New leadership at Canadian Seafood Farmers pushes for science-based policies, investment certainty and increased domestic seafood production as Ottawa faces growing pressure over its 2029 salmon farming ban in British …
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Two new reports warn that declining aquaculture and forestry production, coupled with inadequate power planning, threaten jobs, businesses and future growth across Vancouver Island.
The Carney government must conduct a comprehensive assessment of consumer costs and national food security before proceeding with the plan to ban conventional ocean salmon farming in British Columbia by …
A new Pacific Salmon Foundation study shows how disputed findings can be turned into alarming headlines, fuelling the “scientific uncertainty” activists need to kill British Columbia’s ocean salmon farming sector.
“This is a crisis, an avoidable crisis.” First Nation leaders warn Prime Minister Mark Carney that the plan to ban ocean salmon farming in B.C. is killing jobs, blocking billions …
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. …
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 …
Recognition highlights the salmon farming advocate’s work building a new generation of seafood leaders as aquaculture expands to meet growing global demand for sustainable protein.
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. …
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 …
Students wanted to know how many farms operated in British Columbia, why Atlantic salmon were raised on the Pacific coast and whether production could be moved onto land.
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 …
Recognized as one of B.C.’s young salmon farming leaders, the Vancouver Island mother and environmental specialist says the people behind the sector deserve to be seen. By Samantha McLeodSeaWestNews Kirstyn …
“I would absolutely love for no one else to have to go through what we’re going through right now,” she says. “Have job security. Have food security. Have the support …
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 …
Every remaining salmon farm in the province operates under an agreement with the First Nation in whose territory it is located. It is mind boggling how many news outlet ignore …
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. …
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 …