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Sockeye salmon are growing faster due to climate change

However, it’s not a given that bigger is always better states a new study from Simon Fraser University By Rochelle BakerLocal…

4 months ago

Patagonia’s hypocrisy displayed in new anti-salmon farming book

“Patagonia’s campaigns against salmon farming, books and films are all about creating traction for its expensive and exclusive products…its hypocrisy.”…

12 months ago

First Nations suffer to save salmon stocks

“We can smell the salmon in the river when they're running, but we cannot go out and fish” By Rochelle Baker,…

1 year ago

Seafood sustainability champ to helm BC Salmon Farmers Association

“We need to find ways to produce a lot more seafood, not just salmon and we need to do it…

1 year ago

BC’s anti-salmon farming activist gets it wrong again

No link between wild salmon returns in British Columbia and active salmon farms By Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews British Columbia’s anti-fish farming…

2 years ago

US federal agency debunks fake claims by anti-aquaculture activists

In a new study, American fisheries scientists concur with their counterparts in Canada and Scotland that marine finfish aquaculture has…

2 years ago

Science sleuths to study deep sea salmon secrets

Four vessels and more than 60 international scientists from Canada, Japan, the U.S., Russia and Korea are taking part in…

2 years ago

Commercial fishers in Alaska ‘plundering’ threatened B.C. salmon

Nearly 800,000 sockeye salmon were caught in Alaskan fishing districts just north of the border in 2021, and most of…

2 years ago

BC’s Blue Revolution with Matt McGoveran

"The most critical issue facing the aquaculture industry is the amount of misinformation that the media and a few individuals…

3 years ago

Beyond the decision to close salmon farms in the Discovery Islands

MP and husband hold celebratory dinner as North Vancouver Island reacts to the closure of salmon farms in the Discovery…

3 years ago

Beyond the headlines about salmon aquaculture

Recent studies by anti-fish farm activist-scientists hide inconvenient truths about sustainable salmon aquaculture in Canada By Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews The recent…

4 years ago

Anti-fish farm activist’s numbers don’t add up

“Miraculous” salmon comeback is either an immaculate conception or a backfiring concoction CommentaryBy Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews Today’s world, driven by social…

4 years ago

Destroying a fishery will not save Southern Resident Killer Whales

“Taking legal action to shut down a scientifically managed and authorized troll salmon fishery will do little or nothing for…

4 years ago

Passing thoughts about wild salmon near fish farms

Canadian researchers describe key finding in new fish health study as “contrary to our expectation” about wild salmon passing fish…

4 years ago

Landslide blocking migrating salmon is “spectacular” as it is “daunting”

"There is no higher priority for me and for my department in British Columbia than addressing the Big Bar landslide…

4 years ago

Low FODMAP Salmon Curry

A low FODMAP salmon curry doesn’t sound right, or does it? Anything is possible if we want it badly enough.…

4 years ago

“it’s now time to harvest or cull the seals and sea lions”

“The greatest road to extinction of salmon is all due to overpopulation of seals and sea lions” - Thomas Sewid…

4 years ago

Fish farms do not need to test for B.C. strain of virus

Decision follows an eight-month scientific review on the issue of transfer of live fish from land-based hatcheries to open-ocean net…

5 years ago

It’s not about wild first, it’s about votes first

Where is the application of the precautionary principle to protect wild salmon when it comes to the Trans Mountain oil…

5 years ago

Five new B.C. programs to enhance salmon habitat

“We’re taking steps to promote long-term and sustainable salmon runs in B.C.” - Lana Popham, BC Minister of Agriculture By…

5 years ago

Salmon – who is catching what where

A look by the numbers of last year’s record global Pacific salmon catch By SeaWestNews 651 million - Commercial fishermen…

5 years ago

Wild smoked salmon product recalled after Listeria fears

Western Family Original Wild Sockeye Smoked Salmon Nuggets recalled due to Listeria monocytogenes By SeaWestNews The Canadian Food Inspection Agency…

5 years ago

New $142 million fund to enhance B.C. fisheries

Money will be used to leverage local Indigenous monitoring, guardianship programs and community-led habitat restoration efforts By SeaWestNews Ottawa and…

5 years ago

New studies reaffirm PRV is not a salmon killer

Two new scientific studies dismantle key claims made in court by fish farm opponents. By Fabian DawsonSeaWestNews Two new studies…

5 years ago

So how do we farm salmon in the future?

New study will look at the impact of land-based and ocean-based closed-containment salmon farms in British Columbia, as well as…

5 years ago

Scientists set sail to unlock salmon secrets

“We are all anxious to see and learn about the findings, so that we can better tackle the problems together,”…

5 years ago

Virus poses minimal risk to Fraser River sockeye salmon

“Unfortunately, some Canadian government non-medical researchers aligned with US and Canadian activists are attempting to make this mostly innocuous virus…

5 years ago

Aquaculture Ambassador: Kathleen Allen 

“Part of the reason I like aquaculture is because we are not an industry that gets to rest on our…

5 years ago

“It is clear the world needs aquaculture.”

“Currently, over 90% of the planet’s wild fish stocks are being either fished to the legal maximum or overfished. It…

5 years ago

Observations of a river snorkeler

“The power of the fish, of the river, it's an awesome encounter’ – Chris Walling By SeaWestNews Chris Walling of…

5 years ago