It's going the way I figured it'd go 4-5 years ago - politically. As I posted at: https://sportfishingbc.com/conversations/congratulations.96716/#convMessage-128178DiCaprio's take on open-net salmon farms met with disagreement
Several groups respond with dissatisfaction to Leonardo DiCaprio's take on 'open-net salmon farms' in B.C., on social media.vancouver.citynews.ca
Paid off by govt or paid off by fish farms. Pick your poison.The transition plan will be that the farms stay where there is FN support . They are setting themselves up for a major payout if the gov closes them...... bur the way ths liberals are throwing around billions.... who knows.
Some rather obvious disingenuous half-truths & misdirection in that document in just a cursory look and critique:Someone had to post this ...
https://seawestnews.com/mega-science-review-showcases-the-realities-of-salmon-farming-in-bc/
You never even mention the 51 million per year that these five nations are getting, where is that evident? Would that not be like a million or more per family after 20 years? There is no money trail at all.Some rather obvious disingenuous half-truths & misdirection in that document in just a cursory look and critique:
P.1-10 Fig. 5: "Prior to transfer fish are screened for potential diseases". Prior to transfer fish are screened for some CFIA-acknowledged reportable diseases, but not PRv & Tenacibaculum & other disease vectors; and even the presence of PRv doesn't disqualify from stocking them out in the very open net-pens, neither. That was the basis of these court actions:
P.1-11 Fig. 6, Seawater Pens Points 8 thru 13. They only look after FARMED fish health not the adjacent WILD salmon; and all those wonderful records are protected by the Privacy Act, apparently - as far as DFO is concerned.
P.1-12: "Very little is known about the mechanisms that control Pacific salmon abundances in the ocean". OMFG! Maybe the BCSFA doesn't know much - doesn't mean the rest of us are as disinterested and uninformed. No talk about Ocean Survival Rates and how the ONP industry affects this neither.
P.1-17: "It takes about 1.15 to 1.2 kilograms of feed to produce 1 kilogram of farm-raised salmon". It takes about 1.15 to 1.2 kilograms of DRY feed made up of ~4.5 kg of WET feed products to produce 1 kilogram of WET farm-raised salmon.
P.1-18: "Once operational, farms must follow all laws to protect fish, fish habitat and wildlife.". Except of course DFO doesn't force them to protect critical nearshore rearing habitat for juvenile salmon - something that Cohen forced on them in the Discovery Islands.
Only 18 pages in and I've had enuff of this PR piece. You get the idea, anyways.
It guess you could argue that they, the Icelandic, have been the stewards of the salmon there, even if only for just over 1000 years.
Bit of a Pandora's box there, as well. Short version: Yes and yes. Roughly double or more the contaminants in farmed fish on average:It guess you could argue that they, the Icelandic, have been the stewards of the salmon there, even if only for just over 1000 years.
Has anyone ever tested salmon from the store for toxins? Or other impurities that would not be found in wild salmon?
I read the contamination report.Bit of a Pandora's box there, as well. Short version: Yes and yes. Roughly double or more the contaminants in farmed fish on average:
Risk-Based Consumption Advice for Farmed Atlantic and Wild Pacific Salmon Contaminated with Dioxins and Dioxin-like Compounds
We reported recently that several organic contaminants occurred at elevated concentrations in farmed Atlantic salmon compared with concentrations of the same contaminants in wild Pacific salmon [Hites et al. Science 303:226–229 (2004)]. We also ...www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov