Posted in Watershed Watch in the Media Filed In: Salmon Farming |
Tagged Craig Orr, PLoS One, salmon farming, sea lice |
Posted by Trish Hall on February 21, 2011
Watershed Watch Executive Director, Craig Orr, responds to Mary Ellen-Walling’s letter Industry disputes fish farm sea lice is harming wild salmon, Vancouver Sun Letters, Feb. 17, in the letter to the editor The relevance of sea lice, toxins and fish …
Posted in Conservation News, Take Action Filed In: Salmon Farming |
Tagged CAAR, Conville Bay, salmon farming, sockeye, Spring Cleaning Crew, Wild Salmon Narrows |
Posted by Trish Hall on February 19, 2011
Michelle Young of the Georgia Strait Alliance and the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform’s blog post Salmon farming industry puts wild salmon at increased risk by reactivating farm along Wild Salmon Narrows migration route provides details on the reactivation of …
Posted in Conservation News, Policy and Management, Watershed Watch Activities, Watershed Watch in the Media Filed In: Salmon Farming |
Tagged CAAR, media, pesticide, policy, regulations, salmon farming, Watershed Watch |
Posted by Trish Hall on February 17, 2011
Watershed Watch Salmon Society is one of 19 groups, representing thousands of Canadians, that have signed on to a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper regarding pesticide use by the salmon farming industry. For more information see the full media …
Posted in Science and Research, Watershed Watch Activities, Watershed Watch in the Media Filed In: Salmon Habitat |
Tagged PLoS One, research, salmon farming, science, sea lice |
Posted by Trish Hall on February 8, 2011
A new study Sea Louse Infection of Juvenile Sockeye Salmon in Relation to Marine Salmon Farms on Canada’s West Coast published today in the journal Public Library of Science ONE by researchers from Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Watershed Watch Salmon Society, …
Posted in Conservation News Filed In: Salmon Farming |
Tagged AgriMarine, closed containment, salmon farming |
Posted by Trish Hall on February 3, 2011
The Globe and Mail article BC developer touts salmon-rearing tank over fish farms interviews Richard Buchanan, CEO of AgriMarine Holdings as he provides comments on the development of the first ocean-based salmon-rearing tank. Buchanan says his system “will prove that …
