PAA Notice: Summary of News, Newletters, Blogs for week June 9 to 13, 2012
Correction/Clarification: Online Petition created by Alexandra Morton, May 2012
BCSFA, June 8, 2012
In May 2012, Alexandra Morton posted an online petition at www.change.org suggesting that farm-raised salmon is unsafe to eat….Members of the BC Salmon Farms Association would like to correct some of the most obvious erroneous and misleading statements within the petition…
http://www.salmonfarmers.org/sites/default/files/morton-petition.pdf
New information brochure arriving in local communities
BCSFA, Tuesday, June 12, 2012
The newest edition of an annual information update by BC’s salmon farmers is now arriving in the mail of area homes…
http://www.salmonfarmers.org/new-information-brochure-arriving-local-communities
Expansion of Best Aquaculture Practices Certification at More Skuna Bay Farms: All Skuna Bay Salmon Now BAP Certified
Skuna Bay, June 11, 2012
http://www.skunasalmon.com/news
Aquaculture training means jobs for the Island
BC News Room, June 14, 2012
VICTORIA - Sixty people on northern Vancouver Island are beginning a 25-week training program to learn the skills necessary to work as aquaculture technicians in the aquaculture industry.
http://www.newsroom.gov.bc.ca/2012/06/aquaculture-training-means-jobs-for-the-island.html
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News of Interest
World needs more aquaculture
FishfarmingXpert, June 12, 2012
- I dont know much about aquaculture, but I know a whole lot about poverty and hunger.
Former General Secretary of UN, now peace negotiator, Kofi Annan, opened his speech to the AquaVision aduience in Stavanger, Norway, with an appeal to increase the aquaculture production.
http://www.fishfarmingxpert.com/index.php?page_id=76&article_id=95130
Aquaculture gains top level recognition as a contributor to future food production
Fish Update, June 12, 2012
Kofi Annan left a deep impression on world aquaculture leaders when spoke this morning, June 12 2012, on how aquaculture can contribute to feeding nine billion people by 2050.
http://www.fishupdate.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/17739
Salmon dialogue gains momentum
Fishnewseu, 14 June 2012
THE Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue handed over the global salmon standard for responsible farming to the Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) on June 13.
http://www.fishnewseu.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8396:salmon-dialogue-gains-momentum&catid=46:world&Itemid=56
Animal Health Act in limbo
Ben Ingram, Coast Reporter, June 15, 2012
Spokespeople from the salmon farming industry said media assertions of the proposed Animal Health Act’s potential impact on their industry “were manifestly not correct.”
http://www.coastreporter.net/article/20120615/SECHELT0101/306159975/-1/sechelt/animal-health-act-in-limbo
PAA Note: Includes quotes from Stewart Hawthorn (Grieg) and Colleen Dane (BCSFA)
Wild migrating salmon likely infected their farmed cousins in B.C., say experts
June 11, 2012 | Keven Drews, The Canadian Press
VANCOUVER - Observers of the decades-long argument over fish farming in B.C. can now add one more shade of grey to the debate.
Industry critics have long feared Atlantic salmon raised in open-net cages in the ocean can pass on diseases to wild salmon and as a result, jeopardize those wild stocks.
But an outbreak of infectious haematopoietic necrosis, known as IHN, on an Atlantic salmon farm off Vancouver Island's west coast in May appears to have been caused by passing wild stocks, a reversal of the traditional arguments against the industry.
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/wild-migrating-salmon-likely-infected-their-farmed-cousins-in-bc-say-experts-158406415.html
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Blogs of Interest
Hatchery fish are not wild
Protesting the Protesters, June 12, 12
This is part two in a three part series on Alaskan salmon ranching.
Salmon aquaculture in Alaska can be described multiple ways: salmon ranching, salmon enhancement and salmon hatcheries.
http://protestingtheprotesters.wordpress.com/2012/06/12/hatchery-fish-are-not-wild/
Jacob Koomen: Two-wheeling Cancer Fighter
BCSFA, Beyond Expectations, June 14, 2012
For Jacob Koomen Bike to Work Week is much more than a week’s challenge; it’s training for the hundreds of kilometres he will ride this year to raise money for cancer research.
“I love cycling,” says Koomen who works as maintenance manager at Marine Harvest Canada’s Sayward North hatchery, simply. He loves it so much that he’s happy to make the 70-km-each-way (2.5 hours a piece) commitment each year for Bike to Work Week
http://bcsfabeyondexpectations.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/jacob-koomen-two-wheeling-cancer-fighter/
