Here's the latest Global News Update in the 'Salmon Wars' raging against filthy feedlots in Canada, Chile, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, United States and Australia.
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“Caught Between Roc and a Hard Place” (Green Around the Gills, 7 November)
“Parasites have big impact on salmon” (The Royal Society, 7 November)
“Salmon report spawns new fish farm fight” (North Shore News, 7 November)
“Flesh-eating lice spread by fish farms kill 39 per cent of wild salmon” (The Scotsman, 7 November)
Read the Royal Society scientific paper on sea lice online here
“Chlamydia and gill disease ravage Scottish salmon: GAAIA” (FIS, 7 November)
“‘Flesh-eating lice from fish farms kill” (Berwick Advertiser, 7 November)
“Half of all Atlantic salmon are being killed by bloodsucking parasites, researchers claim” (The Daily Mail, 7 November)
“Farmed fish lice link to wild salmon deaths” (The Herald, 7 November)
“Sea lice killing ‘large numbers’ salmon” (BBC News, 7 November)
“Farmed salmon ravaged with parasitic diseases, campaigners warn” (The Scotsman, 6 November)
“Salmon Wars heads to Big Apple” (The Chronicle Herald, 6 November)
“Fish farms decimate wild salmon” (Nanaimo Daily News, 6 November)
“Anti-fish farm campaigner visits Isles” (Stornoway Gazette, 6 November)
“Skyfall for Scottish Salmon!” (Green Around the Gills, 6 November)
“Will Santa be kind to smoked salmon suppliers?” (Intrafish, 6 November)
“Farms not to blame” (The Province, 6 November)
“Don’t be duped by story” (Campbell River Mirror, 6 November)
“Sealice levels up in Faroe Islands” (Undercurrent News, 6 November)
“Government funding announced to expand salmon farming” (The Telegram, 6 November)
“Mainstream Welcomes Research to Help Fill Knowledge Gap” (The Fish Site, 5 November)
“Stushie for Scottish Salmon! Global anti-farming campaigner Don Staniford gives a talk in Back” (Outer Hebrides Against Fish Farms, 5 November)
“Salmon farming kills seals” (GAAIA, 5 November)
“Hebridean island residents scared of being cut off by giant salmon farm” (The Sunday Times, 4 November)
“‘Stushie’ for Scottish Salmon!” (Green Around the Gills, 4 November)
“Toxic chemicals pervade farming” (The Sunday Herald, 4 November)
“The Stench of Scottish Salmon Farming” (GAAIA, 4 November)
“Cohen report not an indictment of fish farms” (Times Colonist, 4 November)
“Salmon Farm Disease Disaster in Lamlash Bay, Arran” (GAAIA, 3 November)
“Ground Zero in Scotland’s Salmon Wars!” (Green Around the Gills, 3 November)
“Cohen report falls short: Sto:lo Tribal Council” (Chilliwack Progress, 2 November)
“Atlantic salmon group praises B.C. report's recommendation to limit fish pens” (The Canadian Press/CTV News, 2 November)
“Harper should follow wise advice in Cohen fish report” (The Province, 2 November)
“Salmon report shows the effect of politics dictating policy” (The Vancouver Sun, 2 November)
“Strong opposition to plans for Loch Slapin fish farm” (West Highland Free Press, 2 November)
“Salmon farm plan withdrawn on Eastern Shore” (CBC News, 2 November)
“Editorial: Sockeye salmon report sobering, but definitive” (The Vancouver Sun, 2 November)
“Canadian Salmon Inquiry Exposes Agency Conflicts; US Needs Similar Effort” (Fly Rod & Reel, 2 November)
“Marine Biologist, Alexandra Morton Speaks About Her Impression Of The Findings Of The Cohen Report” (CKNW, 2 November)
“Special report on salmon gets mixed reviews in Nanaimo” (Nanaimo Daily News, 2 November)
“Sockeye report 'balanced,' salmon farmers say: Farm fish spokesman confident more research will vindicate their operations” (The Vancouver Sun, 2 November 2012)
“Fish Farmer’s Not Concerned With Cohen Report” (HQ Comox Valley, 2 November)
“Risky salmon farms must be shut down: report” (FIS, 1 November)
“Carter backs fish farms” (Marlborough Express, 1 November)
“Galway Bay fish farm criticised for environment and wild salmon risks” (Galway Advertiser, 1 November)
“Shetland fish farm moves to protest stock from seals” (BBC News, 31 October)
Including from Roc Sandford (6 November) who is fighting salmon farm expansion in Scotland:
“I think we all need to link together, because at the moment we're all getting picked off one by one.”
Watch video report online here and read more via “Caught Between Roc and a Hard Place”
From Paul Dean in The Campbell River Mirror (6 November):
“We owe this industry nothing. In fact it owes Canadians uncountable compensation.”
