Aquaculture improving?..The Fish Farm Thread

agentaqua said:
as expected:
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We are up against the foreign owned big guys who are committed to growing profit, not protecting wild salmon.

Strong quarter to end a record year for Mowi
(Bergen, 15 February 2023) Mowi recorded record-high revenues of 1,362 million euros in the fourth quarter of 2022. Operational profit was 239 million euros, compared with 146 million euros in the corresponding quarter of 2021.

Strong quarter to end a record year for Mowi - Mowi Company Website
 
Yepper, GF. So the costs for a lawyer to ensure business as usual is allowed is a pittance. I'm thinking they will loose this one tho - after maybe some thousands to millions $ of taxpayer monies are spent on the defense side.
 

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Expecting aquaculture to ‘feed the world’ may be unrealistic, UBC-led study shows | Sea Around Us

Trends in global aquaculture growth rates reveal that the 101 million tonnes of farmed fish intergovernmental bodies expect countries to produce by 2030 may be unrealistic, a new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia shows.
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www.frontiersin.org

Aquaculture over-optimism?

The recent rapid growth in aquaculture production reported by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization may have inadvertently generated what we denote here as aquaculture over-optimism. An extreme form of this is the notion that we need not worry about sustaining wild fish stocks...
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Abstract
Recent decades have seen an increased appreciation for the role infectious diseases can play in mass mortality events across a diversity of marine taxa. At the same time many Pacific salmon populations have declined in abundance as a result of reduced marine survival. However, few studies have explicitly considered the potential role pathogens could play in these declines. Using a multi-year dataset spanning 59 pathogen taxa in Chinook and Coho salmon sampled along the British Columbia coast, we carried out an exploratory analysis to quantify evidence for associations between pathogen prevalence and cohort survival, and between pathogen load and body condition. While a variety of pathogens had moderate to strong negative correlations with body condition or survival for one host species in one season, we found that Tenacibaculum maritimum and Piscine orthoreovirus had consistently negative associations with body condition in both host species and seasons, and were negatively associated with survival for Chinook salmon collected in the fall and winter. Our analyses, which offer the most comprehensive examination of associations between pathogen prevalence and Pacific salmon survival to date, suggest that pathogens in Pacific salmon warrant further attention, especially those whose distribution and abundance may be influenced by anthropogenic stressors.

watershedwatch.ca

The state of salmon farming in B.C.

The state of salmon farming in B.C. is complicated. To help clear up confusion, check out this timeline of events on the B.C. salmon farm front.
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psf.ca

Study investigates presence of infectious agents in wild Pacific salmon « Pacific Salmon Foundation

New mapping research reveals hotspots for 41 infectious agents in wild Pacific salmon along B.C. coast. A new study in Scientific Reports by Dr. Arthur Bass and coauthors assesses the marine distribution of dozens of infectious agents in wild Pacific salmon in the marine environment. This...
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www.nature.com

The spatial distribution of infectious agents in wild Pacific salmon along the British Columbia coast - Scientific Reports

Although infectious agents can act as strong population regulators, knowledge of their spatial distributions in wild Pacific salmon is limited, especially in the marine environment. Characterizing pathogen distributions during early marine residence, a period considered a survival bottleneck for...
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biv.com

Sean Jones: A crisis of trust with the science from the federal Fisheries Department

Lawyer Sean Jones argues for stronger regulations on salmon farming.
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Many people on the site still seem to have blind faith in DFO and their processes, and dismiss us DFO haters as acting like neanderthals. I don't know if someone has already posted the above article but it clearly outlines why us DFO haters feel the way we do, and why, in most cases, information shared by DFO is not worth the paper it is written on.
 
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