“Sicko Salmon”/“Farms
& Disease”/“PR Disaster”/“Passionate Pleas” – in full online here!
The
latest Global News Update includes media
coverage from Canada, Scotland, New Zealand, Australia, United States, Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands (where two
people have died from eating salmonella-infected farmed salmon - with the Dutch
health agency warning that the death toll could rise to
17).
Norwegian
TV reported (14 October) on
nematode worms in Norwegian farmed salmon whilst Scottish TV reported (11 October) on
a parasite causing 20% mortalities on Scottish salmon farms. E24 in Norway reported (5 October)
that Norwegian farmed salmon was the source of the salmonella outbreak with
Marine Harvest refusing to comment.
Upcoming
news includes a public hearing for a new salmon farm off Mull in Scotland (5 November); public consultation on a
new 15,000 tonne ‘organic’ salmon farm in Ireland (consultation
period closes on 12 December); a prize for ‘Controversy’ awarded to Dr.
Alexandra Morton and Professor Richard Routledge at Simon Fraser University (24
October); and talks by Alexandra Morton at Dalhousie University (19 October)
and the Atlantic Salmon
Federation
(16 October). Follow Alexandra Morton’s
trip to Nova Scotia online here
Including STV News (11
October) on the spread of infectious diseases at Scottish salmon farms:
“Creel fisherman Angus Campbell
said: “The reports on Sepa indicate that there are hundreds of tonnes of fish
dying in these sites. “Last week we saw
a load of 26 tonnes heading down to Uist to get buried. It’s just incredible
the amount of dead fish coming out of these sites.”
Including
ABC News (4 October) on
salmonella-infected Norwegian farmed salmon:
Please
see below for more details:
“Sicko Salmon”/“Passionate
Pleas”/“Farms & Disease”/“PR Disaster”
Please
find enclosed a press update (web-links are embedded in the headlines and the
articles are available in full online here) including:
“Salmon Farms and Disease: The Importance of Both Academic Freedom and
Community-Engaged Research” (Dr. Alexandra Morton and Professor Richard
Routledge at Simon Fraser University, 24 October)
“Alexandra Morton on ‘Farmed
Salmon vs. Wild: the role of government, scientists and citizens’” (Dalhousie
University, 19 October)
“Alexandra Morton at ASF” (Atlantic
Salmon Federation, 16 October)
“Fish farms,
lobster don’t mix, expert says: Coastline will be an aquaculture dump site,
marine biologist warns” (The Chronicle Herald, 15 October)
“Isle of Mull Sleepwalks to PR Disaster/Public Hearing re Fingal's Cage may be held at
Dervaig, Isle of Mull, 5th November” (Salmon Factory, 15 October)
“Two Dead After
Eating Infected Farmed Salmon - Death Toll Set to Rise to 17!” (Green Around
the Gills, 15 October)
“Two die from
infected Foppen salmon – Dutch health agency said death toll could reach 17” (Intrafish, 15
October)
“Sushi
fans urged to eat with care as oceans empty” (The Standard, 15 October)
“Consultation
begins on deep sea salmon farm” (Fish Farmer, 15 October)
“Mainstream
Canada takes heat over new farm – DFO approves new open net pen in Canada’s
Clayoquot Sound”
(Intrafish, 15 October)
“How to better
use wild fish near fish farms” (FIS, 15 October)
“Tuna grow faster
in deep seas: research” (The Australian, 15 October)
“King Salmon
launch targets top end” (Fairfax NZ, 15 October)
“Pontoon floats
away”
(Marlborough Express, 15 October)
“Scientists sound
the alarm and require national surveys to find out whether nematodes can be
found in fish from Norwegian salmon farms” (TV2, 14 October)
“No one can
understand why”
(Alexandra Morton, 14 October)
“£17m loss
threatens the salmon industry” (Daily Mail, 13 October)
“Parasite kills
hundreds of tonnes of fish across the Western Isles” (The Scotsman,
13 October)
