Please find enclosed a press update (in full online here) including:
“Marlborough Sounds teen fights salmon farms” (3 News, 18 October)
Watch video report online here
“'Seal Friendly' salmon” (BBC News, 18 October)
“Fish farm approval sparks lawsuit threat: Proposed Clayoquot Sound site divides neighbouring First Nations” (The Times Colonist, 18 October)
“STOP NORWEGIAN FISH FARMS FROM KILLING WILD SALMON: Declaration for Wild Salmon & flag are headed to Scotland & Ireland!” (Wild Salmon First, 18 October)
“Birthplace of salmon feedlots in Canada” (Alexandra Morton, 18 October)
“Cleaner Fish: A new tool to mitigate sea lice” (The Coaster, 18 October)
“Nitrogen introduction a major issue – witness” (Marlborough Express, 18 October)
“More samples urged” (Marlborough Express, 18 October)
“NZ King Salmon hearing wraps up” (Nelson Mail, 18 October)
“Role of conditions highlighted” (Marlborough Express, 18 October)
“Salmon industry health indicators worsen, according to Intesal ” (FIS, 18 October)
“Salmon farming expansion threatens fishermen livelihoods” (Hebrides News, 17 October)
“St. Mary's council not a fan of open-pen aquaculture” (Guysborough Journal, 17 October)
“CEO: Customers want land-based farmed salmon” (Intrafish, 17 October)
“Can Norway limit the size of a company’s salmon farming operations?” (Intrafish, 17 October)
“Politics holds back animal engineers” (Nature, 17 October)
“Norwegian Salmon Farming Giant Appeals Loss in Defamation Case Against Activist Don Staniford” (The Common Sense Canadian, 17 October)
“Mainstream to appeal decision” (Courier-Islander, 17 October)
“Oddekalv: Mainstream baerer ved til balet” (Intrafish, 17 October)
“World leading fish farm facility” (The Fish Site, 17 October)
“Council process ‘too slow’” (Marlborough Express, 17 October)
“Proposed farm moved, but concerns remain” (Marlborough Express, 17 October)
“Vancouver Island First Nations sign agreement with fish farm” (Business in Vancouver, 17 October)
“Salmon farm licence consultation begins” (World Fishing & Aquaculture, 16 October)
“Offshore farms grow bigger tuna” (Science Alert, 16 October)
“Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations Opposes DFO Approval Of Mainstream Canada's Plover Point Fish Farm” (Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources, 16 October)
“Norsk oppdrettsgigant tar lakseaktivist til retten igjen” (Aftenposten, 16 October)
“Don Staniford’s response to Cermaq’s appeal” (You Tube, 16 October)
“Legal Action Vs. Cermaq in Clayoquot?” (Green Around the Gills, 16 October)
“Activist sticks to his guns in face of court appeal” (The Courier-Islander, 16 October)
“B.C. salmon farming company appeals judge's ruling in defamation case” (The Canadian Press/Ottawa Citizen/Montreal Gazette/Global News/The Tyee/MSN/CTV/CBC, 16 October)
“Cermaq Dig Deeper Hole by Appealing Lawsuit Loss” (Green Around the Gills, 16 October)
“Nordea forecasts 75% dive in Cermaq earnings” (Undercurrent News, 16 October)
“Mainstream Canada appeal Staniford ruling” (The Westerly News, 16 October)
“Mainstream Canada appeals defamation decision – initial ruling against Mainstream hung on a ‘technical issue’, lawyer says” (Intrafish, 16 October)
“Mainstream Canada appeals ruling” (World Fishing & Aquaculture, 16 October)
“Mainstream against Staniford” (Norwegian Fish Farmer, 16 October)
“Iwi not consulted – lawyer” (Marlborough Express, 16 October)
“Trial and error over time” (Marlborough Express, 16 October)
“Aran fish farm could create 500 jobs” (The Irish Times, 16 October)
“Council wants details” (Marlborough Express, 16 October)
“Cermaq concentrates over 55 pc of its salmon business in Chile” (FIS, 16 October)“B.C. salmon farm appeals defamation ruling/Fish farming firm appeals ruling in defamation case” (The Canadian Press/Metro News/The Vancouver Sun, 15 October)
“Mainstream Canada appeals defamation ruling” (Mainstream Canada, 15 October)
“Foppen’s ‘grief’ as two die from infected salmon: Dutch health agency say death toll could reach 17, with potentially 10,000 people being infected by now” (Intrafish, 15 October)
“Verlasso & Inland Seafood Harmoniously Raised Salmon Heading Southeast” (Perishable News, 15 October)
“Public consultation on Galway Bay salmon farm begins” (RTE News, 15 October)
“Another town fighting fish farms” (Alexandra Morton, 15 October)
“Biologist says Nova Scotia coasts could be "dump sites"” (South Coast Today, 15 October)
“New Environment Minister ducks call in on marine pollution” (For Argyll, 15 October)
“Response to Hugh Mitchell's comments by Todd Sandell” (Port Townsend Leader, 12 October)
“Unprecedented spread of salmon disease” (Hebrides News, 12 October)
“Puchi: "The acquisition just made by Cermaq is good news for the industry"” (Fish Farming Xpert, 12 October)
“'The judicial sanction is unfair', argues salmon entrepreneur ” (FIS, 11 October)
“Connecting the dots: Alex Morton goes to Eastern Canada” (Salmon Are Sacred, 11 October)
From Alexandra Morton (15 October) on her visit to Nova Scotia:
“Feels like we are playing a game with a bunch of cheaters,” said one resident over our dinner - unbelievably delicious lobster chowder....... The people have fire in their eyes. They are deeply attached to their communities and the communities are banding together”
From Ewan Kennedy reporting from Scotland in For Argyll (15 November):
“Fish ‘farming’ is one of the few industries that are permitted by law actively to pollute the environment; but a company may only do so within an area known as the ‘allowable zone of effects’ (AZE)….. Incredibly, SEPA do not consider sea-lice to be pollution, so the effects on wild fish have not been properly assessed. Under European legislation there should have been environmental assessments into these further matters, especially as the Seil Sound discharges directly into the Firth of Lorn Marine Special Area of Conservation, whose Southern boundary lies at the Cleit Rock in the Cuan. Ignoring the issues may place the government in breach of the Habitats Directive with resultant complaints to the European Commission.”
