"More than half the seafood eaten worldwide is farm-raised, but much of it fed ‘fishmeal,’ a product made from wild-caught fish."

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#Fish #Ocean #Ecosystem #FishFarming #SalmonFarming

“This is a crisis, an avoidable crisis.” First Nation leaders warn Prime Minister Mark Carney that the plan to ban ocean salmon farming in B.C. is killing jobs, blocking billions in investment and violating Indigenous rights.
#SalmonFarming #IndigenousBusiness

Bakkafrost says Scottish salmon mortality cost 42 million kroner #Bakkafrost #salmonfarming #Scotland

For years, activists said removing salmon farms would cut sea lice on wild salmon. The farms went, taking 1,500 jobs and more than $1 billion in aquaculture investment with them. New data now shows the parasite stayed and, in some years, increased.
#SalmonFarming #Aquaculture #NoSeaLice

New identity comes with a policy push to scrap B.C.’s 2029 salmon farming ban, recognize aquaculture as agriculture and grow more Canadian seafood
#CanadianSeafoodFarmers #Salmonfarming #AquacultureisAgriculture

Iceland’s salmon farms face the world’s highest tax burden #aquaculture #salmonfarming #taxation

Affordability, truth, science and the livelihoods of salmon farming communities, appears to be off the table in this collaboration of overcooked culinary egos.
#SalmonFarming #CelebrityChefs
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A ‘Marine Donut’ will be built and tested in Campbell River, but its developer says the closed-containment aquaculture system is no near-term replacement for existing ocean salmon farming in B.C.
#SalmonFarming #Aquauclture

The growing trail of bankruptcies, abandoned projects, investor losses and missed production targets shows the difference between advocating for land-based salmon farming and actually making it work.
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Muir traced some campaign tactics to B.C.’s forestry battles of the 1980s and 1990s, where retail pressure, celebrity campaigns, restaurant pledges and dramatic imagery moved environmental disputes into public and political pressure.
#SalmonFarming #BritishColumbia

“You can’t have a food security strategy and not be concerned about the fact we’re importing almost $800 million in farmed salmon last year, while you still have a policy in place that will mandate the decline in our own domestic production,” Windsor said.
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Mayor Kermit Dahl, chair of the Alliance of Resource Communities, says Ottawa has made its decision on the future of salmon farming in B.C. and must make it public, warning that further delay threatens jobs, investment and First Nations partnerships.
#SalmonFarming #Aquaculture #foodsecurity

“We have what the world wants. And for an investor, a country that respects rule of law, and a country that is reliable, that combination is pretty rare in the world, and it’s an attractive combination,” Carney told reporters in Ottawa this week.
#SalmonFarming #AquacultureisAgriculture

Kaldvík receives salmon farming licence despite unprecedented opposition #Kaldvík #salmonfarming #Seyðisfjörður

The upcoming Cold Harvest Conference brings Canada’s multi-billion-dollar seafood farming sector together as Ottawa seeks new investment, pushes domestic food production and faces a defining choice over the future of B.C. salmon farming.
#SalmonFArming #Aquaculture

Animal welfare claim launched against Tasmanian salmon industry #tassal #huon #salmonfarming

Nearly a decade after Dominic Barton’s economic council urged Canada to seize its aquaculture opportunity, his return as chair of Invest in Canada is hope that the sector finally get the policy certainty needed...
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