More Evidence on the Impact of Net Pen Fish Farms

[Whole in the Water]

Yet more evidence of the harmful, environmental impact of net pen fish farms. Time to get these destructive, polluting disease generators out of the water and on to the land where they do less harm!!!

How much evidence and studies do the hacks that support this environmentally, irresponsible industry need before they stop fighting for their right to pollute our coastline and threaten our wild salmon for the sake of making a buck for themselves?

http://www.vancouversun.com/technol...+lice+linked+salmon+deaths/5300201/story.html

 

[searun]

The evidence is clear, but the financial rewards for maintaining the status quo is more powerful than the science. Logical thinkers would have concluded long ago the need to move towards closed containment systems. When you analyze the pro's of closed containment it just makes sense; 1) No cross contamination of pathogens; 2) No additional host sites for sea lice; 3) No escapes of farmed atlantic salmon and risk of successful spawning and mixing with wild stocks reducing risk of disease spread; 4) and best of all, an ability to market farmed salmon as an environmentally friendly product.

The real reason the Salmon Farming industry hasn't embraced closed containment is a simple avoidance of adding additional operating cost along with the cost of switching over from one technology which they already have considerable investment to another where they would have to re-tool.

In the end, no amount of science will change the Salmon Farming Industry - they are over invested in maintaining the status quo. Money talks, period. The real changes to this industry will come only if the North American public stop buying farmed salmon raised in open containment systems. Eliminate the demand and you create the impetus for change. Without that the status quo will be maintained.

So the real key to change is an economic shift in demand for closed containment raised salmon.