2007 and served on its public advisory board until recently. "It's dying a slow death."”

The complaint against fish farms: "Canada has also been accused of harming wild salmon stocks by allowing viruses from fish farms to spread.”

In a letter to the Commission on Environmental Cooperation, the Environment Ministry said this about the salmon complaint: "We do not intend to engage in or recognize as valid ... any further consideration of this submission."

“Ecojustice has written the commission off, said Koehl. "Given how this has all played out over the last decade, we don't have any confidence in their petition process.””

So, in Canada, in addition to the fisheries and environment laws being substantially weakened with respect to fish farm pollution, diseases, chemicals and other issues, the federal government is bringing in ‘aquaculture activities regulations’ that allow the industry complete control over sewage, environmental damage and other discharges.

And, now, has refused to take action on fish farm sewage and diseases in the NAFTA panel that it set up.

Fish farms, despite claims to the contrary, don’t operate under the strictest environmental laws in Canada, or other countries, where, in particular, environmental damage has been so great in Norway where the companies come from they no longer have new areas to site farms, and in Chile, widely acknowledged to be the dirtiest fish farm country in the world, where, sadly, the pristine Patagonia region is being tapped for more farms. News reports that companies want the new leases because pollution and disease in other areas means they need totally new areas that have never been farmed where they can spread out into.

Fish farms want to be in BC because our coastline is fjords – which don’t flush – just like Norway where it is acknowledged that 7 of 10 lice chemicals no longer work, and the industry puts out more untreated sewage than the entire human population of 8 million people.

Key Document: Fish Farms Eliminate Jobs, Citizens Complain: Laws too Weak

I have pointed out in posts on this site that fish farms do not result in net new employment, but rather the opposite: they eliminate other jobs and replace some of them, for a net negative result.

The BC stats report on the economic effect of the fishing sector has useful stats on this point. You can find it here in the index to this blog: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/10/index-to-wwwfishfarmnewsblogspotcom.html.

The BC Stats multiplier number for the commercial fishing sector is 1700, as is the  entire aquaculture sector (fish farm employment is a only part of this sector's employment). But the commercial sector has lost 1700 jobs in the time fish farms have been in BC, strongly suggesting that fish farms don't result in new jobs at all, but just replace some of the jobs they eliminate. The reference is in this document: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/02/sport-fishing-how-we-tack-up-feb-6-2013.html

Since fish farms set up in BC, 50% of wild salmon have been lost, little wonder why the commercial sector has been in decline. See: See: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/01/fish-farms-kill-more-than-50-of-wild.html.

This pattern prevails around the world. News just in from Ireland, in the Irish Examiner: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/pesticides-threaten-shellfish-industry-292007.html.

Citizens in Bantry Bay are very angry with fish farms, as citizens are in many countries of the world.

"With one of the world’s biggest fish farm companies Marine Harvest planning to develop a new facility at Shot Head in Bantry Bay, Mr O’Donovan said: “This could result in a significant loss of jobs, given 30 fishermen also currently work Bantry Bay for crustaceans such as shrimp, prawns, lobster and crab. [ The issue is the chemicals they use, like cypermethrin, against the law in Canada with Cooke Aquaculture being done for using it illegally, killing lobsters and other crustaceans].

“The Shot Head salmon farm, in the meantime, would only create two full-time positions."

So lose 30 replace with 2. Hmm.

The article goes on:

“We fully back the researchers call for international quality standards to be drawn up. Irish environmental quality standards, differ from those in the UK. The standard set for teflubenzuron allows five times the residual quantity in our waters, and we have no standard at all for diflubenzuron.

“These were the two most problematic pesticides in this study and both are authorised for use in Irish salmon farms. But, to make matters worse, to date the Department of Agriculture has refused to release data on emissions of these pesticides in Irish salmon farms. ”

So the laws to do with chemicals is weak in Ireland, and they differ from the UK. How do fish farms then claim they operate under the strictest laws in the world? In the past year, they have said this in Scotland, Canada, Norway and Chile. Then as index articles note, they argue for weakening the laws to make business viable. 

