Foodservice Honours for BC's Salmon Industry
CANADA - British Columbia Salmon Farmers has received Special Recognition Award for their outstanding samples of farm-raised Atlantic salmon.

Leading the Field Through Dialogue and Co-operation
CANADA - New Brunswick's salmon farmers are creating local solutions to the global challenge of seafood sustainability.

Charr Partnership for First Nation and Top Producer
NOVA SCOTIA - Arctic Charr specialist Icy Waters has joined forces with the Millbrook First Nation to form an international partnership that will produce and market the premium quality freshwater finfish.

Shellfish Opportunity May at Last Bear Fruit
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Don Tillapaugh, Director of Nanaimo's Centre for Shellfish Research says greater investment in British Columbia's shellfish industry will help it realise its true potential.

Aquaculture: Mutual Interests for Atlantic Ministers
CANADA - Politicians representing Canada's Atlantic provinces have reached regional agreements in six key areas and four themes of importance - and one of them is aquaculture.

First Nation Wants Fish Farm Re-location
CANADA - Ahousaht First Nation will not support Mainstream Canada’s application to renew a fish-farm tenure at Dixon Bay.

Quality Focus For Cooke's New Salmon Plant
NEWFOUNDLAND - Cooke Aquaculture has started processing salmon at the refurbished Harbour Breton fish plant.

Green Denial: Malachite Traces in Clayoquot Fish
BRITISH COLUMBIA - A Tofino-area salmon farm has suspended operations after traces of Malachite Green were found in products bound for the US seafood market.

Government Reports Show High Compliance, But Critics Not Convinced
VICTORIA – Provincial reports on British Columbia's aquaculture sector show that the industry is committed to upholding a high level of environmental standards and is serious about co-existing with wild salmon stocks. However, critics have dubbed the...

Aquaculture Operators Seek Funding to Improve Bio-security Infrastructure
CANADA - It might be a long walk on a short wharf for aquaculture operators on the south coast seeking provincial help to build infrastructure to help prevent the spread of disease in farmed fish.

Salmon Forum Loses Credibility as it Mires Itself in Wrangling
BRITISH COLUMBIA - The BC Pacific Salmon Forum was set up in December 2004 by Premier Gordon Campbell. The government-funded research body was to pull together bulletproof science that would settle long-running arguments over whether fish farms threaten...

Opportunities Exist Even in Bad Times
NEW BRUNSWICK - When just about everyone’s losing money—which happens in every sector of agriculture at one time or another—it’s easy to lose faith, writes Glenn Cheater.

Energy Co Aquires Agrimarine
VANCOUVER - AXEA Energy Inc, a capital pool company has announced that it entered into an agreement at the end of December 2007 for the arm's length acquisition of 100 per cent of the common shares of Agrimarine Industries Inc.

Salmon Forum Questions Fish-Farm Study
CANADA - Members of the Pacific Salmon Forum are questioning a recently published report in the journal Science that argues wild-salmon stocks in the Broughton Archipelago could soon collapse because of sea lice.

BC Wild Salmon in Danger of Extinction
CANADA - Five years ago, a senior fisheries biologist in Galway, Ireland, warned what lay ahead for British Columbia's wild salmon: Infestations of sea lice around fish farms followed by a collapse of wild stocks wherever baby salmon migrated through...

Lice Research Deals Blow to Fish Farming
CANADA - Rather than benefiting wild fish, industrial aquaculture may contribute to declines in ocean fisheries and ecosystems.

Study Suggests Big Risks with Fish Farms
CANADA - A study published in the journal Science has issued a warning that disease could spread from farmed fish to wild stocks.

Livestock Industry Legislation Streamlined
EDMONTON- Alberta has taken another step toward a more effective and efficient livestock industry with the introduction of Bill 47, the Livestock Commerce and Animal Inspection Statutes Amendment Act.

New Pressure Group Attacks Aquaculture Policy
CANADA - A group of British Columbia business people have placed an advert in a national newspaper criticising current Government aquaculture policy.

BC salmon farm spends $1million on predator nets
CANADA - A British Columbian fish farm that found more than 100 sea lions drowned in its nets last year, has spent more than $1million improving its fish pens and the spacing between layers of nets.

Salmon escape from island fish farm
CANADA - They’ve received public support from some of BC’s biggest environmental group, but this week a Campbell River-based salmon farm lost at least two chinook when a closed-containment system failed.

Few BC-born salmon returning to spawn
CANADA - Salmon returns are down significantly around British Columbia, experts say, with the number of chinook migrating to their birthplace on Vancouver Island falling by as much as 75 per cent and a "collapse" of the chum run in parts of the Squamish...