The more British Columbians get involved in decisions about how and where our food is produced, the better it will…
A group of activists boarded the Burdwood salmon farm yesterday, and illegally launched kayaks and divers into a pen holding…
By Fabian Dawson Seawest News In pursuit of app-iness, Joseph Lee and Robert Kirstiuk want to get fresh with you.…
BC salmon are raised with passion and good food as well as the latest in science and technology. Healthy, well-informed,…
BC Seafood and Shellfish Festival 2017 Chef Dang, West Restaurant, South Granville (Now at Araxi Restaurant, see update and link…
Fanny Bay BC Oysters Bar is Vancouver's only 100 per cent tide to table restaurant here on Cambie. Chef Andrazza…
BC spot prawns season is a huge favourite amongst Vancouver and Vancouver Island chefs. Chef Aaron Rail, White Whale Restaurant,…
A gorgeous clams dish by the chef of Blackfin Pub in Comox Valley, British Columbia. Chef Nigel McMeans, Blackfin Pub,…
BC mussels are sweet and succulent, fresh as the ocean, and grown with love and passion. Chef Ronald St. Pierre's…
“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.…