PAA Notice: Summary of News, New Letters and Blog for week of June 25-29, 2012
BC's largest aquaculture firm now supplying certified salmon
Marine Harvest Canada Campbell River, June 28th, 2012
The bar has been raised for British Columbia's largest agricultural export. Marine Harvest Canada (MHC), BC's largest supplier of BC farm-raised salmon, announced today that it has achieved the Global Aquaculture Alliance's Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) certification at five marine salmon farm sites.
http://www.marineharvestcanada.com/aquaculture_company_supplying_certified_salmon.php
Eat salmon and trout- farmed or wild- it’s good for you
Canada: US professor confirms what food authorities everywhere are saying- pregnant women should eat such fish regularly
FishfarmingXpert, Odd Grydeland, June 27, 2012
http://www.fishfarmingxpert.com/index.php?page_id=76&article_id=95238
Blogs:
Going Green Good for Pattison’s Pocket Book
Protesting the Protesters, June 29, 2012
A common protest against salmon farms is that they are owned by multinational corporations. It seems that to these protesters big industry = bad. But when a large industry matches your world view it is ok and it doesn’t matter how much money they make or how many nations they are involved in because they agree with your beliefs. Two examples of this: the “wild” Alaskan fishery (marketing coordinated by ASMI) and Jim Pattison Group (which owns companies across Canada and the US). I have talked at length about the billion dollar Alaskan industry but what is going on with Jim Pattison Group (JPG)? June 28, 2012: Overwaitea Food Group, which is owned by JPG, achieved a “green” ranking in Greenpeace‘s seafood sustainability report by discontinuing “red-listed” items such as net-pen farmed salmon.
http://protestingtheprotesters.wordpress.com/2012/06/29/going-green-good-for-pattisons-pocket-book/
Morton’s latest error: dishonesty or ignorance?
Posted by salmonfarmscience, June 26, 2012
We really hate writing about Alexandra Morton, but the things she says about salmon farming are just plain wrong and need to be corrected. We’re sure she is a nice person, and seems very pleasant, but her scientific claims are nonsense. In her latest scaremongering post she makes an error which can only be interpreted as either deliberate — and therefore dishonest — or ignorance — and therefore showing she really knows nothing about what she is talking about.
http://salmonfarmscience.com/2012/06/26/mortons-latest-error-dishonesty-or-ignorance/
What do real environmentalists believe?
Rich Keller, Editor, Ag Professional | June 25, 2012
There are at least two types of environmental activists, according to the descriptions provided by Patrick Moore, an original founder of Greenpeace, who quit the organization after 15 years, and wrote the book Confessions of a Greenpeace Drop Out.
He contends there are 11 points that a sensible environmentalist should support, which are the points he supports:
...8. Embrace aquaculture as a sustainable industry
http://www.agprofessional.com/news/What-do-real-environmentalists-believe-160223595.html
Fisheries
Government of Canada Takes Next Steps to Strengthen the Protection of Canadian Fisheries
OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Jun 27, 2012 - The Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, today announced that Fisheries and Oceans Canada is taking the next steps in its new approach to protect recreational, commercial and Aboriginal fisheries and the fish habitat on which they depend. As a part of this new approach, the Minister launched a nationwide public engagement and consultations process to be held throughout the summer and fall to develop the policy and regulatory framework that will support changes to the Fisheries Act adopted by the House of Commons earlier this month.
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/npress-communique/2012/hq-ac18-eng.htm
'Incredible natural spectacle' as record numbers of sockeye salmon return to Northwest
Fish cross dam at rate of nearly 30 a minute as more return in a single day than some previous years
By JEFF BARNARD, AP Environmental Writer, June 27, 2012
Record numbers of a once-waning population of sockeye salmon have been returning to the Northwest's Columbia Basin this summer, with thousands more crossing the river's dams in a single day than the total numbers seen in some previous years...Though poor ocean conditions have been blamed for a nosedive in chinook salmon in Alaska this year, sockeye have done well, not only in the Columbia, but in Canadian and Alaskan rivers as well.
"Whatever is going on in the ocean is basically being good to sockeye," said Tweit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47991126/ns/us_news-environment/#.T-xrXfUZuk8
Decline in king salmon is rooted in the sea, state biologists say
Whatever's plaguing state's salmon isn't in the rivers, experts say.
By RICHARD MAUER, Anchorage Daily News, Published: June 24th, 2012
..."Salmon populations are cyclic in nature," he said. "Right now, I have no reason to believe this is not just the bottom end of a cycle and that we won't come out of this cycle -- you see that in all game populations. But there are a lot of changes going on in the ocean environment right now surrounding global warming. Our understanding of what that's going to do to anadromous species we probably won't know for a number of years."
http://www.adn.com/2012/06/23/2517571/decline-in-king-salmon-is-rooted.html
Biologists look to ocean for clues in Alaska king salmon collapse
Alaska Dispatch, Craig Medred | Jun 28, 2012
What scientists know about the working of the ecosystem beneath the storm-swept waters of Alaska is a lot and almost nothing. Because for all that is known, no one has a clue as to the latest fishery mystery that has so many in the 49th state talking: Where have all the king salmon gone?
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/biologists-look-ocean-clues-alaska-king-salmon-collapse
