British Columbia

Veteran U.S.-based fisheries scientist says Ottawa risks repeating Washington State’s aquaculture policy failure with its plan to ban ocean salmon farming in BC.

Ending the proposed ocean salmon farming ban in BC is the clearest signal PM Mark Carney can send to show that his environmental policy on aquaculture will be guided by …

Seafood is expected to see the smallest price increase next year, even as trade uncertainty and salmon farming policy disputes in BC raise concerns about future supply and affordability.

New federal data show modest growth in farmed seafood production, but a decade after peaking, Canada’s aquaculture sector remains deeply constrained by policy uncertainty as global competitors scale up.

British Columbia’s ‘Look West Plan’ calls for export growth, food security and Indigenous opportunity, but its silence on salmon aquaculture exposes a government pulling its own goals in opposite directions.

A sweeping international review warns that Canada’s move to ban ocean salmon farms in British Columbia casts aside decades of science, threatens the stability of coastal communities, and does almost …

More than 70 companies warn that Ottawa’s policy uncertainty is pushing Vancouver Island communities toward an economic breaking point, urging Premier David Eby to support a stable, Indigenous-led path forward …

The right to say no to salmon farming also includes the right to say yes. When First Nations choose to work with the aquaculture industry, that decision must be respected, …

A new economic outlook warns Vancouver Island has reached the limits of population-driven growth. To sustain jobs and families in coastal communities, the region needs export industries like aquaculture that …

A look at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pre-budget speech through the eyes of Canada’s seafood farmers, who know aquaculture is a ready-made solution to the bold economic future that he …

Canada’s farmed seafood production has fallen to a decade low, even as the United States advances national legislation to expand aquaculture for food security and coastal growth.

This Thanksgiving season, a new campaign is shining a light on farmers, on land and at sea, and the innovations shaping a more sustainable food future for Canada. By Fabian …

A new EAT–Lancet Commission report highlights aquaculture as a cornerstone of future food systems, laying bare why Canada needs to grow its seafood farming sector and scrap the activist-induced plan …

At the Get It Done BC forum, mayors warn that rural communities and industries like aquaculture, forestry, and mining face collapse unless the provincial government steps up to defend them.

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 …

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 …

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 …

Hundreds gather in Campbell River to support local food bank and push back on federal plan to phase out ocean salmon farming, warning of job losses and deepening hardship in …

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

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.

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 …

First, I want to be clear that although the topic of this op-ed is my viewpoint from supporting First Nations working with salmon farming in their territories, I am not …

Anti-salmon farming activists’ flush facts for clickbait and poop-fueled outrage, as their video “evidence” floats on fiction and flounders in fact.

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.

A comprehensive peer-reviewed study debunks the false claim by anti-aquaculture activists that ‘no salmon farms mean no sea lice’.