Bycatch - Canada is not alone when it comes to poor management in the catch of non-target fish and ocean…
There are many people involved in Aquaculture management as they work diligently to ensure Canadians are getting healthy food, while…
British Columbia continues to use safe and healthy farming practices to assist nature in staying ahead of the snowballing requests…
Image - Vancouver Island fish processor, Real Lapointe at his retirement party held at Marine Harvest Canada’s salmon processing plant…
By Seawestnews “Beyond a stated preference for sockeye salmon, the Squamish Nation did not address why other fish cannot satisfy…
Report is the first in a series that will assess the risk of pathogen transfer associated with aquaculture activities to…
BC salmon are raised with passion and good food as well as the latest in science and technology. Healthy, well-informed,…
“B.C. is the only such region in the world to have this distinction for its entire Atlantic salmon production,” https://www.seafoodsource.com/news/environment-sustainability/seafood-watch-upgrades-atlantic-salmon-farmed-in-british-columbia-canada
One of the biggest sources for seafood for the United States are the coastal waters of British Columbia, from where…
The wholesale value of B.C. farmed raised salmon rose to $796 million in 2016, creating 2,966 direct jobs and 2,716…
More than eight million Atlantic salmon have been intentionally released into B.C. rivers and lakes, beginning more than a century…
Geoducks are a $45 million dollar a year business and only so many of the clams can be harvested each…
Dozens of international seafood buyers – mostly from Asia – flocked to the picturesque Comox Valley in British Columbia to…
Blackfin Pub serves up BC seafood and is the first of many family operated businesses that visitors discover as they…
The International Symposium on Aquatic Animal Health, September 2-6, 2018 Charlottetown, PE Every four years, the American Fisheries Society –…
Canada’s Farmed Seafood Conference 2017 November 21-22, 2017 Ottawa, ON A competitive, sustainable, diverse and growing farmed-raised seafood sector that…
Source: Mata Press Service - published by asingh on Tue, 10/03/2017 - 18:26 British Columbia’s salmon aquaculture industry, often lambasted at home…
Source: By Mata Press Service In a remote area northwest of Vancouver Island called Kyuquot Sound, sablefish, a Japanese delicacy…
B.C.’s original fish farmers date back to only the mid-1970s and 1980s. The industry was initially experimental in the 1970s…
Farm-raised salmon are free of sea lice when they are entered into the ocean, but during the fall adult wild…
No. A comprehensive study into dozens of possible threats that may have affected the return of Fraser River sockeye (2009)…
In any animal population there are individuals born with deformities, or who suffer from stunted growth or injuries. This is…
Without salmon farming in aquaculture, wild fish are at risk of overfishing Fish are the world’s largest traded food commodity.…
Farm-raised salmon is B.C.’s highest valued seafood product. Farmed salmon is the province’s top agricultural export, and generates over $1.5-billion…
Shellfish aquaculture is the farming (i.e., cultivation and harvest) of aquatic invertebrates, such as oysters, clams and mussels. Cultivation implies…
Shellfish farms are located primarily around the west coast of Vancouver Island and in the Georgia Basin. The cool, nutrient-rich…
In Canada, the main species of shellfish farmed commercially are clams, geoducks, mussels, oysters and scallops. Clams The Manila Clam…
After more than a decade of U.S.-funded attacks targeted exclusively on B.C.’s salmon farm industry, the tide is finally turning.…
B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham was accused of intimidation on Monday for her handling of a letter to a fish…
Sport fishing occurs both in tidal and non-tidal (fresh) waters throughout the province of British Columbia. British Columbia has a…