“Salmonella poisoning kills two in Netherlands” (Mareeg, 13
October)
“Over 500 Salmonella Cases Tied to Smoked Salmon in
Netherlands”
(Food Safety News, 13 October)
“Dutch public
health watchdog says at least 1 elderly patient has died in salmonella outbreak”
(Associated Press/Montreal Gazette, 13 October)
“Nova Scotia Day
1”
(Alexandra Morton, 13 October)
“Rafe Mair's
Landmark Free Speech Case Credited in Salmon Activist Staniford's Victory” (Common Sense
Canadian, 12 October)
“Lessons from a
fish farm defamation lawsuit” (West Coast Environmental Law, 12
October)
“DFO
approves new open net-pen salmon farm in Clayoquot Sound despite ongoing
concerns about disease and pathogens” (Farmed &
Dangerous, 12 October)
“Clark government
approves new fish farm in Clayoquot Sound” (Friends of
Clayoquot Sound/Living Oceans, 12 October)
“Salmon” (FAO
Globefish, October)
“Salmon ruling
may be delayed”
(Marlborough Express, 12 October)
“Port Gore salmon
farm plan canned”
(Marlborough Express, 12 October)
“King Salmon
'bought opponents' property'” (Marlborough Express, 12 October)
“Vast
numbers of salmon dying from major disease outbreak” (Hebrides News, 12
October)
“Fishermen in
Western Isles losing up to 20% of stock as disease spreads” (STV News, 11
October)
“Jefferson
County commissioners hear from experts on salmon net pens” (Port Townsend
Leader, 11 October)
“Open ocean or on
land for salmon farms”
(Marlborough Express, 11 October)
“Salmon oil claim
disputed”
(Marlborough Express, 11 October)
“Inquiry ‘may be
charade’”
(Marlborough Express, 11 October)
“Fast-track plan
may trample democracy”
(Marlborough Express, 11 October)
“11 firms fined
for failing to act on infected salmon” (Dutch News, 11 October)
“Salmon farming
industry is a waste of resources” (The Daily News, 10 October)
“Scales of
injustice”
(The Mercury, 10 October)
“Judge
appreciates young ideas” (Marlborough Express, 10 October)
“Locals know area
better”
(Marlborough Express, 10 October)
“Fish farms
expected to hit property values” (Marlborough Express, 10 October)
“Fears of light
pollution from farms”
(Marlborough Express, 10 October)
“Anglers' objection to salmon status bid” (Belfast
Telegraph, 10 October)
“Sea lice from
farmed fish goes out over the wild salmon stocks” (NRK, 9
October)
“Western Isles salmon farm in wrasse ‘first’” (BBC News, 9 October)
“Nova Scotia Atlantic salmon feedlots,
sea lice? Maybe” (You Tube, 9
October)
“Fish disease
experts discuss aquaculture” (Peninsula Daily News, 9 October)
“Marine Harvest
preliminary Q3 core earnings drop 86 pct” (Reuters, 9 October)
“Residents raise
opposition to NZKS plan” (Marlborough Express, 9 October)
“Farms will
‘scar’ sounds”
(Marlborough Express, 9 October)
“Salmon farm
moved again”
(Marlborough Express, 9 October)
“Fish farms to
expand in West”
(The Mercury, 9 October)
“Final hurdle for
fish farm expansion”
(ABC News, 9 October)
“Green light for
salmon farming expansion” (ABC News, 8 October)
“Residents show their
concerns”
(Marlborough Express, 8 October)
“Balance of
nature in Sounds 'at risk'” (Marlborough Express, 8 October)
“Zealot – not really” (reLAKSation,
7 October)
“Sockeye success
key to our spiritual health” (The Vancouver Sun, 6 October)
“Roundworms found
in Norwegian farmed salmon for first time: see what the researchers found in
farmed salmon” (TV2, 5 October)
“Greek factory
blamed for salmonella in ‘Norwegian Salmon’” (E24, 5 October)
“Salmon in giant
tanks can threaten the Norwegian export” (Aftenposten, 5 October)
“Cermaq takes $9
million hit on disease outbreaks in Q3” (Intrafish, 5 October)
“Activists call
for Fisheries Bill to help wild waters” (The Scotsman, 5 October)
“Could Foppen’s
flop cost it the Coscto contract?” (Intrafish, 5 October)
“Do You Want to Eat Genetically Engineered Salmon?” (EcoWatch, 5
October)
“BAP certifies
