salmon farming

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.

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 …

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.

As Indigenous leaders assert rights, fishers demand fairness, and anti-aquaculture activists try to shape policy, PM Carney must steer through Canada’s most politically charged coastal crisis.

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.

“It’s been blow after blow…But finally, there’s a spark. People are realising this industry creates jobs, feeds Canadians, and supports coastal communities.”

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’.

“Currently, there is a profound policy disconnect between Ottawa’s rhetoric on food security, Indigenous rights, and job creation, and its actions on aquaculture”

As Parliament is set to resume, Western Canadian business leaders are urging MPs to scrap harmful policies and back salmon farming as part of a resource-driven economic reset

Seafood farmers, First Nations welcome Joanne Thompson’s return as Fisheries Minister and Jonathan Wilkinson’s exit from cabinet as signs of a science-based, indigenous-led reset for salmon aquaculture.

Activists are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to appoint a Fisheries Minister, who will echo their falsehoods about salmon farming in British Columbia, fearing his pick this week could …

Canada’s top food policy experts have just issued a blunt warning: protein prices are rising, food bank use is surging, and Canadians are increasingly struggling to afford the basics.

Despite booming seal and sea lion populations, BC salmon farms report low interactions thanks to science-driven deterrents and proactive mitigation strategies.

France is poised to implement a decade-long moratorium on new land-based salmon farms, reflecting growing global skepticism about the readiness and viability of this emerging aquaculture technology.

“We need a government that respects our rights to chart our own economic futures, not one that listens only to the loudest activists…We are hopeful that Prime Minister Mark Carney …

Take this quiz and see how your knowledge stacks up against the misinformation spread by activists and the politicians echoing them during the 2025 federal election.

‘Farmers of the Water’ toolkit aims to debunk anti-fish farming myths and empower students to become sustainable aquaculture advocates

Fisheries experts are warning Ottawa not to justify its plan to ban B.C. salmon farms based on a newly released “flawed study,” saying the findings lack scientific credibility and show …

The First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance, which counts the Gitanyow among its allies, talks a big game about Indigenous rights, but those rights seem to matter only when they align …

Court ruling highlights federal disregard for credible science, activist-driven decisions, and significant economic harm to salmon farmers and aquaculture-related businesses in British Columbia.

Innovations in aquaculture together with a nationally connected, science-driven strategy could grow Canada’s Blue Economy fivefold to $220 billion by 2035, states a new report.

Land-based fish farming in the US is economically unviable, warns sector pioneer as activists push to transition BC from ocean-based salmon aquaculture.