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The campaign to rid B.C. waters of open-net fish farms moved to Maple Ridge-Mission MLA Bob D’Eith’s office Tuesday.

A handful of members of the Wild Salmon Defenders Alliance picketed and presented a letter to D’Eith demanding that the province not renew fish-farm licences in the Broughton Archipelago, near northern Vancouver Island, when they expire in June.

https://www.mapleridgenews.com/news...-to-join-cause-to-move-fish-farms-on-to-land/
 
Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Stinging Indictment of Farmed Salmon as Food - Dr. Mercola
"If you’re aware of the health benefits of animal-based omega-3 fats and the fact that salmon is a great source, you may be shocked to discover that farmed salmon has more in common with junk food than health food. This is the grim reality revealed in Nicolas Daniel’s documentary “Fillet-Oh-Fish,” which includes exclusive footage from fish farms and factories across the globe."
Here is Dr. Mercola's summary of his article:
Story at-a-glance
· Salmon farming is a disaster both for the environment and for human health, and tests show farmed salmon is about five times more toxic than any other food tested
· In animal feeding studies, mice fed farmed salmon developed obesity and diabetes — effects researchers believe are related to toxic exposures
· Besides pesticides and antibiotics used in fish farming, the most significant source of toxic exposure is the dry pellet feed, which contains dioxins, PCBs and other toxic pollutants
· PCB concentrations in farmed salmon are, on average, eight times higher than in wild salmon
· Farmed salmon also does not have the nutritional profile of wild salmon, containing more than 5.5 times more omega-6 fat than wild salmon, which further skews rather than corrects most people’s omega-3 to omega-6 ratio.
A quote on the sewage: "Below the salmon farms dotted across the Norwegian fjords is a layer of waste some 15 meters (49.2 feet) deep."
One of the videos on the site shows that you can actually squeeze the oil out of farmed fish, and frying wild and farmed reveals that farmed fish has several more multiples of fat.
Quote: "Farmed salmon suffer less visible but equally disturbing mutations. The flesh of the farmed salmon is oddly brittle and breaks apart when bent — a highly abnormal feature. The nutritional content is also wildly abnormal. Wild salmon contain about 5 to 7 percent fat, whereas the farmed variety can contain anywhere from 14.5 to 34 percent. For a visual demonstration of this difference in fat content, check out the video above"
The fat is from the feed, particularly fish meal and fish oil, which is where the cancer-causing chemicals arrive from as well.
Quote: "Farmed and Dangerous9 provides an example of a salmon feed label, and the ingredients are very telling in terms of where these excess omega-6 fats are coming from. The first nine ingredients in Skretting’s “Winter Plus 3500″ salmon feed are poultry meal, fish meal, poultry fat, fish oil, whole wheat, soybean meal, corn gluten meal, feather meal and rapeseed oil. These are all ingredients that no wild salmon has ever encountered and is about as far from a species-appropriate diet as you can get."
Note that farmed fish are fed chicken feathers. I asked EWOS six times whether their feed contained feces, and got no response. If I were a feed manufacturer, I would want to clear up that my product contained no feces. Not EWOS. Sure leads one to think that EWOS puts feces in its fish feed.
After all, many fish farm operations around the world regularly use feces as feed. For example, tropical ones where a hog farm is built on a hill beside a pond and the hog feces are shoveled into the pond for the fish. Once the pond is full of fish feces, it is taken out and placed on the hog hill for them to eat. And so on.
Feces in farmed fish feed: 1. http://www.purezing.com/living/food_articles/living_articles_7salmon.htm. And, 2. http://www.eatthis.com/shocking-facts-about-farmed-salmon/. And, 3. https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/01/12/what-do-fish-farms-use-for-feed.aspx. And, 4. https://www.naturalnews.com/037576_farmed_seafood_animal_feces_China.html.
Google this to get a long list of articles on feces in farmed fish feed: https://www.bing.com/search?q=feces+in+farmed+fish+feed&pc=MOZD&form=MOZLBR.
Mercola also goes on to point out what poor nutrition you get from farmed salmon versus wild salmon: "In a global assessment of farmed salmon published in the January 2004 issue of Science,2 13 persistent organic pollutants were found. Farmed salmon also does not have the nutritional profile of wild salmon. Rather than being a wonderful source of much-needed omega-3 fats, farmed salmon contains far more omega-6 than omega-3, which can have deleterious health ramifications, seeing how most people are deficient in omega-3 while getting far more omega-6 than they need."
Note that this study is the Hites et al one in Science, Jan 9, 2004, that the fish farm industry, government, paid science, fake website, including in BC, etc. mounted a smear campaign to wipe out the science even though it was true. You will recall that is where I decided never to believe anything fish farms say, until I ground proof it. The David Miller article on this is here: https://fishfarmnews.blogspot.ca/2011/10/key-document-fish-farm-tactics.html.

