May 23, 2014
The following is a recap of news items about Salmon Farming we found of interest this week:
Fish farmers can take criticism, but not the B.S.
Campbell River Mirror, By PAUL RUDAN, May 16, 2014
Sunday dinner probably wasn’t sitting well in the stomachs of local fish farmers when they sat down to watch 60 Minutes. You never know how these things will go when you’re under the microscope of an American “newsmagazine” program...The segment seemed balanced enough, but I doubt that Americans really know, or care, too much about where their salmon is coming from. What they want is fresh fish when they go out to their favourite restaurants and our local salmon farms can provide that product year-round...The latest so-called study, “Occupancy dynamics of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon in Canadian Pacific coastal salmon streams: implications for sustained invasions,” suggests that fish farmers underestimate the number of escapees and these rogue salmon are living in local streams for multiple years. I say B.S…
Salmon Farming Controversy
Campbell River Mirror, Patrick Moore comments on Salmon Farming Controversy
It is very refreshing to hear that a fairly balanced piece has been done on salmon farming in BC. Greenpeace, David Suzuki, Alexandra Morton and many others have fought a mean war against the industry for decades, claiming it is destroying wild salmon. Meanwhile wild salmon returns are on the increase, partly due to less wild fish being taken, due to farmed fish being available fresh year-round at a lower price because you don’t have to chase farmed salmon around the ocean in diesel-powered boats. The salmon farming industry takes pressure off wild stocks (environmental), provides year-round jobs in remote coastal communities (economic) and produces a lot of one of the healthiest foods at a reasonable price (social/health).
Salmon Farm Science Blogger “Touched a Nerve”
Activist Alexandra Morton makes her lie even bigger
Salmon Farm Science, 2014/05/20 s
It would appear I touched a nerve with this post last week. Annoyed by being caught in a lie, Alexandra Morton mobilized her followers to copy-paste this in the comments section:
Activist Alexandra Morton lies on national TV
Salmon Farm Science, May 12, 2014
CBS’ famous 60 Minutes program recently aired several segments about salmon farming, and they were actually pretty fair.
Of Interest
Salmon: Wild versus Farmed– how an Alaska Native Learned to Love Farmed Salmon
Doctors’ Orders, Terry Simpson, May 21, 2014
...Complete with the prejudice came the propaganda about farmed salmon – and armed with those it was easy to think that there was only one real salmon to enjoy – the lovely, albeit expensive wild Alaska salmon....When the veil of prejudice lifts, one begins to investigate the propaganda to see if those old “assumptions” have any merit.
BCSFA Summer 2014 Newsletter
Inside: The View from Here | On the World Stage | Senators impressed by BC farmers | Open season for farm tour program | New reports hold salmon farming around the globe at red and more.
News: ‘Environmentalism has become a religion’
Spiked, Thilo Spahl, May 19, 2014
Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace, on where greens went badly wrong..."... Greenpeace is fighting simultaneously against overfishing and aquaculture. Greenpeace is also against high-performance agriculture and for the preservation of biodiversity. But aquaculture is the only way to produce a lot of fish without endangering natural resources. And intensive agriculture is the only way to feed humanity without turning the whole of nature into farmland. If you are against both, this means that there are a few billion too many people on the planet and it’s all about how to get rid of them or ignore them somehow...."
If David Suzuki is cavalier when it comes to science, on issues of economics he is out to lunch
Financial Post, Peter Foster | May 21, 2014
Meet Dr. Suzuki and Mr. Hyde, to whom economics is the product of “brain damage”
