Well it may certainly be another mail in the coffin along with the gauntlet of gill nets.
Aquaculture improving?..The Fish Farm Thread
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More of the same lack of accountability, conflicts of interest, hiding and dishonesty from the mindset of the regulators protecting an industry rather than serving the public and protecting wild salmon - which is instead their Constitutional duty:
thenarwhal.ca
DFO told B.C. salmon farmers, but not First Nations, about mouth rot disease
Federal scientists raised alarm about bacteria,, saying migrating Fraser River salmon were at risk, but didn’t tell First Nations in B.C.
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ok we know you support Fish Farms Wildman
lets not get ridiculous with your posts!!
Sarcasm does not contribute anything
wildmanyeah
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yes because removing fish farms is not going to address the structural issues effecting our fishery’s.
removal of industry is not bringing the fish back.
this is what has been affecting some net-pen operations that DFO is hiding:
fishhistopathology.com
Tenacibaculosis in Fish – Gross Pathology - Fish Pathology
Tenacibaculosis is primarily a skin infection causing ulcerative dermatitis in a range of commercially important species worldwide. Three species belonging to
fishhistopathology.com
Can sustainable fish farming practices generate financial returns?
According to Ohad Maiman, founder and CEO of The Kingfish Company, they can indeed – although he warned that sustainability is by no means “a free pass” to profitability.
thefishsite.com
Wild fish stocks squandered to feed farmed salmon, study finds
Wealthy nations accused of depriving poorer ones of nutrient-rich food and wasting mackerel, sardine and anchovy stocks
It has never been more expensive to feed salmon
Fish feed price at all time high. And the prospects for an imminent price decline are not particularly favorable. Converted to Euro, it cost €1.32 for a kilo of fish feed in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to the average feed price achieved from BioMar's quarterly report which came out on...
salmonbusiness.com
Atlantic salmon farms are a likely source of Tenacibaculum maritimum infection in migratory Fraser River sockeye salmon
Infectious disease from domestic hosts, held for agriculture, can impact wild species that migrate in close proximity, potentially reversing selective advantages afforded by migration. For sockeye salmon in British Columbia, Canada, juveniles migrate past numerous Atlantic salmon farms from...
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Fraser-River sockeye smolts, migrating northwest after ocean entry, displayed a sharp peak in Tenacibaculum maritimum detections in the Discovery Islands region of BC, about 200 km after they had left freshwater (Figure 2). Standard differential-equation models fit to these data indicate that Atlantic salmon farms in the Discovery Islands likely contribute to T. maritimum infection rates in Fraser-River sockeye. ...Our best models, directly informed by the data, described a peak in farm-source infection that was an order of magnitude (12.7 times) higher than background infection rates. Resulting farm-origin infection occurred over a short portion of the earlymarine migration route, but at such high intensity that total farm-source infections approached total background-origin infections acquired over the entire migration route....; farm-source T. maritimum infection pressure from Discovery-Island farms appears to far exceed that from other farms...peak farm-source infection pressure was between 4.5 and 31 times as high as average background infection pressure...the main peak of infection occurred near the cluster of farms in the Discovery Islands...The resulting predicted mortality due to T. maritimum was 87.9% by Julian day 275 (150 days after mean ocean-entry date), even though population-wide infection prevalence peaked at just 1.2% around Julian day 150 (25 days after ocean entry)....direct disease-induced mortality can be rapid for some pathogens (e.g. Frisch et al. 2018b), and diseased individuals may suffer indirect mortality through their inability to find food or evade predators (Bakke and Harris 1998; Miller et al. 2014; James et al. 2020; Furey et al. 2021). As a result, infected individuals may drop out of a population without spending much time infected, keeping the overall proportion of infected individuals at any one time low. A key point here is that the pathogen does not have to sustain itself in the wild population, if a nearby stable infection source is present. Outbreaks that would normally "burn out" in the wild have the potential to persist in the system overall, and wild populations can be driven to extinction (de Castro and Bolker 2004).
results from our wild-salmon screening program highlight T. maritimum transmission as a possible mechanism for population-level impacts of farmed Atlantic salmon on wild Pacific salmon populations in BC, and present evidence that elevated infections in Fraser-River sockeye likely originate from salmon-farm sources in the Discovery Islands region. These findings, paired with the continued declines in sockeye population health (COSEWIC 2017; Hawkshaw et al. 2020), suggest that recent conclusions about the “minimal risk” of harm posed by this agent (DFO 2020) were premature.
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Atlantic salmon farms are a likely source of Tenacibaculum maritimum infection in migratory Fraser River sockeye salmon
Infectious disease from domestic hosts, held for agriculture, can impact wild species that migrate in close proximity, potentially reversing selective advantages afforded by migration. For sockeye salmon in British Columbia, Canada, juveniles migrate past numerous Atlantic salmon farms from...www.biorxiv.org
Atlantic salmon farms are a likely source of Tenacibaculum maritimum infection in migratory Fraser River sockeye salmon
Does it look like this
or more like this
or more like this
Canada's salmon farmers target six-year licence renewal
Canada’s salmon farmers argue that a renewal of BC’s salmon farming licences for a minimum of six years is required, following the release of a new document by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.
thefishsite.com
B.C. premier expresses concern about aquaculture job loss to prime minister
John Horgan wants the feds to consider coastal communities in upcoming fish farm decision
www.campbellrivermirror.com
wildmanyeah
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B.C. premier expresses concern about aquaculture job loss to prime minister
John Horgan wants the feds to consider coastal communities in upcoming fish farm decision
what an interesting interesting tangled weave
Horgan's letter on fish farms causes 'stir' among chiefs
Premier weighs in on salmon farm issue, cautioning against massive job losses
biv.com
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Me thinks Horgan is trying to work the issue from both ends.
Keep the anti fish farm guys happy and wild salmon happier by having the Feds, not him, take Open Net Pen Fish Farms out of open waters then demanding compensation from Ottawa for the Farmers and the communities who have lost jobs.
Keep the anti fish farm guys happy and wild salmon happier by having the Feds, not him, take Open Net Pen Fish Farms out of open waters then demanding compensation from Ottawa for the Farmers and the communities who have lost jobs.
Unreel
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So Horgan is trying to get Ottawa to help the fish farm industry.. Has he also reached out to the feds for support for the commercial fishing sector or rec sector that’s been hammered by restrictions and closures? Interesting to see where the government’s priorities are these days.
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