its first two salmon farms in Australasia” (FIS, 5 October)
“‘We will defend our rights’” (Marlborough Express, 5 October)
“Funding Advances Important Reporting Work by
BC's Salmon Farmers” (The Fish
Site, 5 October)
“Wise words from Carl Sagan” (Salmon Farm Science, 5 October)
“Salmon farm
activist acquitted of defamation” (The Daily News, 4 October)
“Mainstream
defamation suit dismissed by BC Supreme Court” (The Westerly News, 4 October)
“Norsk laks får
skylden for salmonellautbrudd” (Aftenposten, 4 October)
“Laks får skylden for hundrevis av
salmonellatilfeller”
(NTB/Nettavisen, 4 October)
“Video: Costco
salmon made me sick”
(Intrafish, 4 October)
“Sicko Salmon -
ABC News on "Horrible" Norwegian Farmed Salmon” (Salmon
Farming Kills, 4 October)
“Costco Recalls Smoked Salmon Sold to Quarter of a
Million Customers” (Food Safety
News, 4 October)
“Costco pulls
salmonella-tainted salmon from shelves” (FIS, 4 October)
“Hundreds sickened by Costco smoked salmon” (KVUE/ABC News, 4 October)
“Passionate pleas
at fish farm hearing”
(Marlborough Express, 4 October)
“Iwi slates poor
cultural approach at hearing” (Marlborough Express, 4 October)
“Scotland’s fish farming faces stricter controls” (BBC News, 4 October)
“Law ‘can reform fisheries industry’” (IC Scotland, 4 October)
“Austin woman says Costco smoked salmon made her sick” (ABC News, 3 October)
“FDC, CDC advise
consumers not to eat Foppen smoked salmon” (Intrafish, 3 October)
“Call for appeals
board transparency”
(The Fish Site, 3 October)
“First salmon
farm commits to ASC”
(Seafood Source, 3 October)
“Salmon activist
wins defamation case”
(Fish & Fly, 3 October)
“Commissioners told to include net-pens in Shoreline Management Plan
update” (Port Townsend Leader, 3 October)
“Green MP says
salmon firm has history of mistakes” (Marlborough Express, 3 October)
“Will salmon
farming ever stop having a hard time?” (Seafood Source, 2 October)
“Salmon Activist Don
Staniford Wins Big Victory in Defamation Case Over Norwegian Aquaculture Giant” (Common Sense
Canadian, 30 September)
From
Brian Plaisier in the Marlborough
Express
(8 October) in New Zealand:
“We
have a duty to our children to protect our environment. We need to recognise
that we've reached a tipping point in our Sounds. We need to ask ourselves the hard questions:
do we put economy before environment, and how do we justify that to our
mokopuna?"
From
NRK News (9 October) in
Norway:
“Leader
of the scientific advice for salmon management, Torbjørn Forseth, says sea lice
situation in Norway is very serious.
Lice has long been a problem for farmed fish in Norway. Increasingly,
however, has lice spread to wild salmon.....Forseth says that sea lice in wild
salmon is a clearly the biggest problem in the area with much farming. - One must really keep the pressure up, for
there is a connection between how much it is lice in farmed fish and the
quantity of lice that come in wild fish.”
From the Port Townsend Leader (11 October) in Washington state in the US:
“Jefferson County
commissioners have begun discussing what happens when native fish become
infected with lethal viruses and parasites as a result of net pens, even though
no pens are currently planned for the county...... John
Kerwin, with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), said a
virus known as infectious salmon anemia (ISA) was detected in Canadian waters
in October 2011. He said Washington state labs have samples, but haven’t
fine-tuned the testing process.”
From Alexandra Morton reporting (13
October) from her visit to Nova Scotia:
“We
passed dozens of signs “STOP FISH FARMS,” “OPEN NET SALMON FARMS ARE NOT
WELCOME!” Clearly there is a battle going on
here......
The signs made it clear this community is not willing to give their way of life
easily. They are standing ground.”
