U.S. seafood leaders rally behind new legislation to expand ocean fish farming, while Canada struggles without a national framework for aquaculture.
Prime Minister Mark Carney faces a defining choice on the future of BC’s salmon farming sector that will test his promise to keep Canada’s elbows up. CommentaryBy Fabian Dawson Prime …
New peer-reviewed findings show the evidence does not support the narrative that “no salmon farms mean no sea lice”, raising fresh questions about Ottawa’s activist-induced plan to curtail ocean-based aquaculture …
A 22-month farmed salmon production cycle with zero mechanical delousing treatments highlights how Indigenous stewardship and innovation is reshaping aquaculture in British Columbia. By Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews The Ahousaht First Nation …
“I believe Canada can become a global leader in the next generation of aquaculture production,” says Federal Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson.
While the U.S. strengthens salmon aquaculture for food resilience, Canada is weakening it at the behest of ideological activists.
Coastal First Nations in BC say this year’s sockeye surge is cause for celebration but warn that activist claims tying it to salmon farm closures misrepresent science, undermines reconciliation and …
Claims that the removal of salmon farms along the east coast of Vancouver Island is why we are seeing a bounty of Fraser-bound sockeye are “absolute nonsense”, says Chief John …
Science shows no link between salmon farm closures and Fraser sockeye, yet news outlets continue amplifying misinformation from activist groups.
PM Mark Carney has warned Canadians to be wary of what they stand to lose…For BC’s salmon farming sector, that means thousands of jobs, food security, Indigenous-led prosperity and a …
As British Columbia celebrates one of its strongest wild salmon runs in years, activist spin doctors are twisting the story to fit their anti-fish farming agenda, as shown by analysis …
In a pre-budget submission, seafood farmers urge Ottawa to deliver investment certainty and formally recognise aquaculture as agriculture.
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“Salmon Secrets” Is a Deep Dive Into the Deceiving Depths of Anti-Fish Farm Activism in B.C.
With fishy facts, fear-based edits, and a cast of debunked anti-aquaculture activists, Salmon Secrets is a ‘shockumentary’ that gasps for credibility as it drowns in its own misinformation.
More than 1,000 expected at community BBQ, which aims to send a message to Prime Minister Mark Carney that rural jobs, Indigenous rights, and food security are at risk under …
PM Carney Canada’s agriculture leaders, including from aquaculture, are calling on Ottawa to treat food production as a pillar of economic policy and a foundation for national growth.
Cermaq has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Grieg Seafood ASA’s operations in British Columbia, Newfoundland, and Finnmark, Norway
New OECD-FAO and World Bank reports champion seafood farming as key to feeding the planet, but Canada’s aquaculture sector remains paralysed by political indecision.
From salmon farming to the energy sector, the activist playbook leans on deception to turn fiction into funding.
New peer-reviewed study exposes flawed science, misrepresented risks, and activist influence behind Trudeau-era plan to eliminate ocean-based salmon aquaculture in British Columbia
A collaboration between University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) and Vancouver Island’s Browns Bay Packing Company aims to change the way seafood is packaged and shipped across the globe.
Canada Day call for Indigenous partnership and economic resilience fuels Campbell River’s push to revive aquaculture, protect resource-sector jobs, and demand science-based reforms from policymakers.
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World Bank Champions Large-Scale Aquaculture While Ottawa Shrinks BC’s Salmon Farming Sector
As the World Bank calls for bold expansion in global seafood production, Canada is steering BC salmon farmers toward unproven and unviable small-scale land-based fish farms.
Large-scale land-based salmon farming in British Columbia is not economically viable, not technologically ready, and not suited to the province’s geography or infrastructure, states a new government report that once …
Anti-salmon farming activists’ flush facts for clickbait and poop-fueled outrage, as their video “evidence” floats on fiction and flounders in fact.
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Aquaculture: Salmon Farmer Linda Sams May Be Stepping Aside, But She’s Not Stepping Away
Salmon farming sector pays tribute to Linda Sams, an aquaculture icon, whose four-decade career shaped the future of sustainable fish farming across communities, countries, and cultures.
The environmental NGO sector is the most unregulated industry in the country but nobody in Ottawa is scrutinizing them or the claims they make, warns one of Canada’s top public …
After years of being targeted by activists and sidelined by Ottawa, First Nations, aquaculture leaders, scientists, and politicians are rising in unison to reclaim salmon farming’s rightful place as a …
As Ottawa pledges reconciliation and prosperity in this week’s Throne Speech, the Kitasoo Xai’xais First Nation confronts a future without salmon farming – the very industry that saved their community.
For years, Alexandra Morton has been the high priestess of anti–salmon farming rhetoric in British Columbia, preaching the gospel of “No Farms, No Sea Lice” with relentless zeal.
A comprehensive peer-reviewed study debunks the false claim by anti-aquaculture activists that ‘no salmon farms mean no sea lice’.
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