PEI Minister Speaks out on Shellfish Harvesting Ban
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, CANADA - PEI's Minister of Fisheries has requested immediate testing of shellfish harvesting areas.

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...

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.

Port Mouton Bay Receives Moratorium on Farms
NEW ZEALAND - Nova Scotia Premier Rodney MacDonald announced an "indefinite" moratorium on more finfish aquaculture farming in bay Port Mouton Bay after years of...

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...

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...

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...

The Price of Farmed Salmon
CANADA - Salmon aquaculture is devastating the world's oceans and an international coalition of scientists, Canadian First Nations and tourism operators have called...

Polyculture Pioneers Seeks Sustainable Aquaculture
CANADA - A scientists from the University of Victoria is conducting research to devlop polyculture techniques for a self sufficient, resource recycling, aquaculture...