Salmon farming companies use a variety of pesticides to combat sea lice in order to minimize economic losses. Each with their own disconcerting set of problems, this can’t be good for our health, or for the health of the surrounding ecosystem.
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Chemical sea lice treatments on salmon farms pose unknown consequences to the ecosystem
Posted by: Stan Proboszcz | September 1st, 2010 | No CommentsTime for DFO to stand up and deliver
Posted by: David Lane | August 23rd, 2010 | No CommentsThe way the B.C. government and the province’s fish farm industry do business you’d expect them to be guarding nuclear secrets, not salmon tissue samples. Yet, time and time again, they break out the cloak and dagger routine, twisting themselves up in knots to prevent industry information – specifically about disease and sea lice infestations on farms – from being made public. The question is why?
Government not making it easy for concerned citizens to weigh in on wild salmon issues
Posted by: Michelle Young | August 20th, 2010 | 1 CommentWhen it rains it pours! This summer has seen a deluge of public comment periods concerning wild salmon in BC. (See the list below.) While this suggests that government wants to hear from us on these issues – many of the people who are most affected by the impacts of fish farms are extremely busy this time of year and unavailable to participate in public consultation processes.
Draft standards for organic aquaculture contain a lot of bull sediment
Posted by: Guest Author | August 10th, 2010 | 4 CommentsWhen faced with managing serious impacts of important oceans industries, the Canadian government sometimes pulls out their weaksaurus. Unlike a normal thesaurus, the weaksaurus doesn’t give you synonyms. Instead, it kind of gives you words that vaguely convey a weaker version of the original word. We’ll call them weakonyms. The recently released Draft Standards for Organic Aquaculture, put out by the government of Canada (the Canadian General Standards Board and DFO), have some great weakonyms, most of which serve to weaken the language in the standards for fish aquaculture.
Canadian government invests 1.2 million in aquaculture marketing initiatives rather than sustainable salmon farming technology
Posted by: David Lane | July 27th, 2010 | 2 CommentsCanada’s federal government announced an investment of 1.2 million taxpayer dollars towards aquaculture promotion including a “salmon public relations campaign.” This investment in image management is a testament to the widespread negative public opinion of the net-cage salmon farming industry, as well as an astonishing failure on the part of government to invest in real solutions that address the source of the industry’s declining reputation – unsustainable salmon farming practices.
Aquaponics and the future of sustainable cities (Part 1)
Posted by: David Fields | July 20th, 2010 | 4 CommentsAs the development of closed containment technology continues to gain momentum, I thought I’d take a look at another type of land-based fish farming – aquaponics. During my search I came across some inspiring examples of small-scale urban operations and I got to thinking, could this emerging trend, like general urban agriculture, be an integral part of the sustainable city of the future?
A report from the “epicentre” of the sea louse controversy in Canada
Posted by: Stan Proboszcz | July 7th, 2010 | 1 CommentI recently spent a week in the Broughton Archipelago monitoring wild juvenile salmon as part of a collaborative endeavor between CAAR, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, independent scientists and all the salmon farming companies operating in the Broughton Archipelago. It’s a very unique project, bringing government, NGOs, scientists and corporations together to assess recent farm management changes on the incidence of lice on wild juvenile salmon.
