Alaska salmon farming

This is not meant to attack Alaska, but only to educate people that most of Alaskan wild salmon is actually farmed. This is actually a good thing as farming is the most efficient way to raise salmon. Fish farms fishing wild salmon farming fish salmon farming fishfarming fish farming culture salmon

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[johnnnyk]

Thanks for that! why don't you do the same in Canada, seems like a way better solution than net penning adult salmon.

[schmarly2007]

@johnnnyk Ranching salmon just isn't as efficient as farming them. Farming has higher survival rate (95% instead of 5%), lower feed conversion rate, and controlled harvest times (all year round, instead of 2-3 months/year). Less risk by salmon not "straying" as well...and reduced bycatch due to no fishing nets etc.

Farming was developed after ranching because of the lessons learned.

[TheCannonofMohammed]

As long as the Salmon are freed at some point they are wild. It is true that in their youth they are tamed, but salmon psychologists will tell you that within one week of release they return to their wild state in emotional, spiritual and physical terms. Lets support Alaska and their work in promoting and saving our nation's most wonderful salmon!

[schmarly2007]

@TheCannonofMohammed You lost me when you started getting all "spiritual" and "emotional". Tone it down some.

[missjlkrauss]

Farming salmon is illegal in the state of Alaska. The "farms" in this video of are salmon hatcheries dedicated to maintaining the salmon population in Alaska. So, yes salmon are born at these hatcheries, but spend 95% of their lives free in the open ocean. They feed the salmon before they release them into the wild, but every Alaskan hatchery is feeding their salmon an all natural pellet that is simply dried krill and plankton. I belive you were miss informed and are now missinforming others.

[schmarly2007]

@missjlkrauss You say "farming is illegal", yet Alaska incubates eggs and feeds the fish in net pens and then kills them before they even get near a river. What is natural about that?

Oh, and the salmon feed comes from the same supplier that supplies salmon farms their feed. Your salmon feed diet guesstimate is also way off.

Who's "misinformed" (your spelling is terrible by the way)

[AquacultureAwareness]

It's now 2010!!!

We have an update for you...and it's going to blow you away. Click on our name and see what's happened since you posted this video on Alaska salmon.

[Folkboat11]

@Alaskrab Salmon Anemia? Here it is called Marine Anemia. Also there is Bacterial Kidney Disease, Loma, Setticemia, Vibrio, and IHN, ect, that is carried by free range stolks of salmon and many pacific fish species. I hope farmed salmon in Alaska are tested for these diseases prior to release as our smolts are tested prior to salt water disease free entry. also do you test your fish prior to market? We do.

[Folkboat11]

@TheCaptainQuinn Lets get Chicken, Pork, and Cattle off our land and into our Oceans!!!

[TheCaptainQuinn]

Lets get salmon farms out of our oceans and onto land!!!

[Folkboat11]

@SilversidesFishing You say "salmon farms produce less fish protein than they take from the ocean. 2 or more KG of fish meal to produce 1 kg of farmed salmon" Then "Is this how we feed a hungry planet?" Is it ok with you that Alaska farms 1.5 billion salmon a year? Raises them in plastic trays, feeds them more feed then B.C. to smolt size, while keeping them in open net pens? then release them into the wild to eat what is ment for wild salmon? If so you my be a Hypocrite.

[SilversidesFishing]

@Folkboat11 * salmon farms produce less fish protein than they take from the ocean. 2 or more KG of fish meal to produce 1 kg of farmed salmon. Is this how we feed a hungry planet? Money and greed make people do all kinds of evil. I follow truth.

I'm done here wasting my time on people who argue science and promote corporate greed.

[SilversidesFishing]

@Folkboat11 - Mortons science which has been ongoing for years has had the backing of the scientific community across the globe. Scientists and universities across the US and Canada have done their own studies too and worked with her, and the conclusions are that there is a direct link to salmon farm sea lice outbreaks and the survival of wild juvenille salmon. This data is readily available for anyone who looks. You are well trained in eluding the truth. What about the net loss of protein?

[Folkboat11]

@SilversidesFishing Do you feel the same about Mortons science?

[Folkboat11]

@SilversidesFishing 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.

[SilversidesFishing]

@Folkboat11 *just because its prescribed by a Vet doesn't make it non toxic. It still kills life other than sea lice and in areas where its used there is a large reduction in prawns and crab, their larvae get to injest these toxins.

You should be more carefull with your defamations, I have not predicted anything, I have seen the real life evidence, science, numbers etc the Doom is happening now. Harold Camping's predictions are not science based and are idiotic. ignorance of facts is for idiots

[Folkboat11]

@SilversidesFishing 1. that is exactly why it can only be used when prescribed by a veterinarian. Seems you may want to look this info up as well as alternate lice management plans used by salmon farm companies. With you doom and gloom predictions, you are sounding like Harold Camping. I am sure you are also talking about Alaska salmon farming with your "Youtube search-'Greed of Feed: what's feeding our cheap farmed salmon?'"