Hmm. What about those 30 crab fishermen?

The article goes on: "The samples were tested by researchers for an environmental research organisation, Norwegian Institute for Water Research, on some of the commonly used fish farm pesticides — such as diflubenzuron, teflubenzuron, emamectin benzoate, cypermethrin, and delta-methrin.

As Norway has no environmental quality standards (EQS) system, the data was compared to the thresholds set in the UK. [emphasis added by DC Reid]

For teflubenzuron in sediment, the EQS was exceeded in 67% of the samples; and levels of diflubenzuron in water exceeded the EQS in 40% of samples collected."

Note that Norway has no chemical quality standards. That means it does not have the strongest laws in the world. And in Canada cypermethrin is against the law to use because it kills moutling animals, for example, lobsters. And we can add Ireland to the list of 'weak' lawed states.

In the Atlantic province of Canada though, Cooke Aquaculture was taken to court for using this chemical - which is against the law - for using it for lice for two years. They faced up to 99 years in jail and millions in fines. Cooke decided to take a closer look at the court documents, the situation went out of the public sphere, and months later, Cooke was given $25 million by the provincial government.

So, this is weak laws, 'alleged' illegal activities, putting fishermen out of work, and receiving money for doing so. Hmm.

The article goes on:

"Researchers also note that: “A crude assessment of the concentrations detected in the shrimp collected from one location and the levels at which chronic effects are seen in shrimp would suggest that there is a potential risk to shrimp. It would also be reasonable to extrapolate this to any species that undergoes moulting during its life cycle.”

Alec O’Donovan, secretary of Save Bantry Bay — an organisation opposed to a massive fish farm in the region — said the researchers’ warnings should be heeded.

“The value of shellfish landed in Bantry Bay was €646,590 in 2009, and the industry continues to support a number of local jobs,” said Mr O’Donovan.

“It is ludicrous to put this at risk by adding more salmon farms and greater pesticide emissions that have the potential to wipe out stocks.”"

Just like in BC where the fish farm industry threatens, and eliminates other jobs, it does the same in Ireland. And government supports fish farms. Oh and seven out of ten lice chemicals in Norway no longer work, they have so many lice and have used the chemicals so many times.

And the federal government in Canada through DFO, wants to bring in weaker laws that allow fish farms to put whatever chemicals in pristine BC waters that they want? Hmm.

Fish farms claim: "Fish farms operate under the strictest laws in the world." Answer: I don't think so.

Norway Polluted with Farmed Salmon - 2014

On the eve of DFO and the federal government enacting an aquaculture activities act here in BC which would allow the Norwegian fish farms m to dump anything in our pristine ocean, the country where the fish farms are from, Norway, 2014 has been a year of great environmental degradation. If the same companies operate here, they will pollute BC the same way. Read on.

Here is an article from earlier this year in Norway on the fish farm issues of Marine Harvest, Cermaq (now Mitsubishi), Grieg Seafood, et al:

A heralded disaster "Billions (NOK) rolls into salmon farming. Politicians clap excitedly.

It covers up a profound environmental crisis, writes John O. Egeland. Published 4 April 2014.

The aquaculture industry trembles with success. Last year Norway exported salmon worth 40 billion (NOK). The average price of fresh salmon increased by an incredible 44 percent. The owners are counting
the money and the government will have more of the same.

It will be more farms and more fish allowed in each cage. Behind the national parade, the industry is facing the worst. Where the list of issues is long and painful: Escapes and genetic pollution, diseases and parasites,
discharge of sewage and pollutants, large land use in the fjords, feed resources that are not sustainable and a
steadily increasing concentration of ownership.

If industry and government clean up, it's only a matter of time before this toxic cocktail has a devastating effect. Both on sea life, fjords, salmon rivers and the Norwegian economy. Fisheries Minister Elisabeth Aspaker (H) "rejoices with the seafood adventure," wrote the  papers that export figures for 2013 were
presented.
.
Yet lice has made more progress than exports. According  to the industry's own figures, it costs salmon farmers around two million (NOK) for every pound they produce. Today salmon are treated at least three times a year for lice, which is triple since 2007. What is worse, the delousing agents are becoming less effective and many of them pollute, often for long periods.

