Peahead
Well-Known Member
Good to see a feature about sustainable salmon farming using closed containment ( land based ) salmon farming practices. Global TV News Hour featured the piece on how Overwaite/Save On Foods has 'gone green' by offering only sustainably farmed salmon. The Washington state based company, Sweat Spring Salmon, is providing the grocery chain with coho salmon farmed in a closed containment facility. The feature also showed customers at the store being educated about closed containment farming and how the process protects from damaging the environment and wild salmon (as it does with open net pen farming in the ocean). Save On Foods also pointed out that the price their customers pay for this sustainably farmed salmon was exactly the same as the ocean net pen raised fish. This is a big plus as consumers have no reason not to buy it if the salmon is the same price !! The Susuki Foundation anounced on the news feature that they will provide funding to those salmon farms in BC that would like to do testing of this sustainable farming. 
I figure if consumers insist only on buying sustainably farmed salmon, open net pen farming will eventually cease to exist even if government doesn't mandate it.
I figure if consumers insist only on buying sustainably farmed salmon, open net pen farming will eventually cease to exist even if government doesn't mandate it.
