Thousands of 10-pound Atlantic salmon, catch as many as you want!

Birdsnest said: ↑
As a certified fish pathologist, I’m continually surprised at the way news reports on Atlantic salmon and their focus on the biased fears of the “Wild Fish Conservancy.” Editors then bury important facts deep in the articles.
http://www.redmond-reporter.com/letters/fear-of-farmed-salmon-letter/
Dave said
Jeez man, what the hell does he know? Sweet

Great to see Birdsnest and Dave posting again
Do you think we should be testing Fish Farm Atlantics for PVR
“Both fish farms and fish processing facilities must monitor fish and fish blood for disease. So why is it legal to discharge bloodwater that contains PRV, despite the fact that it has been linked to HSMI?
PRV and HSMI are not listed as reportable diseases under the Act.
So it appears that under the current regulations, it is legal to discharge fish processing water that contains instances of this virus.”
 
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The fish he is holding in the picture is no where near the 10lbers that were supposed to be released. It looks like its half that at best, so maybe an escapee from elsewhere? Nevertheless this release by Cook, its lame excuses relating to the eclipse, and now fish showing up way up the skagit river in the long term is a blessing in the fight against these Fish farms. It seems to be spurring political action in Washington state, even from republicans. Any acts the farms commit against the environment need to be publicized to the maximum possible degree, as ultimately science isn't whats going to win the day, public and political perception are. Lets hope the politicians in WA keep up what they are doing and decline to renew the leases, and send Cooke packing back to New Brunswick. let them do as they please in Atlantic Canada, Maine and Scotland, but not on the west coast!
 
california said:
The fish he is holding in the picture is no where near the 10lbers that were supposed to be released. It looks like its half that at best, so maybe an escapee from elsewhere? Nevertheless this release by Cook, its lame excuses relating to the eclipse, and now fish showing up way up the skagit river in the long term is a blessing in the fight against these Fish farms. It seems to be spurring political action in Washington state, even from republicans. Any acts the farms commit against the environment need to be publicized to the maximum possible degree, as ultimately science isn't whats going to win the day, public and political perception are. Lets hope the politicians in WA keep up what they are doing and decline to renew the leases, and send Cooke packing back to New Brunswick. let them do as they please in Atlantic Canada, Maine and Scotland, but not on the west coast!
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Good eyes, California.

In every net pen - the most aggressive and usually what ends up being the largest fish - are on the top when feed is slung either by a person or pneumatically - and they tend to deny adequate food to the less aggressive fish lower down. It can be a production loss - since the fillet machines can only process a certain sized fish at the plant. Smaller fish tend to get overfilleted - and not fit for sale. The key and the trick is to get enough feed down to the runts - but also not waste feed - which is a large production cost - and excess feed impacts the bottom when it rots.

Grading, however - also has it's costs both wrt time and personnel costs - and stress to the fish. So, grading sometimes is omitted - esp. when water temperatures warm-up.

So, unless the pen is occasionally graded - one ends up with runts like this - in addition to the 10lbrs.
 
Lmao, have you been on a farm? Now your an ace on how its done, lol. Do they just forget to count them too? Have you seem the latest grading techniques?
 
bones said:
More childish comments, why dont you look it up instead?
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Can you show me what's childish about my comment?
Seems pretty truthful to me.
Sorry if the truth hurts.
 
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Do you think that company has any concern for the native wild salmon in that area? Their only concern is how bad those fish look in the supermarket when they're covered in lice and lice holes. That and how fat their wallet is.
That company needed a grant? Another taxpayer handout that won't be repaid? More corporate welfare? Their fish are diseased and full of lice and they just got the public to pay for a bandaid fix on a festering wound. Do they not have their own money? lots of money changing hands between the government and the FF industry at, yet again taxpayer's expense.
Is this warm water bandaid fix on a festering wound you and I paid for so that top .1 percent multi-millionaire with billions of dollars in sales didn't have to take it out of his own pocket going to make prv and hsmi and all those other nice virus's and diseases that get passed on to our wild fish due to open net pen "technology", magically disappear?

If they had an ounce of concern at all for our wild salmon they wouldn't be dumping their virus and disease laden effluent directly in the path of our migrating smolts and salmon... That was the point I was making with the bloodwater pipe.
 
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