These are the most popular posts by readers of this blog in April:
1. Fish Farms an Essential Service - In BC? I Think Not: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/fish-farms-essential-service-in-bc-i.html. This post points out to John Horgan, et al that it is silly to call fish farms an essential service. It is an affront to society to claim this, so I quickly go through the half dozen most egregious problems with these 'floating pig farms' as Daniel Pauly calls them.
2. MOST POPULAR POSTS - March 2020: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/04/most-popular-posts-march-2020.html.
3. 315 On-land Fish Farm Systems and 20,000 around the World: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. This is the perennial, all-time favourite post on this site. People all around the world know that on-land fish farms have taken over from in-water ones. Thank goodness. Now we want our politicians to get the message and take environmentally damaging fish farms out of the ocean.
4. Most Popular Posts - March 2020: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/04/most-popular-posts-march-2020.html
5. Sport Fishing - How we Stack Up - BC Stats Report: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2013/02/sport-fishing-how-we-tack-up-feb-6-2013.html. The reality is that the sport sector is miles beyond fish farms that are still in the water.
6. BAD NEWS BITES - heading to 6000 problems with in-ocean fish farms: http://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/02/bad-news-bites-post-14-5500-problems.html.
Wednesday, 6 May 2020
Friday, 3 April 2020
MOST POPULAR POSTS - MARCH, 2020
These are the most viewed posts on Fish Farm News And Science in March, 2020:
1. Getting Fish Farms Out of the Water and Set Up on Land: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/getting-fish-farms-out-of-ocean-and-set.html.
2. BAD NEWS BITES - moving from 5500 problems in the global fish farm/seafood industry to 6,000: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/02/bad-news-bites-post-14-5500-problems.html. If you can believe it - I can't believe it - I have found almost 6000 problems in 3 years.
3. Fish Farms an Essential Service - in BC? I Think Not: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/fish-farms-essential-service-in-bc-i.html. Send an email to John Horgan and Mike Farnworth not to spend any of your tax money on fish farms.
4. Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmon Says 'Status of Salmon in Norway' 2018 - https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/04/fish-farms-kill-wild-salmonids-says.html. They say farmed fish kill 50% of wild fish where they are located.
5. 310 On-land Fish Farm Systems and 20,000 around the world: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. This is the all time record post on this site, meaning the world gets it that fish farms should be taken out of the ocean and set up on-land.
6. BAD NEWS BITES - a second of my BAD NEWS posts makes the big time this month: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/03/bad-news-bites.html.
7. MOST POPULAR POSTS Feb, 2020: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/most-popular-posts-feb-2020.html. Go to the MOST POPULAR POSTS for Feb, 2020 and pick a story or two to read.
1. Getting Fish Farms Out of the Water and Set Up on Land: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/getting-fish-farms-out-of-ocean-and-set.html.
2. BAD NEWS BITES - moving from 5500 problems in the global fish farm/seafood industry to 6,000: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/02/bad-news-bites-post-14-5500-problems.html. If you can believe it - I can't believe it - I have found almost 6000 problems in 3 years.
3. Fish Farms an Essential Service - in BC? I Think Not: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/fish-farms-essential-service-in-bc-i.html. Send an email to John Horgan and Mike Farnworth not to spend any of your tax money on fish farms.
4. Fish Farms Kill Wild Salmon Says 'Status of Salmon in Norway' 2018 - https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2019/04/fish-farms-kill-wild-salmonids-says.html. They say farmed fish kill 50% of wild fish where they are located.
5. 310 On-land Fish Farm Systems and 20,000 around the world: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html. This is the all time record post on this site, meaning the world gets it that fish farms should be taken out of the ocean and set up on-land.
6. BAD NEWS BITES - a second of my BAD NEWS posts makes the big time this month: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2018/03/bad-news-bites.html.
7. MOST POPULAR POSTS Feb, 2020: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2020/03/most-popular-posts-feb-2020.html. Go to the MOST POPULAR POSTS for Feb, 2020 and pick a story or two to read.
Sunday, 29 March 2020
Fish Farms an Essential Service - in BC? I Think Not
According to Salmon Business news outlet, Mike Farnworth and John Horgan, in the background, have just declared fish farms an essential service in BC.