It is noted that there is resistance in seven out of ten products used against lice. Marketing Director for the feed company EWOS has  stated that "we are about to run out of remedies against lice."

The following diseases in farmed salmon are numerous and complex. Such bacterial and viral diseases can in many cases lead to the infection of wild fish. A study conducted by the Institute of Marine Research shows that escapees can carry viral diseases SAV and PRV to the spawning grounds in rivers. It is also shown that
diseases from aquaculture can be transferred between different populations and species.

The research has come a long way in these areas, which in itself poses a danger. The development still has a clear tendency:        

Farming operations seem  to be creating more aggressive and more harmful disease organisms than those normally found in nature. The diseases are therefore no internal problem for the industry, but a threat to the ecosytems entire biodiversity. Escapes help to spread diseases and lice, and to the genetic destruction of wild salmon.

In its latest report on the risks of farming, says IMR that the real numbers of escapees is several times higher than  those farmers report. Moreover a large part of the escaped fish are the very young fish (fry). Probably the number of escapes is higher than the estimate of 1.5 million fish. Surveys in various rivers show that cross breeding with salmon farming varies from slightly more than two percent  to nearly fifty  percent.

An increasing problem is the pollution and land use in the fjords. [Note that BC's coastline is almost all long fjords] The pollution has many sources: Sewage from fish, chemicals and toxins from debugging, waste feed and impregnation (copper). Just the sewage volume of feces is the same as from several million people. This naturally affects the environment,  particularly in fjords where the replacement of water is poor.

Increasingly, come  reports from local fishermen report that good fishing spots are destroyed, or that the fish they do catch have lousy quality. Many places [in Norway] now have growing local opposition to the salmon farms. Conservative mayor Laila Davidsen in Alta stated that  the disadvantages are so great that the municipality does not want new farming operations.

The lack of sustainability in the industry has not been solved, even though there are less fish used in the fish feed. The aquaculture industry uses twice as much fish as it produces, and therefore contributes to reducing world food production. As is the concentration of ownership concentrates. The political ambitions of several governments for local ownership and control have not been fulfilled.

The ten largest aquaculture operators own about 70 percent of the approximately one thousand salmon  licenses. [In BC the three big Norwegian companies own mor than 90% of the industry]  The list of threats is long, but the most dangerous are still the owners, authorities and politicians capitulation to each other. No one will stop the party and take action about tomorrow.

The  Salmon adventure has been an after party that is out of control."

http://m.db.no/2014/04/04/kultur/meninger/hovedkommentar/kommentar/innenriksp
olitikk/32649871/?www=1

Index to www.fishfarmnews.blogspot.com, Updated Jan 12, 2016

Three years ago I knew little about global farming of Atlantic salmon. I thought the story was: jobs, revenue and feeding a hungry world. Then I read a Science journal article dated January 9, 2004 by Hites et al from Albany University of New York. It detailed the persistent organic pollutants (POPs), PCBs, dioxins and other chemicals found in farmed salmon, and that cause, among other things, cancer.

Then I read an article by David Miller of Bath University, UK on how the fish farm industry had systematically attacked the article’s, and scientists’ credibility and ultimately ‘proven’ that Scotland’s farmed salmon were sustainable and organic. The problem was that Miler’s article read like a Hollywood thriller: https://www.academia.edu/2939514/Spinning_farmed_salmon.

Since reading it I have questioned everything fish farms say. Marine Harvest, Cermaq, Grieg Seafood, 90% of the BC industry, are all from Norway. I realized the threat their diseases pose to wild Pacific salmonids, and that BC is the first place where contact with the Pacific species has happened. The obvious solution: putting fish farms on land, has been persistently refused by the global Norwegian companies, Marine Harvest in 22 countries, for example.

