Impacts of Salmon Farming in BC

[reddnec]

Listen if we move towards veggie based diets we solve problems like this. Do we need fish in our diets?

[Tyfudd]

@reddnec We don't, but fish are an abundant and extremely healthy resource. We are still designed to get a lot of nutritional value from meat and animal by products (such as eggs). Evolution hasn't made us herbivores yet.

[klicky2]

What a load of Bullshit! This video is financed by your local Commercial fishery association. Without farmed salmon you would all be paying three to five times what we pay today.

[TheCannonofMohammed]

What about dogs? Dogs eat and eat and all they do is bark and poop and the "greens" say its OK. And cats? Do you know how many birds house cats kill each year? But that is ok with the greens.  Yet all of a sudden they (greens) have their panties in a bunch because honest men and women are trying to farm salmon. Well, I'm not buying it.

[bimmjim]

The salmon farming industry lies about how much feed it takes to grow one kilo of farmed salmon. The truth is that the salmon farming industry kills about 10 kilograms of living marine biomass to grow one kilo of farmed salmon. This figure includes by catch and compares wet weight to wet weight.

[Folkboat11]

@bimmjim Much of the fish meal going to farmed fish feed comes from by-products of fish caught for human consumption going back into growing fish for human consumption. Your fcr rate is a misinformed lie. BTW 40% of the worlds fish meal goes to farming fish. 60% goes to cattle, pigs, chickens, and you cat fluffy. Check out the fcr rates on these before pointing your finger at fish farmers.

[bimmjim]

@Folkboat11 I have heard fish farm advertising that claims “It takes as little as 1.5 kg of feed to produce 1 kg of farmed salmon.” This is comparing wet weight of salmon to dry weight of feed and does not include by catch or the damage done to the ocean ecosystems around the farm. Your term “Much of,” is not a percentage.

I am not a cat nor am I fluffy.

[Folkboat11]

@bimmjim "comparing wet weight of salmon to dry weight of feed" will also apply to the 60% of fish meal that is fed to cattle, pigs, chickens, and your cat fluffy and the damage done to ecosystems around those farms. Therefore I am sure you can do the math on what you have read. Looks alot worse, but salmon still come out with the best fcr's.

[Folkboat11]

For the impacts of envronmentalist creationists in BC Google"A charity with plenty of very long tentacles".

"They are de facto political organizations in B.C.," he says. "They're distorting the balance of power where a few people control these huge amounts of money that flow in from the U.S." And, he believes the growing impact of environmental groups is only hurting British Columbia's economic potential".

[Folkboat11]

So, it's clear this "scare" was a trumped up tactic to try to scare the consumer away from a healthy food source - farm-raised salmon. Just shows Morton is wrong. the only thing Morton said that is true, " I dont have a great set of credentials." I cant wait to see what her next tactic will be.

[Moldovawineimporter]

@Folkboat11 I think your correct, the one thing in this video that was said correct was fish farming threatens the commercial fishery !

Those commercial fishing bastards would kill every last salmon given the chance .

Alaska cooked up the scam long ago wild salmon are better and more healthy to eat than farmed salmon to scare off consumers from buying the farmed salmon.

Has anyone died from eating farmed Salmon, No!

The corruption with in the commercial fishing industry is mind boggling !

[Alaskrab]

Fish farming poses no threat to Alaska's commercial fisheries.

[Folkboat11]

@Alaskrab According to 2010 in-season estimates PWSAC salmon accounted for 72 percent of the ex-vessel value of the Sound’s common property salmon fisheries.

• According to preliminary 2009 data PWSAC salmon accounted for 64 percent of the ex-vessel value of the Sound’s common property salmon fisheries.

• Nearly 51 million PWSAC salmon were harvested in the Sound’s common property salmon fishery in 2010.

[Moldovawineimporter]

@Alaskrab I know that !

The corrupt greedy Alaska commercial fishery is scard shitless of this fish farming so they spend millions of tax payers money to slander the salmon farming industry with all kinds of lies .

I'm all for salmon farming and against all commercial fishing of natural stocks of salmon ..

