BC Salmon Facts TV spot - Email

Imagine if we believed everything we heard. The way we do about farmed salmon.
http://www.bcsalmonfacts.ca

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[caliguselongatus]

BCSalmoFacts "Aquaculture industry is rebuilding" Just where are they doing this? In area X which hosted the ISA disaster? No they are moving into the previously DISEASE FREE areas of XI & XII further south. ISA has already jumped from area X to XI! Area XII is home to the Torres del Paine National Park . It's land is protected but it's coast IS NOT. This is Socializing your COST and privatizing your PROFITS. Aquaculture should be made pay the total cost of their business

[BCSalmonFacts]

Hi caliguselongatus, You are referring to Chile, South America. We are BCSalmonFacts and operate in British Columbia, Canada.

[Folkboat11]

@caliguselongatus The Pacific Salmon Forum PSF - a non-biased scientific body ordered to look into the sea lice issue found that the studies Morton was citing (her own), were incorrect. Co-author Marty Krkosek agreed. Morton and Krkosek were asked to “recalibrate”. She concluded that “the survival of the pink salmon cohort was not statistically different from a reference region without salmon farms.” That’s right – no extinction. Not even a difference.

[nivekdeyrf]

Classic!

[girldare]

This ad should get an award. It's so funny!

[schmarly2007]

Hey caliguselongatus: In BC, the trigger is 3 motile/farmed fish and applies during out-migration period (March-June). Nobody waits for trigger, and the levels are usually less than one during the spring. Most of the farms out here post that information in real time on their website. I'd give you the link, but you can't give links on UTube.

[caliguselongatus]

schmarly2007: what is the louse count (gravid females, males, pre adults or combination of) that trigger a SLICE treatment on a farm out there. I don't imagin it's cheap!

[schmarly2007]

Hi caliguselongatus: I'll tell you exactly why; because someone took a picture of a little fish with a sea louse on it at about that time & everyone got all freaked out & fish farmers were made to take the "precautionary approach" by treating every farm, instead of only those farms that really needed it. In the end, it adds up to about 5.5 kg increase over 80,000 tonnes of fish - if you 'double' nearly nothing, you still get nearly nothing. And now we know it wasn't worth getting excited about.

[caliguselongatus]

schmarly2007: Why is BC Fish Health now reporting that it takes 0.14 grams/ton of SLICE to accomplish what 0.07 grams/ton 8 years ago?

[schmarly2007]

Hi caliguslongatus;

You're right, 0.14gm/ton is a very small number and it's quite common for BC farmed salmon to never require any medication at all. This is because of a couple of things;

- each fish is vaccinated to create a strong immune system

- fish are raised in very low densities and rarley touched, which means little stress

Do me a favour, say "hi" to Rita McNeill for me.....love that girl!

[caliguselongatus]

schmarly2007 that's a really interesting SLICE number 0.14gm/ton! .14 sounds like so little but like a PSA count it is not the #. What's telling is change over time. In 2003 BC reported .007gm/ton used. Today the use is 2X what was used 8 years ago. Why, what is changing? In Atlantic we started at .005 and now use .15gr/ton. We now feed SLICE to the lice and they eat it like candy. Each generation of lice is more resistant than the last. Hope you don't end up in the same mess we are in!

[jettero23]

OMG I am so ROTFLing right now! But seriously though, this was probably the funniest commercial in the history and future of the planet. Someday people will look back at this commercial and think to themselves "Ha! Uproarious! How amazing that such a short bit of comedy in commercial form could be the current essential building block of our society, in this the year 2751." And.....Just walk away. Well played sirs. Well Played.