News we found of interest this week

Asian Pacific Post, January 10, 2015

In conjunction with Heart Month in Canada, Coast Fresh - a proud supporter of the Heart and Stroke Foundation, BC and Yukon - brings you a month of salmon recipes in The Province. Salmon, farmed or wild, provides numerous and significant nutritional benefits when eaten on a regular basis. “My salmon with walnut pesto and rice pilaf is a fine-dining meal anyone can create at home,”

 

BCSFA, February 11, 2015

• Twitter: Patricia Chuey @patriciachuey  ·  Salmon.Delicious+great for your heart. Perfect meal for Feb 14! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaYCcA2JA1Y … @BCSalmonFarmers #ValentinesDay #LoveYourHeart

By Gordon McIntyre, The Province February 12, 2015

In conjunction with Heart Month in Canada and Valentine’s Day, Coast Fresh and the Heart and Stroke Foundation, in partnership with The Province, commissioned the Mustel Group to poll B.C. residents to see what they’re doing to have heart-smart diets...In B.C., we’re lucky to have access to fresh salmon year-round — Pacific salmon in-season, farmed Atlantic salmon, steelhead, Coho and Chinook in winter — said Jeremy Dunn, executive director of the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association. "It’s great to see B.C. loves salmon and that B.C. loves fresh salmon,” Dunn said. “Freshness and cost were the two main determinants when people purchase salmon, so that’s key.”

PAA Note: There is a great video on how easy it is to prepare salmon embedded in this news item.

Press Association – February 12, 2015

Eating oily fish has long been known to keep your heart healthy but scientists have also found it can mend a damaged heart. Diets high in omega-3 fatty acid foods could also help fix damaged blood vessels faster, reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, a study has discovered.

 

As part of the routine requirements associated with applying for new salmon farming sites in British Columbia, the company conducted an Open House on Vancouver Island yesterday.

Odd Grydeland, FishfarmingXpert, February 11, 2015

Approximately 120 individuals from the aquaculture industry, First Nations, industry critics and government agencies showed up for the informal meeting in Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Island. During the period when FishfarmingXpert attended the meeting, the crowd was well behaved and courteous, despite opposing opinions about the appropriateness of farming salmon in the ocean - particularly Atlantic salmon in the Pacific Ocean.

 

Odd Grydeland, Campbell River Mirror, February 13, 2015

As one of the individuals that first identified the sites that Grieg Seafood is applying for as being suitable for aquaculture (shellfish and finfish), I strongly believe that these applications should be approved for the following reasons:

 

The extreme anti-salmon farming activist Alexandra Morton once again shows that her words can be far from the truth.

Odd Grydeland, FishfarmingXpert, February 12, 2015

PAA Note: PAA has this news item and picture posted on our News Page at: http://www.farmfreshsalmon.org/%E2%80%9Cdr%E2%80%9D-alexandra-morton-does-it-again

UBC News, February 10, 2015

Research into salmon, clean drinking water, river ecosystems, and wireless networks at the University of British Columbia received a $2.2 million boost in funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)...Colin Brauner, professor of Zoology Optimal rearing conditions for salmon growth in recirculating aquaculture systems – $605,252. The goal of this project is to determine the optimal environmental conditions for rearing Atlantic and coho salmon in recirculating aquaculture systems, along with industry and provincial government partners.

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Campbell River Courier-Islander, February 11, 2015

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Neil Cameron / Campbell River Courier Islander, February 12, 2015

 

Another new baby killer whale spotted off B.C. coast http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Another+baby+killer+whale+spotted+west+coast/10809759/story.html …

 

Great article in National Geographic putting the BC herring fishery in perspective. These tiny fish are a key food source for salmon and many other marine species, and also a focus of our Salish Sea Marine Survival Project.

 

2015/02/11 salmonfarmscience

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) has been stocking Atlantic salmon for sport fishing since 1958...A lot of people probably had no idea the lake’s been stocked with Atlantic salmon for that long.

My Central Oregon, February 2015

Bend, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife will outline changes to the fish stocking program at Hosmer Lake at a Feb. 17 meeting in Bend....For years, Hosmer Lake has been the only place in Oregon where anglers could fish for Atlantic salmon...“I understand that there are anglers disappointed about ending the Atlantic salmon program,”

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