From Hebrides News (12 October) on disease problems in the Western Isles in Scotland:
“Amoebic Gill Disease is rife in virtually all sea farms across Lewis, Harris and Uist. It is also affecting Skye, Argyll, Shetland and Orkney.....Marine Harvest spokesman Steve Bracken said: “In June and July weather conditions in the Western Isles were very unusual. As a result we experienced much higher seawater temperatures and higher salinity levels than is the norm which has led to an increase in amoebic gill disease (AGD).”
From Todd Sandell of the Wild Fish Conservancy writing in the Port Townsend Leader (12 October):
“Now that Infectious Salmon Anemia virus (ISAV) has been detected in B.C., we should be very concerned that this virus will move into WA state waters, as salmon migration pathways lead salmon originating from Puget Sound along the coast of B.C. en route to Alaska before they return to spawn. Statements of assurance that ISA is not in WA are indefensible, because without testing of hatchery, net pen, and wild stocks, we have no way of knowing- and thus we should not be complacent. At present no federal or state agencies are testing for ISA in salmon from Washington waters.”
From Alexandra Morton on her trip to New Brunswick:
“I have bought two farm salmon since I have been here that have had about 30 lice each.
Most of the lice were buried under the gill flap, where they were not washed off during cleaning. There could have been far more lice to begin with. Someone has a big lice problem right now.”
Support Alexandra Morton’s testing for salmon diseases – please donate online here now!
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Best fishes,
Don
Read previous Global News Updates via "Tell the World What's Happening"
Global News Archive:
Global News Updates include the 'Salmon Wars' raging against filthy feedlots in Canada, Chile, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, United States and Australia:
18 October - “Teen
Fights Salmon Farms”/“Lawsuit Threat”/“Cermaq Appeal”/”Health Indicators
Worsen” – online here
15 October - “Sicko Salmon”/“Farms & Disease”/“PR Disaster”/“Passionate Pleas” – online here
3 October -
“Salmonella Outbreak”/Activist Wins”/“Boaties Protest”/“Lynch Mob” - online
here
28 September -
“Judgment Day”/“Salmon Sludge Fouls Hearing”/“Students Oppose Farms” - online
here
24
September - “Flotilla Protest”/“Shooting Seals Row”/“Farm Not
Welcome” - online
here
11 September -
“Dirty Secrets”/“FishyLeaks: Toxic Toilets”/“Disease Risk” - online
here
29 August - “Virus
Trackers”/“Compensation Culture”/“Say No to 9 New Salmon Farms” - online
here
8 August - “Legal
Strategy”/“Wave of Controversy”/“IHN Virus” - online
here
3 August - “Fatal Virus Detected in BC”/“Fish Farm
Quarantined” - online
here
31 July - “IHN Virus Spreads”/“Norway’s Olympic Mascot”/”Playing With
Fire” - online here
20 July - “Norwegian Fish Farm Virus Found in BC”/”ISA Confirmed”/“A
Fishy Tale” - online
here
17 July - “FishyLeaks”/“ISA in BC”/“Scotland’s Secrets” - online
here
13 July - “Aquaculture PR Wars”/“Beware Mother Nature”/“Trouble
Brewing” - online
here
11 July - "Salmon Wars Are Here"/"Smoking
Gun"/"Canada disease cleanup" - online
here
9 July -
"Killer Panda"/"Quarantined Salmon to be Destroyed"/"PR
War Waged" - online
here!
6 July - "CFIA quarantines fish farm"/"Parasite found in
Norwegian-owned salmon" - online
here!
4 July - "Parasite-ridden salmon sold in BC stores"/"95%
of BC salmon is BAP certified" - online
here!
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