Aquaculture improving?..The Fish Farm Thread

[agentaqua]

Warming waters challenge Atlantic salmon — wild and farmed

Higher ocean and river temperatures are stressing Atlantic salmon, depriving these iconic fish of oxygen and forcing them to swim farther to find food. These climate change pressures are also impacting salmon in ocean farms, which have seen an increase in mass die-offs.

www.nationalobserver.com

 

[Hardy Guy]

 

[agentaqua]

Mowi condemns resource rent tax as “greatest setback” in Norwegian aquaculture industry’s history

In light of the Norwegian government's proposal for a 40% resource rent tax on the country's aquaculture industry and a resulting total tax of 62%, Mowi has announced it is cancelling its acquisition of 914 tonnes MAB for a total value of NOK 183 million (€18.3 million). "The government's tax...

salmonbusiness.com

Cermaq freezes investments in Norway

Cermaq is freezing investments in Norway as a result of the proposal for a resource rent tax. "We will wait for a clearer understanding of the announcement last week and the final proposal for resource rent tax," CEO Steven Rafferty said in a statement. "Based on the new proposal, we have no...

salmonbusiness.com

 

[gone fishin]

Mowi condemns resource rent tax as “greatest setback” in Norwegian aquaculture industry’s history

In light of the Norwegian government's proposal for a 40% resource rent tax on the country's aquaculture industry and a resulting total tax of 62%, Mowi has announced it is cancelling its acquisition of 914 tonnes MAB for a total value of NOK 183 million (€18.3 million). "The government's tax...

salmonbusiness.com

Cermaq freezes investments in Norway

Cermaq is freezing investments in Norway as a result of the proposal for a resource rent tax. "We will wait for a clearer understanding of the announcement last week and the final proposal for resource rent tax," CEO Steven Rafferty said in a statement. "Based on the new proposal, we have no...

salmonbusiness.com

Norway imposes a tax on disease riddles Fish Farms.
What will the Fish Farm owners do?
Expand their holdings in those countries who are still foolish enough to allow Fish Farms undertaxed existence.

 

[terrin]

Norway imposes a tax on disease riddles Fish Farms.
What will the Fish Farm owners do?
Expand their holdings in those countries who are still foolish enough to allow Fish Farms undertaxed existence.

And countries that allow them to continue to spread that disease and associated viruses in open net pens to passing Wild Salmon smolts which basically gives them a death sentence upon contraction of the diseases and viruses and sea lice.

 

[agentaqua]

Politicians holding shares in Mowi are among those seeking to sabotage salmon industry tax | IntraFish

'The fact that I have lost a few thousand kroner on this is the least of our problems,' claims politician helping to coordinate campaign against the tax.

www.intrafish.com

 

[agentaqua]

'Those who have the most must contribute more': Norway's minister of fisheries unfazed by salmon farmers cancelling investment plans | IntraFish

Many people believe this is right,' the minister said of the government's plan to levy the additional 40% tax.

www.intrafish.com

 

[agentaqua]

The Mandate vs the Mandarins

New research connects disease to the fish farms and the threat to wild salmon. Who wins this epic fight? Fisheries and Oceans managers working with the fish farm industry? Or First Nations and a tenacious whale scientist?

www.nationalobserver.com

 

[agentaqua]

Salmon farming harming marine life and costing billions in damage

Report says pollution, parasites and fish mortality rates cost an estimated $50bn globally from 2013 to 2019

www.theguardian.com

 

[agentaqua]

Sea Lice on Farmed Salmon: Eco-Label Now Allows Far More | The Tyee

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council’s new standard means up to 1,550 per cent more parasites can live on the fish.

thetyee.ca

 

[agentaqua]

Protests greet federal fish farm consultations in Campbell River – Campbell River Mirror

Minister remains ‘committed’ to the removal of open net fish farms in Discovery Islands

www.campbellrivermirror.com

 

[Hardy Guy]

Never want to miss a protest if one can help it.

 

[agentaqua]

 

[agentaqua]

https://dcs.megaphone.fm/CORU4017461079.mp3?key=a84a27692de35bcd0cb66676c608d87f&fbclid=IwAR1DU-0n-hNrsRd3ZxNvS6YATpsYoI_DlPJm1f3Mb8iSMXuzWcHxLWAuvh4

 

[searun]

Shocking - sure hope there isn't more manipulation of the original intent to go to closed containment. Personally I think there is more risk from spreading disease than what sea lice poses. I worry however, that in some science circles evidence of really bad diseases being passed from farmed fish to wild fish will just get buried so deep it never sees the light of day.

 

[agentaqua]

Salmon Farm Transition Consultations... suspended... resumed... opposed by many for being antithesis of mandate letter...close the 27th; a collection of views - Wild Salmon Action Team

Living Oceans: Transition Plan Consultations: False Start September 22, 2022 Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) was tasked by the Minister with undertaking consultations on the content of the Transition Plan that will guide the removal of salmon farms from B.C. waters. Living Oceans attended a...

wildsalmonaction.ca

 

[cuttlefish]

More DFO backpedalling?

DFO says wholesale removal of open-net pen salmon operations in BC by 2025 isn’t happening

Campaigners who have an “all-or-nothing” thinking when it comes to moving British Columbia’s open-net pen operations to closed containment technology by 2025 will be disappointed, as the Fisheries minister herself has said that’s unlikely. “I think there was some misunderstanding that there...

salmonbusiness.com

 

[wildmanyeah]

 

[Hardy Guy]

Maybe our anti fish farm folks can do a work exchange with the land based anti's ?

 

[agentaqua]

Interesting narrative promoted by the industry PR firms and boosters: anyone looking for accountability from either the industry or their compromised regulators - DFO- gets labelled an "anti" verses instead of simply being opposed to impacts to wild stocks vis-a-vis the very open net-cage technology used by the industry which allows them to currently operate with free pumping, free waster disposal and nearly free real estate and thereby maximizing their profits by offloading and externalizing impacts.