Interesting guy this Dr Mercola. CHECK IT OUT!:

Joseph Michael Mercola (born 1954) is an alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and web entrepreneur, who markets a variety of controversial dietary supplements and medical devices through his website, Mercola.com.[1] Until 2013,[2] Mercola operated the "Dr. Mercola Natural Health Center" (formerly the "Optimal Wellness Center") in Schaumburg, Illinois.[3] He wrote the best-selling books The No-Grain Diet[4] (with Alison Rose Levy) and The Great Bird Flu Hoax. Mercola criticizes many aspects of standard medical practice, such as vaccination and what he views as overuse of prescription drugs and surgery to treat diseases. On his website mercola.com, Mercola and colleagues advocate a number of unproven alternative health notions including homeopathy, and anti-vaccine positions. Mercola is a member of the political advocacy group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons as well as several alternative medicine organizations.[5]

Mercola has been criticized by business, regulatory, medical, and scientific communities. A 2006 BusinessWeekeditorial stated his marketing practices relied on "slick promotion, clever use of information, and scare tactics."[3]In 2005, 2006, and 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Mercola and his company that they were making illegal claims of their products' ability to detect, prevent, and treat disease.[6] The medical watchdog site Quackwatch has criticized Mercola for making "unsubstantiated claims [that] clash with those of leading medical and public health organizations and many unsubstantiated recommendations for dietary supplements."[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola
 
Interesting guy this Dr Mercola. CHECK IT OUT!:

Joseph Michael Mercola (born 1954) is an alternative medicine proponent, osteopathic physician, and web entrepreneur, who markets a variety of controversial dietary supplements and medical devices through his website, Mercola.com.[1] Until 2013,[2] Mercola operated the "Dr. Mercola Natural Health Center" (formerly the "Optimal Wellness Center") in Schaumburg, Illinois.[3] He wrote the best-selling books The No-Grain Diet[4] (with Alison Rose Levy) and The Great Bird Flu Hoax. Mercola criticizes many aspects of standard medical practice, such as vaccination and what he views as overuse of prescription drugs and surgery to treat diseases. On his website mercola.com, Mercola and colleagues advocate a number of unproven alternative health notions including homeopathy, and anti-vaccine positions. Mercola is a member of the political advocacy group Association of American Physicians and Surgeons as well as several alternative medicine organizations.[5]

Mercola has been criticized by business, regulatory, medical, and scientific communities. A 2006 BusinessWeekeditorial stated his marketing practices relied on "slick promotion, clever use of information, and scare tactics."[3]In 2005, 2006, and 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Mercola and his company that they were making illegal claims of their products' ability to detect, prevent, and treat disease.[6] The medical watchdog site Quackwatch has criticized Mercola for making "unsubstantiated claims [that] clash with those of leading medical and public health organizations and many unsubstantiated recommendations for dietary supplements."[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mercola

agree....Dr. Mercola does look to be over the top on his opinions.
 
So I am curious fogged in, why did you post this if that's how you feel?
Hi Dave
The Dr. Mercola article was sent to me by a friend. I didn't research his background.
I only discovered that Dr. Mercola was considered by some as a quack.after Birdsnest pointed it out.
Clearly the post was Dr. Mercola's opinion right, wrong or indifferent, but worth a read.
Not the first time in my opinion that I have seen a post on Fish Farms that may have come from a quack!
 
They put together a decent letter

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-chefs-pen-letter-to-government-to-stop-salmon-farming

B.C. chefs ask government to stop open net salmon farming

Re: Protect B.C.’s wild salmon by ending fish farm tenures this spring Dear Ministers Donaldson and Popham,

We are professional chefs for whom the oceans continue to be the source of clean, nutritious food that we are proud to serve to our clients.

For thousands of years, salmon have been a sacred gift to Indigenous people living on countless rivers emptying into the Pacific Ocean. As chefs, we believe wild salmon are the highest quality for taste and nutrition and should be a priority for protection and restoration.

Sadly, all along the West Coast, pressures from rising human populations, urban development, agricultural use, logging, mining and dams have extinguished salmon in hundreds of river systems. Salmon in the oceans are in trouble from overfishing, dead zones from agricultural runoff, islands of waste plastic, acidification from dissolved carbon dioxide and open-net pen salmon aquaculture operations along their migration routes.

As chefs, we believe we should be doing everything in our power to give wild salmon a fighting chance.

An important immediate first step is to not renew the leases of the 20 open net-pen salmon farms situated in the Broughton Archipelago region opposed by First Nations and up for renewal beginning in June. These farms put millions of Atlantic salmon right in the path of the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon.

The science is clear: these farms host parasites and viruses, amplify these harmful contagions and spread them to wild fish, compounding the other threats salmon face. Net-pens send plumes of waste, antibiotics, pathogens and anti-lice neurotoxins into coastal waters. These farms, their foreign salmon and their contaminants have no place among vulnerable wild salmon populations. We are also concerned that parasites and disease from open net-pens may be affecting non-salmonid species, some of which we serve to the public. Farmed Atlantic salmon often show tumours, lesions and abnormalities. How safe are they?