To do my small part in standing for wild Pacific salmon, I started the blog: www.fishfarmnews.blogspot.com. I had no idea it would become a global success, and, without any advertising, or anything other than putting up text, I have been stunned it has received 85,000 page views, with an acceleration to another 50,000 in the next year likely. To my surprise, I have received email from all continents. Recently a newspaper in Tasmania asked me for advice on how to deal with the industry moving there.

I have just placed all posts in an index so anyone interested has reference to all posts in one place. I go back and update posts, so even ones from three years ago can contain new information. Without doubt the post on the 69 Closed-Containment, On-land fish Farm Systems I have found around the world, and that comprise more than 8,000 actual farms, is far and away the most viewed post on the site. The world wants fish farms out of the ocean.

The purpose of the blog is to put up links to the science so anyone can read it and form their own opinions. I have read 20,000 pages of fish farm environmental damage science in the past three years, and often read 100 pages of fish farm news each week. There are times when my forecasts of global farmed fish prices and shares is more accurate than the brokers in Oslo and New York who get paid to do what I do for free.

Any reader who wants to look into, say, the science of on-land, closed, recirculating fish farms can get there from links on the site. One link is to a symposium held in Shepherdstown, Virginia in Sept 2013. There are more than 50 presentations at this link and will keep you reading for days. They are fascinating: http://tidescanada.org/salmon/aquaculture-innovation-workshops-and-reports/.

Of great humour, Marine Harvest, Cermaq (now Mitsubishi?) and Grieg Seafood, who are unwilling to give their real names in my list of followers, follow my site closely and obviously read everything the second I post it; this is because almost 12,000 page views are from Norway; 1 in 7.

Currently DFO is rewriting the aquaculture laws to allow fish farms to release anything they want from their farms into our oceans: chemicals, anti-fouling, diseases and sewage. My estimate of the last item is $10.4 Billion that we, taxpayers, in essence pay for. While this is bad, the BC industry could well be toast as its own parents companies in Norway successfully lobbied for the USA to remove a 26% tariff on their products – the US is the only real market of BC farmed fish, as in 85%, because Canadians won’t eat it. Chile, just back from the brink in 2008, losing a quarter of a billion fish to ISA disease, is at peak production and it goes into the States, too. In addition, Marine Harvest recently floated a bond in New York, and will be setting up in the USA soon. In other words, the BC industry may well be sacrificed by its own parent companies. Not a legal issue, simply economics.

Here is the link to the index: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/10/index-to-wwwfishfarmnewsblogspotcom.html. 

In closing, Hites et al have gone on to publish several articles over the intervening decade about the chemical pollutants in farmed fish. And the big story in Norway the past year is their scientists and doctors telling consumers not to eat farmed salmon because of the health issues to do with eating those chemicals.

2014 Posts

*Atlantic/Wild Pacific Salmon Crosses – eggs and milt. http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/10/atlanticwild-pacific-salmon-crosses.html.
*$93 Million for Diseased Dead Fish: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/93-million-for-diseased-fish.html. Taxpayer money paid to fish farms for diseased, dead fish.

*Conflict of Interest Continues, DFO back Farmed Salmon, Not Wild Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/conflict-of-interest-continues-dfo.html.

*Fish Sales Fraud in Europe and the United States: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/fish-sales-fraud-in-europe-and-usa.html.

*Key Document – More Fat In Farmed Salmon than in Pizza: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/key-document-more-fat-in-farmed-salmon.html.

*Sprinting Fraser Sockeye Die – New Research: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/08/sprinting-fraser-sockeye-die-new.html.

*Escaped Farmed Salmon/Trout in Norway: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/08/escaped-farmed-salmontrout-in-norway.html.

*Global Fish Farm Environmental Degradation – The Third World: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/08/global-fish-farm-environmental.html.

*NZ Talley Says Only Future for Farmed Fish is On-land: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/08/nz-tally-says-only-future-for-farmed.html.

*ISA in Canada – 2013, 2014: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/07/isa-in-canada-2013-2014.html.

*New Aquaculture Regulations in Canada – Very Sad for Wild Pacific Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/07/new-aquaculture-regulations-in-canada.html.