From The Scotsman (7 November) on sea lice from salmon farms killing wild fish:
“A new international study found “unexpectedly large” numbers of wild salmon are dying in European waters every year, with 39 per cent killed by the flesh-eating lice. A leading academic at the University of St Andrews, who took part in the research, said it showed Scotland’s multi-million-pound salmon farming industry needed to do more to prevent sea lice from destroying wild fish stocks – as well as protecting the sector.”
“Co-author Professor Christopher Todd, specialist in marine ecology at the St Andrews Scottish Oceans Institute, warned: “This high-per-cent mortality attributable to sea lice was unexpected. The salmon aquaculture industry has long placed a high priority on controlling sea lice on their captive salmon – but these results do emphasise the need for the industry to not only maintain the health of their own stocks, but also to minimise the risk of cross-infection of wild fish.”
From Stephen Hume writing in The Vancouver Sun (2 November):
Oft-vilified marine biologist and wild salmon campaigner Alexandra Morton seems vindicated here. She has argued that these farms are an epicentre for stressors that can adversely affect immature wild salmon as they pass. Cohen says that unless these farms can be shown to pose no more than a minimal risk to migrating sockeye, they should be ordered by the federal government to cease operations.”
From the Chilliwack Progress (2 November):
“Tribal Chief Tyrone McNeil said the commission could have gone further to protect wild salmon from diseases carried by farmed fish. "I wanted the Commissioner to recommend there be no (salmon) farms on the migratory route of Fraser sockeye, and the relocation of farms to new sites," he said. Diseases transferred from farmed fish "pose a singular threat to wild salmon," he said, and "could decimate wild fish entirely." "Indeed, contagion from salmon farms may already be taking their toll," he said.”
From Jim Erkiletian writing in The Province (2 November) and Nanaimo Daily News (6 November):
“Now that the three-year, $26-million Cohen Report has been released, we are finally told the science shows salmon farms spread disease and parasites that decimate wild salmon populations. These are obvious actions from an industry that see wild salmon stocks as competition, and should have been obvious to the government when these Norwegian corporations were allowed here. They had already trashed wild stocks in Norway and Scotland, and are destroying those of Chile and Peru. They should be outlawed and removed from any waters used by wild salmon for migration to the ocean and return. Will the NDP do this or are they still as enamoured of Norwegian ecocide as the B.C. Liberals are?”
From Ian Roberts in The Province (6 November):
“Salmon aquaculture takes fishing pressure off wild salmon, an important part of salmon conservation. It's therefore important that people such as Mr. Erkiletian not misrepresent the findings of a report that can help us focus on what is important to the long-term sustainability of wild salmon.”
From The Fish Site (5 November):
"We are confident in the health of our fish and in the quality of our farm information and will continue to work with government regulators to show the public that we are committed to making sure our farms don't pose any risk to wild salmon," said Laurie Jensen, Mainstream Canada's Corporate Sustainability Manager.
From CTV News (2 November):
“Bill Taylor of the Atlantic Salmon Federation says governments on this coast are allowing open-net salmon pens and they are having devastating impacts on wild Atlantic salmon. In his report released Thursday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Bruce Cohen concluded that the potential harm posed by salmon farms to Fraser River sockeye salmon is "serious or irreversible." Taylor says wild Atlantic salmon in southern Newfoundland, the Bay of Fundy and along the coast of Nova Scotia might migrate near the open-net pens and risk interaction with escaped farmed salmon.”
Elena Edwards, a campaigner for Wild Salmon First who is visiting Norwegian-owned salmon farms in Scotland & Ireland, said (31 October): "May the global voices for wild salmon unite to deliver the message to Norway that Norwegian salmon farms are not welcome and must go!"
"The flag and declaration will be travelling to Scotland and Ireland to support efforts to stop Norwegian owned salmon farms from killing wild salmon," continued Edwards. "The more names on the flag the stronger the message which will be brought to Norway next year. Your voice matters!"
Sign the Declaration and view more details via http://www.wildsalmonfirst.org/
Read previous Global News Updates online here
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:
7 November - “Flesh-Eating Lice”/“Chlamydia & Gill Disease”/“Strong Opposition”/“Risky Salmon Farms”/“Scotland’s Salmon Wars” - online here
2 November - “Flying the Flag”/”Cohen Report”/“Curb Fish Farm Impact”/“Loggerheads” - online here
1 November - “Justice Cohen Gets Tough”/“Freeze On Farms”/“Cross-Appeal Vs Cermaq” - online here
31 October - “Watch Live”/“Cohen Report Tracker”/“Flying the Flag”/“Report Released Today” - online here
30 October - “Here Comes Cohen!”/“Probe Shows Need for Reform”/“Uncalled-for Attack”/“Respected Scientist” - online here
28 October - “Deadline Looms”/“Mystery Illness”/“Mass Sickness”/“Not Defamatory Enough” - online here
23 October - “Halt Fish Farm Growth”/“Disease Hits Cermaq”/“Like Cancer”/“Is Truth a Tactic?”- online here
19 October - “Sobeys Yanks Salmon”/”Sea Lice Scare!”/“Death Toll Rises”/“Direct Action Vs. New Fish Farm” - online here
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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