Fish Farms Sea Lice and the Broughton Archipelago

Alexandra Morton discuses the ramifications of fish farms placed on wild salmon migration routes in the Broughton Archipelago

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News & Politics

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• Fish Farms
• Salmon
• Broughton Archipelago
• Sea Lice
• British
• ColumbiaGreenpeace
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• livingoceans

[cradel3]

John Fredriksen, once known as the richest man in Norway and the owner of the largest tanker fleet in the world is a major shareholder of Marine Harvest which lists itself as the largest salmon fish farm company in the world. Even Fredriksen, an avid fisherman said that fish farms should not be placed near wild salmon habitat

[cradel3]

Studies done by who? The DFO, the tobacco industry, Any Omega benefit is likely negated by the toxic stew of chemicals and carcinogens found in these salmon. Check the US Environmental Protection Agencies guide lines for consuming this salmon

[crampedu2]

Gotcha, but perhaps you start suing, you should know that over 50% of the fishmeal caught in the world actually goes toward chickens and pigs - not salmon and other fish - and salmon is the most efficient converter of fish meal to edible protein. So why all the fuss about salmon farming?...politics and de-marketing, that's why.

[TheMyfancypants]

So you think sports fishing isn't detrimental to wild fish. Limited users some getting rich off a resource that supposedly belongs to everyone. ie Bob Wright I have personally seen sports fishermen take two to three times their daily limit. Guess wiping out the blueback in Campbell River a few years back didn't effect the mature coho stocks huh ?

[T00ms1]

@LiveVegan other animal species are not equivalent to humans, sorry. It's not immoral to eat meat.

[spencSNC]

@crampedu2

Dude thats exactly it...its sad how people dont bother doing reaserch for themselves. You could almost argue that the media(tv news reports, and journals) are a horrible source for information due to them not caring about the truth but more about ratings. Honestly people you cant belive everything you hear...look up information its all over the web, just sometimes its harder to find due the the media controling it. Look at both sides of the argument. You'll learn more that way!

[Garrys300]

and yesterday all her babblings were proven to be just that .....empty babbling ,by a group of real biologists.. good luck in your new career as a welfare bum ms. morton

[crampedu2]

It's 2010!! More record returns of wild salmon in British Columbia. Ohh, and right next to fish farms too. Hahahaha. Boneheads.

[Alaskrab]

@crampedu2

[raibowtroutmonger]

If u want to find something - you will. It likes if i said we have no healthy people, we have not good seeking deseases doctors.

[crampedu2]

Record return of pink salmon to this area in the fall of 2009. So this lady's "sky is falling" prediction never came true...still waiting for her apology...hahah...did she get her diploma on the back of a cereal box?

[crampedu2]

@KatMays379 You have farmed and wild feed conversions backward. It takes about 1.5 pounds of fish meal/oil to produce 1 pound of farm-raised salmon. It takes 5-10 pounds of fish to make 1 pound of hatchery/ranched salmon. Fact. Done and posted.

[KatMays379]

@crampedu2 I'm sure you watched the video and saw those reasons as well. It's simply not sustainable and ethical, its detrimental to multiple species. And it still takes something like 10 pounds of meal to make 1 pound of salmon, so it's still not that efficient to raise them like this. Wild caught can be better, and a method of allowing populations to regenerate and then maintaining that population is possible, and is probably the best option.