*Key Document – Kuterra – Land Based Farmed Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/kuterra-land-based-farmed-salmon.html.

*DFO and Nancy Greene Want Fish Farms in BC? We Don’t Want Them In Our Ocean: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/dfo-and-nancy-greene-fish-farms-in-bc.html.

*Consumers Will Only Buy Closed-Containment Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/06/consumers-will-only-buy-closed.html.

*Weakening the ‘Strictest’ Fish Farm Laws in the World: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/weakenng-strictest-fish-farm-laws-in.html.

*ISA – New Infections – Norway, Chile: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/isa-new-infections-norway-chile.html.

*Nancy Greene Raine and Federal Senators – Please Support Wild BC Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/05/nancy-greene-raine-and-federal-senators.html.

*Nancy Greene Raine – Wants Fish Farms? What About Wild BC Salmon?: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/04/nancy-greene-raine-fish-farms-what.html.

*Fish Farm Sewage – DFO Expansions Cost You Money: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/03/fish-farm-sewage-dfo-expansions-cost.html.

*Fish Farm Sewage – Causes Algal Blooms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/fish-farm-sewage-staggering-cause-algal.html.

*Key Document – Taxpayer Money For Diseased Dead Fish:

*Fish Farm Diseases – ISA in Norway and Etc.: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/fish-farm-diseases-isa-in-norway-and-etc.html.

*Key Document – Taxpayer Money for Diseased Dead Fish: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/key-document-taxpayer-money-for.html.

*ISA Confirmation: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/01/isa-confirmation.html.

*Key Document: Slaughter Payments to Fish Farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2014/01/dey-document-slaughter-payments-to-fish.html.

2013 Posts

*Most Stringent Fish Farm Laws in the World – Not: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/most-stringent-fish-farm-laws-in-world.html.

*Sea Lice Kill 34% of Wild Salmon Smolts – Ireland – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/sea-lice-kill-34-of-wild-salmon-smolts.html.

*Chile: Millions of Escaped Farmed Salmon – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/chile-millions-of-escaped-farmed-salmon.html.

*Harper Government Dismantling Canadian Government Science Resources – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/harper-government-dismantling-canadian.html.

*Key Document – Cohen Commission Website, Updated on ISA, Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/key-document-cohen-commission-website.html.

*DFO Aquaculture Licencing: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/dfo-aquaculture-licencing-posted.html.

*Mainstream – Slaughtered Fish Money, Clayoquot Sound – Updated – Davie Miller Articles: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/12/mainstream-slaughtered-fish-money.html.

*Fish Farm Companies Make Taxpayer Money from Diseased Fish – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/11/fish-farm-companies-make-taxpayer-money.html.

*Key Document – Land-Based Closed-Containment Fish Farm Science – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/11/key-document-land-based-closed.html.

*IPN – Fish Farms Cause Disease: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/10/ipn-fish-farms-cause-disease-oct-31-2013.html.

*Cohen Commission – One Year Later: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/10/cohen-commission-report-one-year-later.html.

*65 On-land Fish Farm Systems: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/10/65-on-land-fish-farm-systems-oct-20-2013.html.

*Cermaq Mainstream Owned by Norwegian Public – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/09/cermaq-mainstream-owned-by-norwegian.html.

*Critique: Mary Ellen Walling Letter to Victoria Times – Kibenge: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/08/critique-mary-ellen-walling-letter-to.html.

*Key Document – Slaughtered, Diseased Fish Farm Salmon Compensation with Taxpayer Dollars: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/06/key-document-slaughtered-diseased-fish.html.

*Norwegians Won’t Eat Farmed Salmon – that Means Marine Harvest, Cermaq Mainstream, *Grieg Seafood and Others: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/06/norwegians-wont-eat-farmed-salmon-that.html.

*CFIA Can’t Find Disease – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/06/cfia-cant-find-disease-updated-jume-18.html.

*Fish Farm Salmon High in Toxic Chemicals: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/06/fish-farm-salmon-high-in-toxic-chemicals.html.

*Morton and Eco-Justice Taking DFO to Court Marine Harvest to Court Over PRV Transferred To the Pacific Ocean: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/05/morton-and-ecojustice-take-keith.html.

