cuttlefish
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Better late than never.
Aquaculture improving?..The Fish Farm Thread
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In 2009, Canada established the Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River. The goal was to investigate the decline of sockeye salmon stocks and provide recommendations.
Study, observe, consult, put out another discussion paper, blah blah blah. Does anybody on here really have any faith that "the plan" will actually amount to anything other than another massive waste of taxpayer dollars.
Study, observe, consult, put out another discussion paper, blah blah blah. Does anybody on here really have any faith that "the plan" will actually amount to anything other than another massive waste of taxpayer dollars.
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Every year that there is a delay - there is another year of not paying for sewerage disposal, pumping & real estate. Every years delay is another years profit for the multinationals shareholders & the CEOs. follow the $$$$$...
Whole in the Water
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https://bc.ctvnews.ca/feds-draft-transition-plan-for-b-c-salmon-farms-finally-arrives-7-weeks-late-1.7046970
Feds' draft transition plan for B.C. salmon farms finally arrives, 7 weeks late
When the federal government announced all open net fish farms on the British Columbia coast need to be out of the water by 2029, it also promised to produce a draft transition plan by the end of July.It missed that target by seven weeks, but late Friday afternoon CTV News obtained a copy of the draft report.
It outlines how the government plans to move forward with support for First Nations, communities and workers that rely on the industry, and describes aspirational plans to make B.C. a world leader in innovative and clean aquaculture technology.
It says the government will work with First Nations to identify and develop new economic opportunities that align with each community’s particular needs and values.
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While existing open net pen farms must phase out in the next five years, the draft plan acknowledges the transition to other forms of aquaculture will likely take longer than that.
According to industry proponents, most of the remote communities that currently host open net pen salmon farms do not have the infrastructure to support new, land-based facilities.
“To be able to bring in a lot of these technologies, we simply don’t have the electric power to do that,” said Dallas Smith with the Coalition of First Nations for Finfish Stewardship.
“And so we’re engaged in discussions with BC Hydro to look at ways we can close the gap.”
The path forward could include floating or land-based closed containment facilities – which have limited or no contact with the natural marine environment – but construction and technology costs could be prohibitive.
"The land-based side has considerably more capital costs involved than the net pens. So that's the downside of that,” said Gary Robinson, a consultant in the salmon aquaculture industry.
“You're trading off better survival and higher productivity for higher capital costs."
An economic analysis produced for the provincial government by Counterpoint Consulting estimates the cost of replacing B.C.’s open net pen Atlantic salmon harvest with recirculating aquaculture systems could be as high as $1.8 billion.
As the federal government continues to refine the details of what the transition could and should like, B.C. risks falling behind.
"Washington, Oregon and California are all vying to attract investments into their jurisdictions to service the U.S. market and they're becoming more and more competitive as B.C. becomes less competitive,” Robinson said.
A closed-containment fish farm owned by the 'Namgis First Nation on northern Vancouver Island is shown. (CTV News)
The critics are right: it’s time to 'close down' salmon farms | Intrafish
It will take time and significant investment, but declining fish health is pushing the industry in one, undeniable direction.
Good question. And it's not apples & oranges because we call one land mass with imaginary boundaries & different politics & governance systems "Norway", and another "Canada". And the similarities include the extensive use of open net-pen technology which by definition cannot mitigate negative wild-cultured stock interactions - which has been the experience World-wide for far too many years. I's instead a question of trade-offs, and what is put at risk & potentially impacted. And the are nested scales & management actions to consider, as well.
Estimating risk & subsequent risk mitigation efforts is estimated using a matrix using likelihood x consequences. Risk Level = Probability x Impact or Risk = Likelihood x Severity.
Likelihood depends upon the numbers of interactions - which in BC means there is ~1000 TIMES MORE RISK & potential impacts as there is ~1000 times more wild salmon than Norway.
It's therefore way worse using the open-pen technology in BC than Norway.
Assessing and Managing Environmental Risks Associated with Marine Finfish Aquaculture
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If there was anywhere on this planet that the ONP industry wasn't having a devastating impact on local wild salmon stocks - the PR firms would be singing about that outlier. But this is more confirmation about the inability of the ONP technology to provide safety to adjacent wild salmon stocks:
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Groups celebrate ruling on hatchery expansion
Appeals court upholds decision requiring project to undergo a fulsome environmental assessment ST JOHN’S, N.L./TRADITIONAL TERRITORY OF THE BEOTHUK AND MI’KMAQ – The Newfoundland and Labrador Court of…
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I think if they scaled back farm sizes, I mean scaled back dramatically and kept them moving that might mitigate damage. I am talking a lot of downsizing and fewer numbers of them. Change species to local types, do not infest an area with non local fish.
Might work better for them, fewer fish to sell could mean bigger prices due to lower supply and bigger demand.
Best is just not having them around wild stocks anywhere. 100 miles off shore maybe.
Might work better for them, fewer fish to sell could mean bigger prices due to lower supply and bigger demand.
Best is just not having them around wild stocks anywhere. 100 miles off shore maybe.
Bryan Allen
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Coles Notes needed AA.
Stoisy
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"Recent studies on wild Pacific salmon have indicated that the spread of T. maritimum from salmon farms is a risk to infection and survival of wild fish (9, 19). T. maritimum detection rates peaked in juvenile Fraser River sockeye as they migrated past the DiscoveryIslands (Fig. 5A), and spatio-epidemiological models fit to those data suggest that salmon farms in the Discovery Islands are the most plausible source of infection (9). In addition, sampling of wild Chinook and coho salmon in their first year of marine residence shows that T. maritimum infection is associated with decreased marine survival in Chinook and reduced body condition in Chinook and coho (19), one of the most consistent patterns across infective agents studied. Together, this evidence indicates that salmon farms, which elevate levels of T. maritimum in the marine environment (36, 38), increase exposure levels and risk of population-level impacts for some species. These risks are likely to increase with climate change, because T. maritimum tends to be most common in warmer years (36, 38)" - Page 6
Disgusting
Peer-reviewed research: Pathogen threats from salmon aquaculture to wild Pacific salmon conservation in B.C. | Pacific Salmon Foundation
A new scientific review highlights significant concerns regarding the spread of pathogens from farmed salmon to wild Pacific salmon populations in British Columbia. The peer-reviewed summary, titled ‘Pathogens from salmon aquaculture in relation to conservation of wild Pacific salmon in Canada’...
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wildmanyeah
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Canadian fish farms improving sustainability metrics: study
Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance produces first sustainability report
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Time to "Turn The Page". lolCanadian fish farms improving sustainability metrics: study
Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance produces first sustainability report
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