Fish Farming

• Study by conservation group finds elevated pathogen levels near B.C. fish farms

  The Pacific Salmon Foundation says it found that water near active open-net farms contains four times more pathogens harmful to wild salmon than water near inactive farms.

  Environment

  Apr 17, 2025
  
• Ending net-pen salmon farming costly, says industry-commissioned report

  A report commissioned by the BC Salmon Farmers Association says the proposed federal ban on marine net-pens in B.C. would cost taxpayers billions and have "severe consequences."

  Science

  Nov 28, 2024
  
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• Federal government stands by B.C. salmon farm closures

  Ottawa is standing by its decision not to renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms in British Columbia's Discovery Islands, despite recent court challenges.

  Environment

  Mar 23, 2023
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• Federal decision to shut down B.C. salmon farms prompts company court challenge

  The farms off B.C.'s coast have been a major flashpoint with environmental groups and some First Nations saying the farms are linked to disease that transfers to wild salmon.

  Environment

  Mar 21, 2023
• Washington won’t renew leases for Puget Sound fish farms

  Investigators found as many as 263,000 of the Cypress Island farm’s fish escaped in a 2017 incident, not the 160,000 Cooke Aquaculture told the public.

  Canada

  Nov 15, 2022
• Lack of fairness prompts Federal Court to set aside B.C. fish farm phaseout

  The BC Salmon Farmers Association said it was encouraged by the decision, however it declined an interview request while it is reviewed the ruling more closely.

  Politics

  Apr 27, 2022
• Public rally held in Upper Tantallon in opposition to open-pen salmon fish farms

  The session was held in opposition of the Nova Scotia government’s plan to impose industrial scale open-net pen fish farming in Atlantic waters.

  Environment

  Mar 1, 2020
• Environmentalists, fish farm spar over mass fish die-off at Vancouver Island facility

  The operations are based in an area that is part of the UNESCO Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve, in the territory of the Ahousaht First Nation.

  Environment

  Nov 25, 2019
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• The world has an unsustainable appetite for fish, UN warns

  A third of the world’s oceans are overfished and fish consumption is at an all-time high, the United Nations warns.

  Environment

  Jul 10, 2018
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• New study shows B.C. wild salmon are being infected by virus coming from fish farms

  Researchers say the infected wild salmon are struggling to swim upstream, which "means they're not spawning."

  Environment

  Dec 14, 2017