*64 On-land Fish Farm Systems, Comprising more than 8,100 On-land Fish Farms Around the World – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/04/63-on-land-fish-farm-systems-comprising.html.

*ISA in BC Salmon – DFO States the Opposite of the Truth: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/04/isa-in-bc-salmon-dfo-states-opposite-of.html.

*Salmon Confidential – Debunking Fish Farm Claims: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/03/salmon-confidential-debunking-fish-farm.html.  

*Global Fish Farm Diseases – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/03/global-fish-farm-diseases-mar-3-2013.html.

*Key Document - Sport Fishing – How We Stack Up - Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/02/sport-fishing-how-we-tack-up-feb-6-2013.html.

*Fish Farms Kill More Than 50% of Wild Salmon – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2013/01/fish-farms-kill-more-than-50-of-wild.html.

2012 Posts

*Key Document - DFO Refuses to Admit ISA Virus in BC Wild Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/12/dfo-refuses-to-admit-isa-virus-is-in-bc.html.

*Move Fish Farms out of Clayoquot Sound to Save Wild Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/11/move-fish-farms-out-of-clayoquot-sound.html.

*Cohen Commission Report Released: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/10/cohen-commission-report-released-oct-31.html.

*Salmon Farm Activist Acquitted of Defamation: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/10/salmon-farm-activist-acquitted-of.html.

*Don Staniford Acquitted of Defaming Mainstream Canada: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/09/don-staniford-acquitted-of-defaming.html.

*Fish Farms Kill Seals and Sea Lions Around the World: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/09/fish-farms-kill-seals-and-sea-lions.html.

*Key Document – Fish Farms Damage Ocean Bottoms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/07/key-document-fish-farms-damage-ocean.html.

*Key Document – Fish Farm Diseases that Infect Humans: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/07/key-document-farmed-salmon-diseases.html.

*BAP Awards Not Awards – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/07/bap-awards-not-awards-july-4-2012.html.

*“Red Alert” – Elena Edwards Note to DFO: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/07/red-alert-elena-edwards-note-to-dfo.html.

*Key Document: BC Conservative Members Who Voted Against Wild BC Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/06/key-document-bc-conservative-members_23.html.

*GAPI Report – Aquaculture Awards Not Environmentally Justifiable: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/06/gapi-report-aquaculture-awards-not.html.

*IHN in BC Salmon Farms – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/05/ihn-in-bc-salmon-farms-updated-may-27.html.

*Key Links: Fish Farm Share Prices and Financial Information – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/05/key-links-fish-farm-share-prices-and.html.

*Fish Farms Infect Wild BC Salmon - Kibenge:  http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/05/fish-farms-infect-wild-bc-salmon-may-13.html.

*Harper’s EU Trade Agreement: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/04/harpers-eu-trade-agreement.html.

*Norway – Wild Salmon Numbers: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/04/norway-wild-salmon-numbers.html.

*CFIA – Double Standard on ISA: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/04/cfia-double-standard-on-isa.html.

*Key Document – Low Dose Hormones Lead to Worse Health Problems: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/04/key-document-low-dose-hormones-lead-to.html.

*Lice in Norway/LICE in BC: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/04/lice-in-norwaylice-in-bc-april-13-2012.html.

*More ISA in BC: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/04/more-i.html.

*Google: Consumers Don’t Buy Farmed Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/03/google-consumers-dont-buy-farmed-salmon.html.

*Key Document: Agrimarine Losses – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/03/key-document-agrimarine-losses.html.

*Key Document – Farmed Fish Prices Will Tank in 2012 – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/03/key-document-farmed-fish-prices-will.html.

*Key Document – EU Welfare Platform: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/03/key-document-eu-welfare-platform-mar-17.html.

*Key Document: CFIA Testing of ISA in BC: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/02/key-document-cfia-testing-of-isa-in-bc.html.

*2012 In Review – Chile and Norway at Odds: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/02/2012-in-review-chile-and-norway-at-odds.html.

