Calls for International Food Safety Standards
CANADA - A professor with the University of Manitoba is calling for international standards for the approval of health claims on food product labels, writes Bruce...

Mass Salmon Escape from BC Farm
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - The latest mass escape from a BC fish farm has prompted renewed calls from the National Democratic Party to change how the farms are ...

Protest over Threat to Wild Salmon
CANADA - More than 700 protestors turned out at the weekend for a rally to protest over the threat to wild salmon stocks.

Antiparasitic Drug for Farmed Salmon Gains Approval
CANADA - SLICE® (emamectin benzoate), a leading product for controlling immature and adult stages of sea lice in farm-raised salmon, has received full approval from...

CA$413,000 to Study Sea Lice at VIU
CANADA - Vancouver Island University professor Dr. Duane Barker has received a three-year $413,000 research grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research...

Reduced Sea Lice Brings Hope, but No Promise
BROUGHTON ARCHIPELAGO, CANADA - The preliminary results from the 2009 Coordinated Area Management Plan (CAMP) released by the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture...

Monitoring and Managing B.C. Sea Lice
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - The out migration of young salmon in the Broughton Archipelago is now complete, says BC Salmon Farmers Association. They say, throughout...

Chile's Virus Unlikely to Spread in British Columbia
CHILE - The virus that has crippled Chile's farmed salmon industry is extremely unlikely to appear at B.C.'s fish farms, says Clare Backman, environmental relations...

Protecting Migrating Salmon
CANADA - Claims have been made that salmon farms near Campbell River are having a negative effect on wild fish –especially sockeye.

BC Salmon Farmers Defend Their Practices
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Claims have been made that salmon farms near Campbell River are having a negative effect on wild fish –especially sockeye, but the British...

Canada Closes North Beds for Mussel Harvesting
CANADA - Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Quebec Region, is warning the public on the North Shore that the gathering of mussels is prohibited on all North Shore shellfish...

Moving Salmon Nets May Control Parasite Spread
GUELPH, CANADA - Researchers at the University of Guelph have used DNA barcoding techniques to shed new light on controlling the spread of the salmon louse, a...

DNA Markers Identify Threat of Salmon Farm Lice
VANCOUVER, CANADA — DNA research at the University of Guelph has provided insight into a perplexing environmental problem on British Columbia's west coast, where...

Ocean Smart Begins Expansion Process
CANADA - Ocean Smart Inc. has announced that it has engaged European-based International Investment Consulting Company S.A. to provide strategic public relations,...

Study Reveals Genetic Differences in Sea Louse
CANADA - Sea lice found in the Pacific Ocean are very different genetically from sea lice in the Atlantic Ocean, a study team co-led by a University of Victoria...

BC Citizens Demand Salmon Farm Rules
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A letter that was signed by almost ten thousand BC citizens demands that the Fisheries Act be applied to salmon farms.

Fraser River Sockeye not at Risk From Fish Farms
CANADA - Marine Harvest has retaliated to claims that Fraser River sockeye are at risk from salmon farms, saying that their practises ensure that the effects are...

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.

Genetics Tell the Secrets of Salmon Nemesis
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - New research is uncovering the genetic secrets of BC’s most notorious marine parasite.

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Closed-containment Salmon Opportunity in Canada
CANADA - The development of a new closed-containment salmon farm has New Democrats excited about the future of the aquaculture industry in British Columbia, and...

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...