http://blog.seattlepi.com/candacewh...reason-not-to-consume-these-farm-raised-fish/
some of those numbers are pretty shocking:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada reports that between 1996 and 2008, fish farmers killed 3,239 harbour seals and 7,678 Steller’s sea lions. Sometimes, the salmon farm nets themselves kill wildlife. In 2007, 51 sea lions got tangled in nets and drowned at a single farm.”
Now I know some people are less concerned about the deaths of seals and sea lions, but they are a part of the ecosystem and as I learned recently, their predation on mature coho at river mouths actually increases the survival of the fry which are being eaten by the coho as they exit into the ocean.
Seals and sea lions eat mature fish. It is a shame to lose a fish to one but they are an important part of the whole system. So why can fish farms shoot them and sport fishermen can't? personally I think neither should be able to. Just think, it wouldn't be a problem with closed containment pens, imagine a sea lion crawling across the ground to get to one!
some of those numbers are pretty shocking:
Fisheries and Oceans Canada reports that between 1996 and 2008, fish farmers killed 3,239 harbour seals and 7,678 Steller’s sea lions. Sometimes, the salmon farm nets themselves kill wildlife. In 2007, 51 sea lions got tangled in nets and drowned at a single farm.”
Now I know some people are less concerned about the deaths of seals and sea lions, but they are a part of the ecosystem and as I learned recently, their predation on mature coho at river mouths actually increases the survival of the fry which are being eaten by the coho as they exit into the ocean.
Seals and sea lions eat mature fish. It is a shame to lose a fish to one but they are an important part of the whole system. So why can fish farms shoot them and sport fishermen can't? personally I think neither should be able to. Just think, it wouldn't be a problem with closed containment pens, imagine a sea lion crawling across the ground to get to one!