Recent federal government licensing decisions to shut down sustainable salmon farming in parts of British Columbia (BC) mean that Canadian salmon is costing more for families, is harder to find in grocery stores and is being replaced by farm-raised salmon flown in from elsewhere in the world.
If people didn't want it, the price would reflect that , just the same as any other commodity or your labour? Do you work for less these days?
Demand is there cost go up, simple
Recent federal government licensing decisions to shut down sustainable salmon farming in parts of British Columbia (BC) mean that Canadian salmon is costing more for families, is harder to find in grocery stores and is being replaced by farm-raised salmon flown in from elsewhere in the world.
“Big news — 16 of Canada’s leading Pacific salmon scientists just released a letter destroying a new DFO science report that claims parasitic sea lice from factory fish farms do not have a significant impact on wild salmon.
One of these scientists, Dr. Sean Godwin, said, “it is one of the worst pieces of science I’ve ever seen come out of a government agency.”
The scientists said "this report fails to meet widely accepted scientific standards on numerous fronts, and therefore falls well short of the quality of science advice that you need to make informed decisions on the future of salmon aquaculture in Canada. Wild salmon deserve better.” TRANSLATION: The DFO report is junk and Joyce Murray, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, should ignore it.”
“Big news — 16 of Canada’s leading Pacific salmon scientists just released a letter destroying a new DFO science report that claims parasitic sea lice from factory fish farms do not have a significant impact on wild salmon.
One of these scientists, Dr. Sean Godwin, said, “it is one of the worst pieces of science I’ve ever seen come out of a government agency.”
The scientists said "this report fails to meet widely accepted scientific standards on numerous fronts, and therefore falls well short of the quality of science advice that you need to make informed decisions on the future of salmon aquaculture in Canada. Wild salmon deserve better.” TRANSLATION: The DFO report is junk and Joyce Murray, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, should ignore it.”
it seems DFO - and esp the aquaculture department - is incapable of embarrassment - or even professionalism for that matter. One needs morals to be embarrassed, so it seems.
it seems DFO - and esp the aquaculture department - is incapable of embarrassment - or even professionalism for that matter. One needs morals to be embarrassed, so it seems.
I think most would agree DFO is only acting on instructions from our politicians who are doing their best to walk the tight rope of supporting Fish Farms and the jobs they create. The fact is Fish Farms are killing wild salmon and it also effects employment but not so obvious or measurable.
I think most would agree DFO is only acting on instructions from our politicians who are doing their best to walk the tight rope of supporting Fish Farms and the jobs they create. The fact is Fish Farms are killing wild salmon and it also effects employment but not so obvious or measurable.
Honestly if they put them on land they would create 10 times the jobs for the startup portion and be on the hydro bill like everyone else adding to the GDP by double what they are at now. It's overhead they don't want. Even if it's at our own cost. It's simple math.
As a business outlook they could do better in the end. Cleaner product, cheaper food because now they don't need as many drugs in the food etc. However the cost rises in power obviously and machine maintenance. On that level they could pump out twice the product in half the time if they engineered it.
They way I read the closed containment/ONP methodologies and debate is that currently - the ONP industry receives free pumping, free sewerage disposal and free real estate that allows them to not spend monies on these necessities and thereby pass these increased dividends onto their shareholders - along with the reduced taxes in Canada as compared to Norway:
Norway's centre-left government said on Wednesday it plans to increase taxes on electricity producers and fish farmers to raise an extra 33 billion crowns ($3 billion) a year.
www.reuters.com
Where's the impetus for change? Why would ONP multinationals want to change the status quo - irrespective of any potential impacts to adjacent wild salmon stocks - their competitor in the marketplace?
Closed containment - on the other hand - is more expensive due to the additional costs outlined above and typically operates on lower production biomass. There needs to be a higher premium paid for these CC-raised fish - which is hard when they currently compete in a market with ONP-raised fish. That financial reality pushes their product into a "niche" market only where they can get a slight premium. This would all change if we only allowed CC - but that is not currently the case.
And other countries would still do ONP (esp chile) and its like many things - a race to the bottom there wrt environmental enforcement and effects. That's why there is a substantial PR industry attached to this ONP industry - to facilitate the status quo by interjecting doubt - where the Aquaculture Department in DFO is complicit in that deception by rejecting and changing inconvenient science as their jobs and research $ depend upon an existing ONP industry.
As but only 1 example - Simon Jones is an adjunct prof at UPEI - which gets money from DFO, industry and other sources for aquaculture research.
Also, he has tapped into the ACRDP funding that requires industry participation and a veto:
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The same story was in todays Times Colonist and is spreading high and wide.
Another example of DFO and Fish Farms using false science to support their cause.
"A pattern of scientific manipulation?"
Mordecai said the manipulation of data and biased conclusions are the same strategies DFO has relied on when it comes to analyzing the impact of Piscine orthoreovirus (PRV), a debilitating virus widely seen in Atlantic salmon. It can transmit through open-water pens into wild Pacific salmon populations.
“We've seen this in the past,” said Mordecai, pointing to previous DFO risk analyses in the Discovery Islands and elsewhere. “...these are the same strategies.”
Sean Godwin, a post-doctoral fellow at SFU and incoming assistant professor at University of California, Davis, said the DFO study simply amounted to bad science.
They way I read the closed containment/ONP methodology is that currently - the ONP industry receives free pumping, free sewerage disposal and free real estate that allows them to not spend monies on these necessities and thereby pass these increased dividends onto their shareholders - along with the reduced taxes in Canada as compared to Norway.
Where's the impetus for change? Why would ONP multinationals want to change the status quo - irrespective of any potential impacts to adjacent wild salmon stocks - their competitor in the marketplace?
Closed containment - on the other hand - is more expensive due to the additional costs outlined above. There needs to be a higher premium paid for these CC-raised fish - which is hard when they currently compete in a market with ONP-raised fish. That financial reality pushes their product into a "niche" market only where they can get a slight premium. This would all change if we only allowed CC - but that is not currently the case.
And other countries would still do ONP (esp chile) and its like many things - a race to the bottom there wrt environmental enforcement and effects. That's why there is a substantial PR industry attached to this ONP industry - to facilitate the status quo by interjecting doubt - where the Aquaculture Department in DFO is complicit in that deception by rejecting and changing inconvenient science as their jobs and research $ depend upon an existing ONP industry.
As but only 1 example - Simon Jones is an adjunct prof at UPEI - which gets money from DFO, industry and other sources for aquaculture research.
Also, he has tapped into the ACRDP funding that requires industry participation and a veto:
Bla bla bla, almost any industry that grows food gets "land for free" ffs, ever heard of ALR?
How about each and every shellfish lease?
Tired of the of "they get this and that for next to nothing"
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