Aquaculture improving?..The Fish Farm Thread

[Whole in the Water]

Obviously we need to manage the impacts that humans have on the environment we depend on. Only a stupid person would keep crapping in their house and not expect some negative impacts eventually.

The point is when there is growing amount of peer reviewed scientific evidence that something is causing harm only a fool delays and/or does little about it. History is full of examples of the greed and stupidity of humans that have ruined cities, cultures, species and environments. We can only do this for so long before some bad stuff happens to more and more humans.

I am not against fish farming just do
it on land to better manage the negative impacts.

 

[agentaqua]

Great posts & discussion between SF & WitW. That problem of costs vs. benefit is one that an environmental assessment is supposed to take on. But as well know that is precisely why this industry has been exempt from any such scrutiny since the start. There are many places on the Pacific Coast that are the worst possible places to interact the wild salmon stocks in the migratory pathways of the most salmon like the Discovery Islands. And who gets to make these decisions based on what criteria? I think that is what this latest science is suggesting.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Only a stupid person would keep crapping in their house and not expect some negative impacts eventually.

lol sound like shellfish

 

[Hardy Guy]

What of some of the farms stayed where FN support and were removed where there is no support. Salmon returns would improve where the FN remove (Broughton) and the salmon returns would stay good where the farms stay ( quatsino, port hardy and klemtu) and some economic benefits will still be realized.

It is funny how shellfish aquaculture is not questioned and folks don't mind lossing access to thousands of acres of beaches. Sablefish aquaculture is also not questioned but those fish still poop, are fed pellets and are given medication ..... as stated all agriculture/ aquaculture gas some impacts.

 

[agentaqua]

I think effects from shellfish aquaculture has been questioned, HG - mostly concerns about refuse & invasive species.

After Aquaculture Fails, Who Cleans Up? | The Tyee

Too often, taxpayers foot the bill for difficult infrastructure removal. That may change.

thetyee.ca

By-and-large the ability of both adult & juvenile salmon to swim hundreds - if not thousands of km - connects potential impacts of amplified disease/parasite vectors in a much larger web of negative interactions than passive drift of vectors - which also happens.

Then there a sheer numbers of wild salmon on Pacific Coast as compared to elsewhere in the World where the ONPSF happens that can and do interact with the many hundreds of thousands of farmed fish on each site.

I never see the FF lobby wish to admit these realities.

 

[Hardy Guy]

Aquaculture leader calls for BC salmon ban to be scrapped in 're-set' for Canada

Kennedy wants 'science-based' policies after 'transition' architect Trudeau quits

www.fishfarmingexpert.com

 

[terrin]

Aquaculture leader calls for BC salmon ban to be scrapped in 're-set' for Canada

Kennedy wants 'science-based' policies after 'transition' architect Trudeau quits

www.fishfarmingexpert.com

Put a fork in Open Net Cage Fish Farming. Wild Salmon can’t live with the multiple types of rot that emanates from these pens. With the recent closure of net pens it’s been incredible to see the rebound of Wild Salmon in the Straight.

 

[agentaqua]

Because a past mouthpiece/investor for Spectra Energy from Toronto, brings a "wealth of experience and expertise" into the debate into wild/cultured stock interactions on the Pacific Coast. Or maybe instead after CAIA imploded ... it's the fact that this lobbyist lives in Ottawa and is accessible to tell lies to the dumb f*ck naïve politicians in Ottawa after the drama teacher leaves is more the important part? Just a question...