We believe aquaculture will be an important contributor to fulfilling global demands for seafood into the future. But it must be done with care and forethought. As we see things now, raising non-native salmon in open net-pens in B.C. waters is unsustainable in the long term and poses a significant threat to the survival of the wild salmon we all care about. There is a solution at hand. Norwegian and Scottish companies are working hard to come up with ways to better


manage parasites and disease, protecting their wild fish. They are designing “closed” systems that can be situated in the water or on land to isolate farmed fish from the wild and limit exposure of farmed fish to pathogens.

We therefore call on the government to defend and restore wild Pacific salmon by taking the following actions without delay:

· Do not renew or issue new tenures in the territories of First Nations where there is no agreement by affected First Nations to allow farms to operate there;

· Do not renew or issue any new tenures for fish farms anywhere on this coast until we fully understand impacts associated with pathogen transfer from farmed fish to wild fish;

· Freeze production levels at all remaining open net-pens, and do not renew their licences or tenures when they expire;

· Bring about measures to incentivize a swift transition away from open net-pen fish farms to closed-containment farms either in the sea or on land; and,

· Assess the status of all B.C. wild salmon populations and their habitats, and implement rebuilding plans for at-risk stocks, as prescribed under Canada’s Policy for the Conservation of Wild Pacific Salmon.

In the meantime, we urge our fellow chefs to serve only wild or hard-container-grown salmon to customers.

Together, we can ensure wild salmon is available well into the future.
 
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B.C. government releases advisory council report on finfish aquaculture
Moratorium on new fish farm tenures will remain while government reviews report’s recommendations
Alistair Taylor
Apr. 5, 2018
https://www.surreynowleader.com/new...visory-council-report-on-finfish-aquaculture/
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...ure-s-advisory-council-on-finfish-aquaculture
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...on-finfish-aquaculture/maacfa-meeting-records

Have u had a chance to read the 200 page report yet?
 
Fish farm moratorium to remain in place
Salmon farmers say recommendation requiring First Nation consent is ‘unworkable’
By Nelson Bennett | April 5, 2018
https://biv.com/article/2018/04/fish-farm-moratorium-remain-place

Not surprised that they are complaining about it but it's the way it's going to be in the future so if they want to stay in business they better pay the First Nations or leave. Recreational fishing I believe will be going the same way, First Nations will be managing it and will be paying them for access to fish for salmon.
 
These reports are defiantly worth a review


MAACFA Meeting Records

As part of the activities conducted by the Minister of Agriculture's Advisory Council on Finfish Aquaculture (MAACFA), the Minister and MAACFA Council members held meetings with industry stakeholders and interested parties to address concerns.

The Council met 12 times between July 2016 and January 2018 during which it was provided background on salmon farming (regulatory regime, operational arrangements, and research and health developments) and diverse presentations on finfish aquaculture issues. The meeting minutes and presentations are provided below.

Minutes
Presentations
First Nations
Scientists and Veterinarians
Aquaculture Industry and Certification
 
I just randomly selected a PDF of the Minutes. Read through it quickly but 1 sentence really jumped out at me....


'the presentation concluded that where juvenile salmonids migrate through areas of concentrated fish farms in southwestern British Columbia, there have been large scale collapses over many different selected species and populations.'
 
I've spent now over 6 hours reading it all between last night and today.

There are a few things that I think will most likely happen. Fish farms in the discover passage will most likely be greatly reduced, especially in areas where First Nations don't want them. High concentrations of fish farms are worrisome because they have a higher likelihood of spreading viruses/disease/sea lice.

Overall fish farms pose some risk to wild salmon, It's like the Seal debate really, They pose some risk but are not the smoking gun or biggest reason for decline of wild salmon.

The Pacific Salmon Foundation Blames it all on Climate change and basically says no one wants to acknowledge that climate change and warming water temperature is the leading cause. Also that no ones seems to want to acknowledge human impacts Urban Development/Logging/Stream degradation ect..

Also says it's hard to look at trends because we have been destroying salmon habitat, cutting hatchery funding/production and cutting wild salmon harvests all at a similar rate.

Where do I personally stand in all this? I think we need to be looking at moving salmon farms to land in the future, have the government subsidies that move and Immediate look at removing fish farms in areas like the discovery passage.
 
If we want to keep eating fish we need to farm it — responsibly

by JEREMY DUNN
Jeremy Dunn is executive director of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association.

http://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-...ep-eating-fish-we-need-to-farm-it-responsibly

I do wonder what kind of pressure would be put on our wild salmon if fish farms were gone from BC tomorrow.

"More than half the fish humans eat globally is farmed. In B.C., an average of 70 per cent of the salmon harvested each year comes from farms. Imagine for a moment what would happen to wild fish if our farms disappeared. We’d either have to stop eating fish or would quickly wipe out B.C.’s already-pressured wild-salmon runs."
 
More misdirection and fear-mongering from Dunn - which is what he gets paid to do.

The TACs of the commercial fisheries have NOTHING to do wrt FF output...
 
AA, do you think people would start eating 70% less salmon if farms were gone? If not, and people decided they still would like to eat salmon but because farms are gone it must be wild, which wild salmon stocks do you see being fished to make up this shortfall?
 
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