New Film Documents Issues of Salmon Farms
GLOBE - A new film is to be released in which prominent scientists and Canadian First Nation representatives speak their minds about the salmon farming industry...

Sustainable Milestone for Atlantic Salmon in America
CANADA - Cooke Aquaculture, under its marketing division, True North Salmon, is the first Canadian company to offer Eco Certified farmed Atlantic salmon in North...

Greenpeace Launches Video on Seafood Destruction
CANADA — Greenpeace launched a new video on Oceans Day to highlight concerns over the destruction of seafood and the world’s oceans.

Good News for BC Salmon Farmers
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - An article and editorial printed in yesterday's edition of “The Daily News” in Nanaimo provide refreshing perspective on the opportunities...

Canadians Celebrate World Ocean Day
OTTAWA, CANADA - The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, has spoken of the importance of World Oceans Day to Canadians.

Canadian Government Acts on Aquaculture Research
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA - The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, on behalf of the Honourable Gary Goodyear, Minister of State (Science...

Call for Help to Save Lobster Industry
CANADA - Fisheries organisations throughout Atlantic Canada have issued a joint call for provincial and federal fisheries ministers to convene an emergency meeting...

BC First Nations File Class-Action to Save Wild Salmon
CANADA - British Columbian First Nations say that the devastation of Broughton Wild Salmon leaves them no alternative but to file for class-action law suit.

Alarming Disappearance of P.E.I. Salmon Stocks
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA - The first comprehensive Atlantic salmon survey on Prince Edward Island (PEI) in almost a decade has revealed an alarming trend. The...

Funding Innovation in Quebec's Shellfish
QUEBEC, CANADA - Two innovative projects for improving the production and economic performance of Quebec's shellfish farming industry will receive the total sum...

Alarm as Fraser River Sockey Encounter Fish Farms
VANCOUVER, CANADA - The form letter that Premier Gordon Campbell and federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea keep ignoring is just getting longer.

Newfoundland Finds a Billion Dollars in Fish
CANADA - The Newfoundland and Labrador seafood industry experienced an excellent year of performance in 2008. The annual Seafood Year in Review report was released...

BC Fishermen Petition for Aquaculture Rules
CANADA - B.C. fishermen are demanding the federal government take responsibility for the salmon farming industry, and start applying the same rules to the controversial...

Farming in Nova Scotia: Fishermen Predict Disaster
NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA - “Friends of Port Mouton Bay” (FPMB) have called an emergency press conference to discuss and demonstrate the increasing pollution and resulting...

Aquaculture Thrives in Newfoundland
CANADA - Neighbouring provinces are being given some of the credit for the substantial growth in this province's aquaculture industry.

Lack of Closed Containment Funding Dismays CAAR
CANADA - The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform slammed the BC government for once again failing to invest in the development of a new, green technology industry...

Vancouver's Sustainable Path of Oyster Shells
CANADA - The road to a sustainable shellfish industry is to be paved with oyster shells.

Path Through Chaos: B.C. Rules in Favour of Fish
VANCOUVER, CANADA - The war over fish took a sustainable turn yesterday when a British Columbia Supreme Court judge ruled that the federal government - not the provinces...

Dramatic Change in B.C. Salmon Populations
CANADA - New research documents a "dramatic and alarming" decline in the survival of some salmon species in the waters of British Columbia, in the Georgia Strait,...

Call of Aquaculture Study Falls on Deaf Ears
CANADA - Although he won’t say it’s officially dead, newly-appointed Agriculture and Lands minister Ron Cantelon is looking beyond the study group he sat on to...

BC Salmon Report Finds a Better Way
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - The Pacific Salmon Forum has been praised for the release of their long-anticipated report. The report acknowledges the magnitude of the...

First Nations Sue: Wild Stock Caught in the Net
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Class-Action Law Suit to be launched by the Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-Kwa-Mish against the British Columbia Government to address the impacts...

Atlantic Innovation Fund Gets Started
CANADA - Several major research projects involving the fishing and aquaculture industry were included in the latest projects funded in P.E.I. under the Atlantic...

Finding a Medium for Open and Land Aquaculture
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - The open-net salmon farms that dot B.C.'s coastal water are spreading sea lice to wild stocks. But the alternative, land-based tanks,...

Ottawa Keeps the Faith in Aquaculture
OTTAWA, CANADA - Ottawa still believes in aquaculture despite lawsuits to recover money the federal government claims that some companies in the industry owe.