Salmon Farming Article

[Barbender]

http://www.financialpost.com/Salmon+farm+battle+about+competition/3167822/story.html

 

[Little Hawk]

Link don't work Barbie.

"Some could care less if there's any fish left for our kids!"

 

[Barbender]

Hopefully this will work better.

http://www.financialpost.com/news/Salmon+farm+battle+about+competition/3167822/story.html

 

[chris73]

Couldn't have said it better (from an unamed commenter):

quote:"In tight quarters it makes sense that lice might breed more actively in fish farms, says Robert Scott McKinley, UBC’s Canada Research Chair for Aquaculture and the Environment. *But there is no evidence that it’s a problem, he says, or that it’s being transferred to wild salmon. Testing the hypothesis is possible with the right research; it just hasn’t been done.* "

Wow. Is that really what Robert said? I'd like to see the actual quotation. The weight of peer-reviewed evidence that salmon-farm bred sea lice are killing wild stocks has caused the weight-of-evidence scales not just to tip but to hit the floor. See: Ford JS, Myers RA (2008) A global assessment of salmon aquaculture impacts on wild salmonids. PLoS Biol 6(2): e33. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060033.

See also Krkosek M, Ford JS, Morton A, Lele S, Myers RA, Lewis MA. Declining wild salmon populations in relation to parasites from farm salmon. Science. 2007 Dec 14;318(5857):1772-5.

And L. Neil Frazer. Sea-Cage Aquaculture, Sea Lice, and Declines of Wild Fish. Conservation Biology, 2008; DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01128.x.

And Hutchinson P, editor (2006) Interactions between aquaculture and wild stocks of Atlantic salmon and other diadromous fish species. Proceedings of an ICES/NASCO Symposium held in Bergen, Norway, 18–21 October 2005. ICES J Mar Sci 637).

Read more: http://www.financialpost.com/news/S...+competition/3167822/story.html#ixzz0rbfzCAV2

quote:This is quite rich. Those poor salmon farmers! You mean the BC Salmon Farmer's Association, who hired the PR firm of Hill & Knowlton (inventors of the Tobacco Institute) to spin their goof-ups? The ones who refused to release data on diseases on their farms in 2006, even though doing so is in the public interest, as there is no pathogen barrier between net-pen farms and wild stocks of salmon, herring and other wild fish:

“Mainstream flatly submits that it will not supply similar information when it
is in the public interest that similar information continues to be supplied.
Mainstream does not explicitly say there is no authority under which it may be
compelled to provide data for the audit.”

“Marine Harvest submits there are “no regulations or laws” which require it
to release the information it gives to Ministry veterinarians or designates during
on-site visits. It states that release of the requested information would result in
Mainstream no longer supplying the requested information”

“Grieg Seafoods contends there is no statutory requirement that allows
the collection of audit data and that it only provides data on the understanding
the data would be kept confidential. It states it will no longer submit the data if
the applicant#8223;s access request is granted”

“Creative Salmon argues that it provides audit information on a voluntary
basis and if the applicant’s access request is granted it will “immediately cease
to volunteer further information to the Ministry”

Read more: http://www.financialpost.com/news/S...+competition/3167822/story.html#ixzz0rbgB4tua

 

[cuttlefish]

You didn't post the other FP column, Barbender. The one by the columnist Terence Corcoran, This science is fishy, June 18. I'm not sure you left that one off your post on purpose because it was so poorly investigated. If so, good on ya. Oh, well, here's today's letters to the editor from the scientists that Corcoran misinformed the FP readers about. http://www.financialpost.com/Fish+science/3193858/story.html http://www.financialpost.com/Fish+science/3193857/story.html
Considering that Libin's article was published in the same rag, it is likely the same level of junk journalism.