Science: Alexandra Morton's Salmon Fight

Alexandra Morton, a self-trained biologist, has been battling fish farms in British Columbia that she says are endangering wild salmon runs.

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[Folkboat11]

@nuffzed lets not forget. . The average yearly per capita intake of PCBs has been estimated to be about 30 nanograms from farmed salmon, 199 from pork, 306 from milk, 716 from poultry, and 2,401 from beef. When it comes to mercury, wild Alaskan halibut contains about 25 times as much as farmed salmon and tuna contains about 33 times as much! So if farmed salmon isn't high in contaminants, why do environmental organizations say that it is?

[klicky2]

Hmmm? I wonder who pays Morton to come up with this bs.

[Folkboat11]

It is a good thing " Vivian Krause' is in to research. Look for her interviews on Youtube. American foundations have payed over $90 million to promote so called wild Alaskan over farmed. Millions of that money went to so-called grassroots protests in western Canada. Why didn't these foundations put any money to enviromental action in the Gulf of Mexico, on the eastren seaboard or the Alaskan coast? Perhaps American born Morton may have been better off watching her own waters.

[Folkboat11]

@9george2x Is the Alaska so called wild fishery any better? Now I may know why you have to bash salmon farming. Is it to hide you Alaska farmed salmon? Want Wild? Alaska Seafood Processing creates dead zones

September 28, 2011

Trident Seafoods Corp. to Pay $2.5 Million to Resolve Clean Water Act Violations and Spend More Than $30 Million to Upgrade Processing PlantsSettlement to reduce discharges of seafood... They should have followed Canada's strict regulations long ago.

[9george2x]

Volk boat.

You are switching bait here. We were discussing whether there is salmon farming in Alaska. You never provided a cite that there is net pen raised salmon in Alaska for 12 months. Isn't.

Now you switch to whether aquaculture is bad. I prefer scientific citations. The Anchorage Daily News does not fact check many of their stories I have read.

This is not to say aquaculture is problem free. But no one before has tried to prove that salmon aqua. is bad for wild salmon. Give me details.

[Folkboat11]

@9george2x Its obvious you do not know how to Google "Alaska Salmon Ranching". When you do learn how to google check out Anchorage Daily News,

"Are hatchery salmon killing off herring in Prince William Sound?"

"Aquaculture salmon go to sea, not living in a pen" may not be such a good thing.

[9george2x]

I hate to tell you this Volkboat but you do not know what you are talking about and are mixed up about what aquaculture and salmon farming are.

Just because the fry are raised in a hatchery does not mean they are held in net pens. You have provided no reference about your claim they spend a year in a net pen. The obvious reason is it is a figment of your imagination and there is no documentation for something that does not exist.

Aquaculture salmon go to sea, not living in a pen.

[Folkboat11]

@9george2x Back to shouting to be heard I see. Aquaculture is just that. Culture = Farming. And yes Alaska does hold salmon in open net pens for up to 12 months. Tell the buyers of Alaska salmon the truth. 41% of Alaska salmon are cultured. Once again Google "Alaska Salmon Ranching".