[Alaskrab]

Brilliant. You're obviously an expert. Ha.

[Alaskrab]

@Folkboat11 What are your credentials?

[Folkboat11]

It's 2010.

British Columbia had record returns of pink salmon last year (2009)

This year (2010) BC has record returns of sockeye salmon (highest return in 100 years) and great returns of pink and King salmon also.

[Folkboat11]

Up to 41% of the salmon that Alaska exports has been raised in plastic trays, fed pellets, held in open net pens for up to 12 months, then released into the wild. Alaska farms up to 1.5 billion salmon each year to sustain their fake wild salmon fishery. Do we realy know what we are getting with a "Wild Packed Salmon" ?

[Alaskrab]

If you actually go to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's website, go to the commercial fisheries section, and then go to the salmon section, you can see the REAL stats for yourself. Only about 1\4 of Alaska's salmon that are harvested are born in hatcheries and spend 11 weeks in their net pens for fresh water imprinting before they're released into the wild. And the vast majority of these fish are from Prince William Sound and Southeast. Look at a map, Alaska has a lot more coastline.

[ScopedOUT2]

I have sad news for everyone. The $ is God in most people's eyes. They worship it as if it will respond to their calls and give them good life. These money-hungry people are not only empty at heart, but they're evil in nature. They believe that by gaining more money, they gain more power and fill this emptiness in their hearts. It's the same as a depressed fool who's an alcoholic. Once he's sober, reality sets in and too escape it he drinks again as the greedy one collects money at all costs.

[kilx81]

youtube.com/user/MarineHarvest­Canada

go annoy this guy he has a responsibility for this

[ScopedOUT2]

@kilx81 OK I bothered him, then what?

[TheCarvalc]

get rid of salmon farming in BC now. its killing wild salmon!

[gizliliman1]

dont buy farmed fish.

[TheCannonofMohammed]

Is this true? I thought salmon farming would protect, not harm, native stocks. This is not good! Man, do people know about this???

[madcapper6]

Strong argument to never buy farm-raised salmon under any circumstances. Not only is it damaging to the wild stock, it has unhealthy amounts of PCBs. The consumer holds the key to wiping out the farmed salmon industry.

For reasons I haven't discovered yet, according to the Environmental Defense Fund website, the same negatives don't apply to farmed rainbow trout and steelhead.

[madscirat]

Sadly our population is huge and trying not to damage the environment for us is sort of like a giant trying to tiptoe through a school yard without crushing any kindergartners.

I have two rxns to nearly all environmental topics. First, if you're a breeder (three or more kids) you r the problem. Second, we need actual solutions not just sentiments.

In this case I think aquaponics is the solution. Rather than letting the ocean eat the waste we use it to fertilize plants. One stone, two birds.

[happyscorpio]

Eating farmed salmon is not very recommendable, in fact, I have read. The only one still recommended is Alaska Salmon, but as some videos prove here, there is also farming there... Ughrrr... I get my Omega 3 from pills. Sadly.

I also read Orcas are full of PCB. What do they eat? Salmon, and other fish...

It is very sad...

[15joey04]

@happyscorpio True. Also the amount of omega3 isnt what it was because of the food. causing the omega3 to end up as omega6. Russians has been critical to pcb in salmon from Norway for years. I live by the coast of N-Norway and know that Pcb are common in the fjords, due to old sins from ship-ind. and dumping of toxic waste into the sea. Just check the Norwegian state dep. for health and enviroment-sites. Sorry to say this. :(

[ronaldreika]

farmed salmon used to make me ill and i didn't know why, now i know. there selling it as a healthy food source which is a big lie. the norwegian model will decimate the last chance for salmon. only oslo has the big profits that come from such dangerous activity. kick them out, if they don't want to go, give'em a bullet in the head and feed to the salmon!!!

[levie462]

boring

[iAmDavidLougheed]

@levie462 Don't comment if you have nothing good to say.

[Mosquitamuerto]

@iAmDavidLougheed That's not the answer..Pull your head out of the sand and have look with wide open eyes. It's all about economics. We are considered to be part of a larger herd for them.Ignorance isn't the solution... Do your research.