For years, activists said removing salmon farms would cut sea lice on wild salmon. The farms went, taking 1,500 jobs and more than $1 billion in aquaculture investment with them. …
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Fabian Dawson
New identity comes with a policy push to scrap B.C.’s 2029 salmon farming ban, recognize aquaculture as agriculture and grow more Canadian seafood
Prime Minister Mark Carney lays out a new “protect while we build” ocean-economy strategy as salmon farmers and their First Nations partners await a decision on the future of marine …
Armed with inflated egos, a cabal of chefs has cooked up a recipe for saving the oceans that keeps endangered wild fish on their menus, boots out responsibly farmed salmon …
A ‘Marine Donut’ will be built and tested in Campbell River, but its developer says the closed-containment aquaculture system is no near-term replacement for existing ocean salmon farming in B.C.
Calls by the Pacific Salmon Foundation to eliminate B.C.’s ocean salmon farms rely on land-based replacement technologies struggling with bankruptcies, high costs, production failures and investor losses.
Stewart Muir, a leading B.C. resource advocate, lays out the playbook activist-friendly Trudeau-era politicians used to choke off aquaculture investment and kill conventional salmon farming on Canada’s West Coast.
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture says aquaculture must be treated as part of Canada’s broader food economy, warning that regulatory uncertainty is pushing hundreds of millions of dollars in investment …
Mayor Kermit Dahl, chair of the Alliance of Resource Communities, says Ottawa has made its decision on the future of salmon farming in B.C. and must make it public, warning …
Multinational aquaculture companies fear Ottawa’s plan to ban salmon farming in British Columbia could spread east, creating a “broader investment chill” across Atlantic Canada, according to a new report.
The upcoming Cold Harvest Conference brings Canada’s multi-billion-dollar seafood farming sector together as Ottawa seeks new investment, pushes domestic food production and faces a defining choice over the future of …
Nearly a decade after Dominic Barton’s economic council urged Canada to seize its aquaculture opportunity, his return as chair of Invest in Canada is renewing hope that the sector could …
The federal government is investing millions in First Nations-led hatcheries to produce more salmon while pursuing a policy that would dismantle another Indigenous-backed form of salmon production on the B.C. …
Activist financier, Tony Allard says a Trudeau-era plan to eliminate ocean salmon farming in British Columbia by 2029 advances reconciliation. Coastal First Nations that host the farms see something very …
New audited data from 11 global producers shows the salmon farming industry’s steep declines in the use of antibiotics and medication to treat sea lice.
Province raises the future of salmon farming on Canada’s West Coast as a priority during national fisheries ministers meeting in Victoria.
British Columbia wild salmon-runs rise and fall for complex reasons. But for anti-fish farming activists, every boom and bust somehow leads back to the same target.
As Canada curtails salmon production at home and spends a record $1 billion on imports, shipments from China are surging despite the country having virtually no salmon industry of its …
As Falklanders Islanders weigh whether salmon farming could become a new economic pillar, two aquaculture specialists are drawing on British Columbia’s experience to show how science, local knowledge and strong …
As Atlantic salmon prices jump more than 25 per cent, the federal government continues to sit on a policy that would slash domestic production, deepen Canada’s reliance on seafood imports …
Salmon farming First Nations accuse B.C. businessman Tony Allard and his network of aquaculture detractors of spreading fear, distorting science and dismissing Indigenous authority, as calls grow for the activists …
A bacterial disease found in captive Chinook is being used to implicate ocean salmon farms, despite no proof of a marine aquaculture source or harm to wild populations.
Activist financier wants Ottawa to dismantle a major B.C. aquaculture sector, override coastal First Nations and gamble $2 billion in public money on a land-based salmon farming model with a …
As the first five families prepare to move into Nenagwas, the Tlowitsis First Nation’s new home on Vancouver Island, Ottawa’s plan to ban ocean salmon farming in British Columbia threatens …
The world’s largest salmon farmer has sold its Atlantic Canadian business as its West Coast operations remain under strategic review and caught in Ottawa’s plan to end conventional ocean salmon …
British Columbia’s salmon farmers have built the kind of First Nations and community alliances needed to defend jobs, food production and small-town economies, a keynote address to the inaugural B.C. …
A major UN report says aquaculture now supplies most seafood eaten worldwide, while Canadian production stagnates ahead of a federal decision on salmon farming in British Columbia.
New government-backed monitoring in the world’s largest Atlantic salmon farming nation found very low pathogen levels in migrating post-smolts, adding to a growing body of science that challenges activist claims …
After years of uncertainty, B.C.’s salmon farmers used their AGM in Campbell River to show a growing coalition of support from First Nations leaders, politicians, agriculture advocates, tourism operators, resource …