The system is so rigged it’s just disgusting. You probably can right off the 500 dollar fine as a business expense. Brutal.
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Aquaculture improving?..The Fish Farm Thread
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An independent analysis of their posted correction shows the original paper didn’t report Ct values, just that PRV had been detected. Ct or ‘Cycle threshold’ values are used to indicate the general amount of virus detected.
The corrected paper does report Ct values. And those indicated that in 111 of the 116 PRV positive results, the Ct values for PRV were in the range of being suspect cases, and not true positives.
Of the five remaining samples with greater levels of PRV, two fish had been exposed to salmon farms and the other three had not been.
“Therefore, the data do not support the analysis that the proportion of PRV infection in wild fish was related to exposure to salmon farms,” said the analyst.
Minor transcription errors in the file ‘S3_Table Wild Fish Data" have been corrected in the revised version of this file attached to this correction notice. We make the following minor corrections: (i) The percentage of positive tests in the farmed Atlantic salmon sampled fish should be lowered from 95% to 93%, and (ii) the percentage of positive tests in the farmed steelhead sampled fish should be raised from 69% to 71%. These minor corrections had no impact on the results of the statistical analyses reported in the paper or the subsequent discussion or conclusions.
Doubt is continually the fuel the industry PR machine operates on. By creating doubt & never resolving it - they can continue on business, as usual.
And how can an independent scientist/researcher investigate what the impacts are on adjacent wild stocks and figure-out impacts from these introduced disease in a timely manner? THEY CAN'T - because all the info as to timing & location of outbreaks is purposely hidden by our regulators. Out of sight, out of mind - as far as the industry and it's bodyguards are concerned.
And how can an independent scientist/researcher investigate what the impacts are on adjacent wild stocks and figure-out impacts from these introduced disease in a timely manner? THEY CAN'T - because all the info as to timing & location of outbreaks is purposely hidden by our regulators. Out of sight, out of mind - as far as the industry and it's bodyguards are concerned.
Discovery Islands residents were never consulted: letter
I would like to respond to the article by Bob Mackin in TheBreaker.news about the collaboration between the salmon farming lobby and Campbell River Mayor Andy Adams and his council.
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“Seachoice” lost me in the second paragraph. Such an Act must also advance Indigenous sovereignty and reconciliation.
What exactly does that mean and what does it have to do with aquaculture?
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So just how long will it take to get "beyond open net pen Atlantic salmon fish farms"
It's already taken way TOO LONG
We can only hope it is not too long. Tomorrow is not soon enough!!
Great questions, Terrin.
The "proposed" Aquaculture Act is something that the industry has been working on promoting to upper DFO staff for many years now - right after they lost the Morton Case in 2009. They knew the writing was on the wall and they didn't want to be regulated under the Fisheries Act, so they lobbied for their own friendlier act. One they make up for DFO. Because - isn't that how business is done?
Just like they are currently working behind the scenes now with the industry in developing the General Aquaculture Regulations (GARs) to implement this Act - and nobody else is invited to these extremely private and select sessions, as well. Because the regulations are where the rubber hits the road, as Acts are largely motherhood statements. If one can have exclusive access to how regulations are written - lobbyists can get what they want, and minimize embarrassing and troublesome regulations that might hinder what they want to do - like maybe public disease reporting.
That's exactly what happened with the Aquaculture Activities Regulations (AARs), as well - sea lice and diseases were supposed to be part of those regulations, but instead after working in secret with industry - the AARs released the industry from s. 36 of the Fisheries Act - release of a deleterious substance - which is what they wanted because they knew the well boats and baths were coming because the sea lice were becoming resistant to slice and they needed to switch treatments that left them with a hold of nasty chemicals and no easy way to dispose of those chemicals.
In 2010, the Canadian Aquaculture Industry Alliance (“CAIA”) wrote a letter to the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (“DFO”) pushing for a separate federal aquaculture statute and clearer property rights for aquaculturists:
(http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/206/30...OCALHOS/EXHIBITFILES/EXH_1626___CAN384486.ZIP).
This initiative was supported and driven up the ladder in DFO by upper-level DFO managers (e.g. Trevor Swerdfager & James Smith). I would bet they are tight with Timothy Sargent, the Deputy Minister:
Dear Senior DFO Staff Some Must Step Away from the Fish
Dear Senior DFO staff, I have read 12 years of your internal conversations about how you and your predecessors have suppressed the growing evidence that salmon farming is causing serious harm to wild salmon. Your emails are available through the Access to Information Act. I have come to the...
