Aquaculture improving?..The Fish Farm Thread

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Opinion: The state of Canada’s beloved salmon has become awfully fishy

Wild salmon have almost disappeared from Canadian waters, and in their place has arisen a massive industry of farm-raised Atlantic salmon, threatening the environment and human health
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Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish eBook : Collins, Catherine, Frantz, Douglas: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store

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Salmon Wars

A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposi...
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Government of Canada launches engagement towards a plan to transition from open-net pen salmon farming in British Columbia - Canada.ca

In order to advance innovation and support the ecological sustainability of the aquaculture sector in British Columbia, Fisheries and Oceans Canada is taking the next step to transition from open-net pen aquaculture in British Columbia coastal waters.
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The future of salmon aquaculture in British Columbia - Toward an open-net pen transition plan: A framework for discussion, 2022
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Consultations and engagement | Pacific Region | Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Consultations and engagement
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Conservation meets true crime in ‘The Salmon People’

Coming Tuesday, Aug. 9 on iTunes: The Salmon People builds on the success of CNO’s 2021 debut podcast series, Race Against Climate Change, which earned a nomination for Best Climate Solutions Reporting from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. This new collaborative podcast cements CNO’s...
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The Unlikely Detective

Chris Bennett runs Blackfish Lodge, 300 kilometres north of Vancouver where Canada’s West Coast crumbles into the Pacific Ocean. Chris was out with a group of tourists when he looked into the water alongside his boat and noticed young salmon — called smolts — acting strangely. He drove down the...
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The Gold Rush

If you take a boat along the coast of northern British Columbia, you’ll see towering deciduous trees and snow-capped peaks, small islands, big islands and scattered throughout it all … fish farms. Dozens of them. Alexandra Morton remembers their arrival — remembers the Gold Rush when anyone who...
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agentaqua said:
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The Gold Rush

If you take a boat along the coast of northern British Columbia, you’ll see towering deciduous trees and snow-capped peaks, small islands, big islands and scattered throughout it all … fish farms. Dozens of them. Alexandra Morton remembers their arrival — remembers the Gold Rush when anyone who...
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You should ask her how her go at salmon farming went...
 
ya I'm not yet convinced that the patterns of at least sockeye coast-wide this year have anything to do with FF removal. The pattern is far larger than the Broughtons.

From Bristol Bay to the Fraser - runs have been ~2-3 times more than predicted. Scale analysis shows a surprisingly high proportion of 6YOs in some lakes and very high 5YO fish generally. It's my pet theory that some proportion of the sockeye that would have normally returned last year (during the heat dome) instead said "F this - I'm staying out" and returned instead this year.

In addition, it is now generally accepted that large pink numbers mean low sockeye numbers:
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Hyper-abundant pink salmon outcompeting wild sockeye

Is it too soon to change B.C.
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The Secret Lives of Salmon: Where are all the pinks?

For every question scientists on the research vessel Kaganovsky have answered, a new mystery appears.
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So if there are big numbers of sockeye - wouldn't we expect low #s of pinks? Does that pattern follow in the Broughtons? Is there adequate fish fences and DIDSON/ARIS counting to accurately tell the escapement of both species? What would we expect there on even year returns such as this one?

In North coast streams, the large pink returns are in even-numbered years; South Coast odd years. What about the Broughtons? Where's the escapement and/or trawl survey data that indicates the returns there are abnormal this year for pinks?
 
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Besides the favourable ocean conditions part of me wonders if the massive factory ships stayed home because of covid.
 
wildmanyeah said:
Besides the favourable ocean conditions part of me wonders if the massive factory ships stayed home because of covid.
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You could be onto something there, but I do know last fall there was alot of them out there doing their thing, a buddy was out observing/flying over them in a multinational effort in gathering evidence
 
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