Watch Norwegian TV (14 October) on nematode worms in Norwegian
farmed salmon – online here
From The Marlborough Express (11 October) in New Zealand:
“King Salmon
aquaculture general manager Mark Preece had said land-based farming was
feasible but operating costs were double those of the company's sea farms. However, a Canadian study found it would cost
$12 to $14 million to build a farm capable of growing 1000 tonnes of fish, he
said. This was similar to the cost of
the hearing and would eliminate community concerns.”
From
The Mercury (10 October) in
Australia:
“Frances
Bender and David Whyte are salmon farmers but sometimes, particularly on a
long-distance flight, they might not want to admit to it. David says he can almost see a person pressing the
buzzer for the flight attendant and asking to be moved when he tells them his
job. If he is tired he might claim to be
a public servant working in statistics.
Frances, who with her husband Peter owns Huon Aquaculture, says
sometimes she also is too tired to "fight the good fight".
From The Mercury (9 October) reporting on the
trebling of production in Tasmania:
“The
decision by the Federal Environment Minister requires that baseline
environmental survey and ongoing water quality monitoring is undertaken on all
lease areas and compliance sites prior to commencement of operations,"
Greens MP Tim Morris said. "Without
baseline data and effective monitoring in place, any expansion of salmon
farming within Macquarie Harbour could have the potential to backfire terribly
and undermine the long term viability of the industry."
From the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (12 October) in British Columbia:
“Replacing a poorly producing site with
a site able to greatly expand production of Atlantic salmon in open net-pens
along the Bedwell Sound and Fortune Channel corridor is a recipe for disaster
for wild salmon.”
From The Marlborough
Express (10 October):
“Mrs Gerard said rough weather in
Gore Bay risked predator exclusion nets at the proposed Papatua farm being
damaged, then entangling dolphins. King Salmon reports had mentioned a policy
of no guns except in extreme circumstances, Mrs Gerard said. "We don't believe they should have the
right to shoot anything in a marine environment," she said.”
From
The Marlborough
Express
(9 October):
“Some
Marlborough Sounds residents accused King Salmon of operating with a
"slash and burn" mentality and failing to acknowledge the danger
further farms would pose to boat traffic at a hearing on Friday.....East Bay
Conservation Society president Mark Denize opposed King Salmon's application,
on behalf of the society, saying the farms would pollute the environment and
there was a lack of monitoring on existing sites. "It is now abundantly clear that the
entire enterprise is being run under a slash and burn modus operandi”.
From the Peninsula Daily
News (9 October) in Washington state in the
United States:
“Midway into a
workshop about fish diseases with regard to net pen aquaculture, one of the
panelists put the discussion into a certain perspective. “I can't imagine any rational company would
install a fish-farming site anywhere in Jefferson County,” said Mike Rust,
science coordinator for the Office of Aquaculture in the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, on Monday afternoon. He later said the comment was a joke, though
some attending the meeting took it seriously.”
From artist Robert Bateman in The Vancouver
Sun (10 October) in response to the question ‘What’s wrong with farmed salmon?’:
“We’re catching fish down in South America like
anchovies and all kinds of things like that and processing it to feed to other
fish. It’s a mug’s game. You actually lose in the food chain. We shouldn’t be
doing that. If we have to farm fish, it should be tilapia farmed on land — it
should have a vegetarian diet. It’s just a bad idea.”
From The Washington Post (10 October) on Norwegian farmed salmon:
“Norwegian ocean-farmed salmon is richer in omega-3s than wild
salmon (although there is a growing body of evidence pointing to the negatives of the fish).”
From
Laurie Watt writing in The Daily News (10 October):
“In
my opinion the entire salmon feedlot industry is a waste of resources....in
addition to being breeding grounds for sea lice and disease and should be
completely banned. I believe the feedlot industry in B.C. is allowed to exist
because both the federal and provincial governments want to kill all the wild
salmon and the indigenous cultures they support, for the ultimate goal of
drilling for oil off our once-pristine coast”
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News Archive:
Global News Updates - including the 'Salmon Wars' raging against filthy feedlots in Canada, Chile, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, United States and Australia - are archived below and 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!
