A new Pacific Salmon Foundation study shows how disputed findings can be turned into alarming headlines, fuelling the “scientific uncertainty” activists need to kill BC's ocean salmon farming sector. #SalmonFarming #Aquaculture seawestnews.com/pacific-salm…

"Toxic fish factories." That's how Green Party leader Elizabeth May describes salmon farms operating in partnership with coastal BC First Nations. Divisive language from the leader of a party that claims to champion Indigenous rights and self-determination. 🧵

@BBCRadioScot visited #Shetland as it covered on a campaign against farm-raised salmon. The report gave the sector and the supermarket, M&S, the opportunity to respond directly to the claims being made about our sector. @scotseafarms | @marksandspencer #ScottishSalmon | #Aquaculture | #FishFarming | #MadeinScotland

Another year has passed, marking ten years of sea lice monitoring in the Broughton Archipelago and nine years in the Discovery Islands, and the data continue to confirm that BC salmon farms are not driving sea lice levels in wild Pacific Salmon. Since the farms were removed, sea lice on wild juvenile pink and chum salmon have not decreased or disappeared, either in the percentage of fish infected or in the average number of lice on infected fish. Instead, the data show natural year-to-year variability. These closures caused significant economic impacts, including 1,500 fewer jobs, $640 million in lost economic activity, the cancellation of more than $1 billion in investment, and 35,000 tonnes of farmed salmon removed from production. “BC Salmon Farmers are committed to ensuring that salmon farms coexist with wild salmon in coastal British Columbia. Sea lice monitoring and innovation to ensure that sea lice levels on farmed salmon cannot spread to wild salmon are a critical part of operations,” said Brian Kingzett. Read More: bcsalmonfarmers.ca/news/no-s…