*Key Document: Royal Society of Canada – DFO Failing Canada’s Oceans: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/02/key-document-royal-society-of-canada.html.

*Critique of Fish Farm Advertisement in: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/02/go-look-at-fish-farm-advertisement-that.html.

*HSMI – A New Viral Infection of Farmed Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/02/hsmi.html.

*Key Document – 69 Mostly On-land, Closed Containment, Fish Farm Systems – More than 8,100 actual farms – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/01/key-document-34-mostly-on-land-closed.html.

*Key Fish Farm Statistics – Keith Ashfield, Jan 11, 2012 News Release: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/01/keith-ashfield-jan-11-2012-news-release.html.

*ISA – Deficiencies in BC Testing System, DFO and CFIA: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/01/isa-deficiencies-in-bc-testing-system.html.

*Alaska Pink Salmon Ocean Ranching: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2012/01/alaska-ocean-ranching-pink-problem.html.

2011 Posts

*Unspinning Fish Farm Spin: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/12/unspinning-fish-farm-spin-dec-27-2011.html.

*Key Document – PCR Testing by BC Government, CFIA: A Crituque on Infections Salmon Anemia Virus Detection Capabilities of the Canadian Fish Health Protection Regulations – SA Goldes, MSC, 2011: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/12/key-document-pcr-testing-by-bc.html.

*Key Documents – OIE ISA Testing Manual, Cohen Commission Hearings, Dec 15, 16, 19,, 2011 – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/12/key-documents-oie-isa-testing-manual.html.

*Key Documents – Organic Seafood Does Not Include Farmed Atlantic Samon – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/12/key-documents-organic-seafood-does-not.html.

*ISA Testing for Salmon: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/12/isa-testing-for-salmon.html.

*Key BC News – ISA Disease in BC: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/11/key-bc-news-isa-disease-in-bc-nov-28.html.

*Key Documents – High Levels of PCBs, POPs and other Chemicals in Farmed Fish – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/11/key-documents-levels-of-pcbs-pops-and.html.

*ISA Breaks Out in Chile Again – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/11/isa-breaks-out-in-chile-again-nov-3.html.

*Fish Farm Diseases Pass Genes to Human Diseases: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/11/fish-farm-diseases-passed-to-humans-nov.html.

*Minister Ashfield Denies BC ISA: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/11/minister-ashfield-denies-isa-nov-9-2011.html.

*ISA Current Press – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/11/isa-current-press.html.

*Chile Wants Compensation from Norway and Norwegian Fish Farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/11/chile-wants-compensation-from-norway.html.

*Fish Farm Deaths – 29 Million Dead Fish: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/11/fish-farm-fish-deaths-in-norway.html.

*Closed, On-land Fish Farm Systems – Post Being Developed – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/closed-system-studies-post-being.html.

*Fish Farm Myths – A Growing List – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/fish-farm-myths-growing-list.html.

*Key Links – Fish Farm Share Prices and Financial Information – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/key-links-fish-farm-share-prices-and.html.

*Key Document – Fish Farm Tactics: Spinwatch.org – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/key-document-fish-farm-tactics.html.

*Key Links – Fish Farm News and Science: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/links-to-fish-farm-news-and-science.html.

*Introductory List of Fish Farm Issues: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/introductory-list-of-fish-farm-issues.html.

*Key Documents – ISA Infections World Wide Since 1984 – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/isa-infections-world-wide-sine-1984.html.

*ISA in BC – Actions Needed Now: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/isa-in-bc-actions-needed-now.html.

*ISA Confirmed in BC – Salmon Extinction Possible: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/isa-confirmed-in-bc-salmon-extinction.html.

**Cohen Commission Testimony – Dr. Kristi Miller – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/cohen-commission-testimony-dr-kristi.html.

*Global Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA): http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/global-infectious-salmon-anemia-isa-in.html.

*Purpose of Fish Farm News and Science: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/purpose-of-fish-farm-news-and-science.html.

*Marine Mammals Killed by Fish Farms in BC – Updated: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/marine-mammals-killed-by-fish-farms-in.html.