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From 2011 – 2015 DFO convened the National Aquaculture Strategic Action Plan Initiative (NASAPI):
https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/aquaculture/lib-bib/nasapi-inpasa/Report-eng.htm#a5
focused on “Harmonization” of legislation for aquaculture development through the rather exclusive and reclusive old boys club called the "Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers (CCFAM)."
By 2013 – Pamela Parker (executive director of the Atlantic Canada Fish Farmers Association) who also later testified at the Senate Committee hearings on aquaculture that proposed a new Aquaculture Act) was lobbying for a “New Aquaculture Strategy” by 2013.
And “co-incidentally” and totally "unrelatedly" (sarcasm):
From 2011 – 2015 The Senate convened the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans in order to examine and report on the regulation of aquaculture, current challenges and future prospects for the industry in Canada that tabled their report in 2016. One of those senator sons is a contractor for the same industry - Fabian Manning Jr leases two large boats as supply vessels to Northern Harvest Sea Farms aka Mowi for likely $10,000+/day. No conflicts of interest to declare here, folks! Another senator was "residential schools were actually good" Lynn Beyak (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/lynn-beyak-suspended-second-time-1.5478536), along with "Canada will pay nearly half a million dollars in compensation to my nine employees" Don Meredith (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/don-meredith-compensation-1.5761652). These were the "well-informed" brains behind the report, supposedly.
So substantial work on developing and promoting a proposed Aquaculture Act that would take the aquaculture industry away from complying with the existing Fisheries Act was carried-out for many years.
But this is instead how DFO Communications Branch framed the "consultations" on the Act:
How we got here
June 2016: Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries and Oceans (SCOFO) tabled a report “An Ocean of Opportunities: Aquaculture in Canada”
and we'll just ignore all that back room politicking that's been going on for years - because the serfs might get unruly if we acknowledge that - and besides - that's just business, anyways. They don't need to know what really goes on in the castle.
Absolutely disgusting how they have to lie constantly to support this industry. There should be accountability for those actions. It's criminal, as far as I am concerned.
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The last cowboys
News analysis Alaska is expected to see another near-record salmon season this year with the Alaska Department Fish and Game forecasting a harvest of more than 190 million of the fish or somewhere …
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Mowi to cull 3 million fish after minister changes rules
Mowi is to cull 3 million young salmon at its hatcheries in British Columbia as a direct result of a sudden change by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to double the time to receive a transfer permit from 20 days to 40.
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Mowi to cull 3 million fish after minister changes rules
Mowi is to cull 3 million young salmon at its hatcheries in British Columbia as a direct result of a sudden change by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to double the time to receive a transfer permit from 20 days to 40.
- We will begin culling more than 3,000,000 salmon in our hatcheries in the coming weeks. This is the equivalent of 61,000,000 million meals lost.” Heard this whine song too many times before from these Factory Farms. Do they know how many millions of meals of healthy Wild Salmon are lost from all their sea lice killing they migrating smolts passing by. The free lunch is over get on with it.
Not to mention all the millions of meals lost that were taken out of the Seas many in third world country’s that desperately need all the meals they can get to make the Fish farm feed pellets. https://www.esa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/issue8.pdf
DFO told B.C. salmon farmers, but not First Nations, about mouth rot disease
Federal scientists raised alarm about bacteria,, saying migrating Fraser River salmon were at risk, but didn’t tell First Nations in B.C.
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We all know Atlantic Open Net Pen Fish farms are not the only problem effecting the survival of our wild Pacific Salmon, but Aqua's post above tells us once again that one of the biggest problem they face are Sea Lice originating from these Fish Farms!
Kinda tells it all;
" Since 2017, our research confirms that juvenile salmon sea lice infestation levels are directly related to the sea lice numbers at open-net salmon farms. We are seeing higher sea lice abundances in Clayoquot Sound than was found here by previous studies, correlating to high sea lice levels on fish farms. In 2018 Clayoquot sound salmon farms had the highest sea lice levels in all of BC.
We found some individual fish to have as many as 50 total sea lice on them."
Kinda tells it all;
" Since 2017, our research confirms that juvenile salmon sea lice infestation levels are directly related to the sea lice numbers at open-net salmon farms. We are seeing higher sea lice abundances in Clayoquot Sound than was found here by previous studies, correlating to high sea lice levels on fish farms. In 2018 Clayoquot sound salmon farms had the highest sea lice levels in all of BC.
We found some individual fish to have as many as 50 total sea lice on them."
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