Salmon Farming

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Protecting Wild Fish from Aquaculture Threats

As currently practised, salmon aquaculture (fish farming) is a major threat to wild salmon, the world over. Watershed Watch is a leader in BC at publicizing this wild salmon threat. To eliminate aquaculture problems, Watershed Watch conducts education and outreach programs and negotiates directly with industry. Watershed Watch is a founding member of the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, and also represents the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council in a study of salmon farm clam contamination.

Watershed Watch's reports on aquaculture include:

• Estimated Sea Louse Egg Production from Marine Harvest Canada Farmed Atlantic Salmon in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia, 2003-2004 Craig Orr 2007, NAJFM 27:187-197
• Sea Lice and Salmon: BC Briefing Note Craig Orr 2005, for CAAR
• Sea Lice and Salmon: Elevating the dialogue on the farmed-wild salmon story Watershed Watch 2004
• Salmon Farms, Sea Lice and Wild Salmon: A Watershed Watch Report on Risk, Responsibility and the Public Interest Watershed Watch 2001

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