Those Atlantics look just like the farmed rainbow trout you buy in a store or the steelhead we used to farm in saltwater.
This is a real big stink, driven by media. The industry as been around for 40 years and this isn't there there first or biggest drop to the ocean. Nothing was said when AQS dropped pens and pens of salmon in the 90's.
People make a mountain out of a hill
Wild Salmon Advocates Protest Fish Farms Outside of DFO Offices
‘We have a sacred relationship with this fish.’
By Emilee Gilpin Yesterday | TheTyee.ca
https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/08/24/protect_salmon/
i'm not a fish farm guy nor do i make a "few bucks" from the industry, this is your opinion and your entitled to it. it does prove my point tho, the media has instilled this opinion because nothing can be proven by people that have spent a large portion of money from DFO to study farming and have come up with nothing other than "least polluting farmed protein source". people out there have opinions i get it, but also 99% of them have never set foot on a pen system..... again like last year its August the most stressful month on farms, i cant believe no disease videos yet......Somebody has to care about this abuse of our natural salmon and these legitimate threats to our wild salmon. It matters Bones. Just because you fish farm guys are making a few bucks exploiting our resources and spreading your disease doesn;t mean we have to agree with your tripe.
I am really getting sick of the 'nothing to see here' line you guys spew. Its filth, the industry is filth, the meat is total crap.....get them out of the ocean once and for all.
I think the keyword in your post is "idea". Particularly since clos d containment salmon farms haven't had much success. Here in bc the nagmis closed containment operation is looking for additional investors after 4 or 5 years of production.More people overtime are supporting the idea that concerned citizens' time is well spent working to get these unsustainable, chemically dependant, salmon feedlots out of the marine environment and onto the land where their negative environmental impacts can be better contained and managed!
I think the keyword in your post is "idea". Particularly since clos d containment salmon farms haven't had much success. Here in bc the nagmis closed containment operation is looking for additional investors after 4 or 5 years of production.
You missed the point. It was the idea that more people over time are coming against net pen salmon feedlots, not the use of land based fish farms. The practice of land based fish farms will improve over time and become the better, less harmful method to raise farmed fish. Just a matter of time.
I think you are right, BN - there are many reasons why the current form of open net-cage Atlantic aquaculture is unsustainable - thanks for pointing that out!Do you fellas think closed containment really has a chance. With all the efforts to vilifie the product. The actual flesh with massive campaigns about pcbs and fats and feed sources. None of that changes in closed containment yet it misteriously becomes a none issue when claiming it to be the solution.
It's a pretty hypocritical position to have on the issue and it isn't going to making closed containment farmed salmon any more attractive to the concerned citizen consumer.
I know the response. It's always well it's better than in the ocean. But you prefer your free range chicken and free Range grass fed beef. The argument of closed containment from this perspective is week for the reasons I mention and your not fooling every one however some people will fall for it.