Government Invests $1.1 Million in Aquaculture
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND - The Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, has announced a $1,097,000 cash boost for the aquaculture sector. The money has been awarded to the Canadian Aquaculture...

Ritz to visit Prince Edward Island to announce Alliance funding
CANADA - The Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, will be in Springbrook, near Charlottetown on 27 September 2007.

Climate change brings ups and downs for lobster
CANADA - Global warming is leading to complicated and unexpected changes for the lobster industry, say scientists gathered at an international conference in Charlottetown.

Fish farmers advised to add plants
CANADA - A farmer whose sole product is fish can harvest bigger profits if a vegetable or herb crop is added to the system, said presenters at a conference on aquaculture.

Continued opposition to salmon farming in British Columbia
CANADA - On September 17, 2007, thirty-three notable scientists sent an open letter to Prime Minister Stephan Harper and Premier Gordon Campbell regarding the threat to British Columbia’s wild Pacific salmon from sea lice due to farmed salmon.

Lice from fish farms called threat
CANADA - Eighteen prominent scientists and researchers say there is no question that sea lice from fish farms are lethal to wild salmon, no evidence to the contrary and a need for greater protection.

International call to end open-net farms
CANADA - Renewed calls to reform salmon farming practices around the world were issued internationally Tuesday by environmental groups and scientists who asserted that the farms will soon push many wild salmon populations to extinction.

Fish farms slammed
CANADA - Wild salmon advocates on both coasts have targeted aquaculture operations, calling for major changes within the farmed-salmon industry.

Protecting Wild Salmon
CANADA - Recently a group of individuals wrote an open letter calling for action to protect wild salmon. At the British Columbia Salmon Farmers Association, we understand there are many threats to wild salmon and support the efforts of scientists to determine...

Study proves link between emissions and mercury pollution in fish
CANADA - A groundbreaking environmental study to be published in a prestigious American science journal proves that mercury atmospheric emissions will end up in fish in as little as three years. Biologists from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada,...

Develop fish farm industry — official
CANADA - Aquaculture produces close to 50 per cent of the marketable fish and seafood produced in Nova Scotia, Canada’s top fish-producing province, says a provincial representative.

New fish farm tested
CANADA - British Columbia's first closed-containment salmon farm is going ahead at Middle Point near Campbell River, using a bag system for small fish and moving to solid-wall containers floating in the ocean as they grow.

Festival to celebrate valuable industry
CANADA - Nova Scotia's aquaculture industry will be celebrated this Saturday (September 15) at the Aquaculture Harvest Festival in Shelburne.

Fishing for the truth: Farmed Salmon's not all bad
CANADA - For once, low summer Fraser River sockeye runs are not being blamed on salmon farming. Which is surprising, considering that almost every other negative impact on British Columbia's wild fish stocks seem to be pinned on the salmon business.

Company takes action following net breach
CANADA - On 4 September, during a routine harvesting of fish from a Tofino farm, owned by Mainstream Canada working in agreement with the Ahousaht First Nation, a site worker observed fish in the containment netting which is the external net that protects...

Salmon escape raises alarm over open-net cages
CANADA - An escape of farmed Atlantic salmon from an open-net cage near Campbell River last Thursday is raising fresh concerns about farming practices in British Columbia.

Mussel pest threatens aquaculture
CANADA - An invasive species that's eating into the profits of Prince Edward Island's (PEI) aquaculture industry is spreading.

Association To Debate Organic Farmed Salmon
CANADA - An association representing BC’s organic agri-food industry may discuss whether some farmed finfish and shellfish can be certified during a meeting this month.

Lobster summit will focus on marketing and economics
CANADA - A lobster summit is planned for October, but unlike lobster sessions that usually focus on conservation or science, this one is targeting marketing and economics.

BC salmon farmers throw in towel
VANCOUVER - Some of the top workers in British Columbia's salmon industry are leaving to nurture ocean farms elsewhere as they grow tired of working in a province in which strident environmental opposition has all but closed off expansion plans - and,...

Province sanctions two new aquaculture licences
VICTORIA - The Ministry of Agriculture and Lands has issued a new finfish aquaculture licence to Grieg Seafood for a site in Nootka Sound.

Salmon farm approved, geoduck proposal nixed
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The BC government has yet to formally respond to an all-party committee's recommendation in May that open-net pen salmon farming be phased out, but its actions since offer a strong hint about its stance.