You have to be kidding. What happened to your putting them on land, your promises to the BC public that that is where they are heading? We sure don't want you giving them any of our tax money, for what Daniel Pauly calls: 'floating pig farms.'
Here are some of the downsides that can be avoided by keeping your promises, and putting them on land:
Wild Salmon are as Important to BC as French is to Quebec. And we hate in-ocean fish farms. We want them on land.
See: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-residents-consider-salmon-a-cultural-touchstone-survey-finds/article1998476.
Huge Sewage Cost: $10.4B to $31.2B. Yes, that is billions. They put out more sewage than all the people in BC. And these two figures are the conservative end of the estimates. The point is that they will never bring in enough money to offset this free rider problem, as economists call it.
Lost Licence revenue, is billions of dollars, too. Your licence cost is only $5000 compared with the $32- to $40-M per licence in Norway because they hate the biological degradation of in-ocean. An-onland licence is free. BC's loss right now is $3.8- to 4.8-B. That's how bad it is.
See: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.
Send an email:
John Horgan: premier@gov.bc.ca
Mike Farnworth: mike.farnworth.mla@leg.bc.ca
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Here is another one on lack of jobs: 334. Jobs, Economic Effects Hugely Over-estimated: Scotland, report: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2020/04/27/scottish-govt-urged-to-rethink-support-for-increased-salmon-farm-production/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=57d8b85f80-Europe_briefing_Apr_27_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-57d8b85f80-92426209.
You have to be kidding. What happened to your putting them on land, your promises to the BC public that that is where they are heading? We sure don't want you giving them any of our tax money, for what Daniel Pauly calls: 'floating pig farms.'
Here are some of the downsides that can be avoided by keeping your promises, and putting them on land:
Wild Salmon are as Important to BC as French is to Quebec. And we hate in-ocean fish farms. We want them on land.
See: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/bc-residents-consider-salmon-a-cultural-touchstone-survey-finds/article1998476.
Huge Sewage Cost: $10.4B to $31.2B. Yes, that is billions. They put out more sewage than all the people in BC. And these two figures are the conservative end of the estimates. The point is that they will never bring in enough money to offset this free rider problem, as economists call it.
Jobs are low. The industry does not deserve the attention it gets: Your own BC Stats put employment at 1800. And actual in 2016, I calculated at 825. It really is that low, and the revenue of only $775M goes back to Norway to shareholders. Employment has actually dropped 5.3% over the last twenty years. And Milewski shows that jobs will drop 80% when Mowi et al bring their automation from Norway to BC.
Lost Licence revenue, is billions of dollars, too. Your licence cost is only $5000 compared with the $32- to $40-M per licence in Norway because they hate the biological degradation of in-ocean. An-onland licence is free. BC's loss right now is $3.8- to 4.8-B. That's how bad it is.
Fish Farms Kill Billions of Forage Fish: 5.76 Billion per crop in BC. They should feed third world human mouths instead.
The world is moving to on-land. For years. Time to wake up in there. My Good News post on On-land is now at 350 articles/bank analysis/global fish farm news in the past year alone.
Finally, BC In-ocean Will Be Wiped Out - on-land is taking over the US, which is 85% of the BC market. Only one farm, Atlantic Sapphire in Florida will produce more than twice the BC output and flood the US with fish people want to eat. Not environmentally damaging ones.
Mike. John. Time to wake up and get with the program: Put fish farms on land. They can join the 310 on-land fish farms that I have found globally.
See: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.com/2016/05/152-different-on-land-fish-farm-systems.html.
Send an email:
John Horgan: premier@gov.bc.ca
Mike Farnworth: mike.farnworth.mla@leg.bc.ca
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Here is another one on lack of jobs: 334. Jobs, Economic Effects Hugely Over-estimated: Scotland, report: https://www.undercurrentnews.com/2020/04/27/scottish-govt-urged-to-rethink-support-for-increased-salmon-farm-production/?utm_source=Undercurrent+News+Alerts&utm_campaign=57d8b85f80-Europe_briefing_Apr_27_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_feb55e2e23-57d8b85f80-92426209.
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