@ProtectOurShore

Our mission is to ensure that marine habitat ecosystems are preserved and restored for the benefit of native species.

 Puget Sound
Joined January 2012
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Wild Salmon Recovery in BC As the Sockeye and Pink salmon runs near their end with estimates of near 10 million Sockeye and 19 million Pink, eyes now turn to 2026, the dominant run of native Sockeye expected to be in the 10s of millions. #salmon #recovery #priorities @ubcoceans
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Salmon farming rebrands feed: Marketing goes into high gear in response to consumer backlash over chicken byproducts being fed to farmed salmon. Will rebranding it as "protein from chickens" work? channel4.com/news/debate-sho… #salmon #ChickenFromTheSea #bcpooi #bbcearth @CTV @CBC

Debate: Should poultry by-products be fed to salmon?

We discussed chicken-fed salmon with Leo Savry, operations director of the Leo group, which supplies chicken-derived feed to fish farms in Norway, Latin America, Asia and Africa, and Patrick Holden,...

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Salmon farming: Feed them whatever improves profits. The public won't care. "Salmon are carnivores and eat other fish in the wild, so feeding them chicken is entirely natural" ft.com/content/8f1e2cc9-4e2a… #salmon #ProfitRisk #bcpoli #Cousteau @cbc @ctv @UBCoceans @UBCIC @BBCEarth

Salmon producers start feeding chicken to fish

Fears of consumer backlash pushed aside as producers respond to surge in fishmeal prices

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Salmon farm mortalities: The slow drip of reporting how many tons of salmon in Chile have died from algae blooms which some believe is enhanced from the untreated waste being discharged begins intrafish.com/salmon/algal-b… #salmon #PointSource #bcpoli @CTV @CBC @UBCoceans @ubcic

Algal bloom mortalities approach 1,000 tons at Multi X salmon farms

Nearly 960 tons of fish have died at two farms in the Magallanes region, with almost half removed and sent for processing.

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Salmon farm mortalities: The slow drip begins on reporting how many tons of salmon in Chile have died from algae blooms which some believe untreated waste from open net pens enhances. intrafish.com/salmon/algal-b… #salmon #PointSource #bcpoli @BBCEarth @UBCoceans @CTV @CBC @ubci

Algal bloom mortalities approach 1,000 tons at Multi X salmon farms

Nearly 960 tons of fish have died at two farms in the Magallanes region, with almost half removed and sent for processing.

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Farmed salmon in BC: CBC on an industry helping to deplete forage fish and krill worldwide in order to feed artificially colored nonnative Atlantic salmon a minority in the world can afford to buy. cbc.ca/news/world/outlaw-oce… #salmon #bcpoli #krill @bbcearth @cbc @APTNNews @UBCoceans

What is your seafood eating? Problems in global feed supply traced to Canadian store shelves | CBC...

Much of the fish meal and fish oil that support farmed salmon and imported seafood consumed in Canada come from global supply chains linked to pollution, labour abuses, overfishing, and food insecu...

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Farmed salmon has ruptured marine ecosystems worldwide: Krill from Antarctica; Anchovy from Peru; Capelin in the Barents Sea; Menhaden from Chesapeake Bay. To feed artificially colored fish. insideclimatenews.org/news/0… #salmon #bcpoli #krill #ProfitRisk @BBCEarth @CBC @CTV @UBCoceans

Scientists Urge Consumers to Stop Buying Products Made From Antarctic Krill - Inside Climate News

A new global boycott comes as major retailers withdraw krill products from their shelves to protect whales and other marine life.

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Farmed salmon: Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. Lawsuit on open net pen impacts to marine ecosystems is allowed to move forward. Tides carry untreated discharge. clf.org/newsroom/court-rules… #salmon #bcpoil #PointSource @CBC @CTV @BBCEarth @UBCoceans @ubcic

Court Rules CLF’s Case Against Cooke Aquaculture Can Move Forward

This ruling brings us one step closer to protecting the health of Maine’s waters and the ecosystems, industries, and communities that rely on them.

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Farmed salmon: Its moment has passed. Overfishing of forage fish with the cost of transporting krill from Antarctica and soy from Brazil push profits down with no end in sight. intrafish.com/salmon/cermaq-… #salmon #bcpoli #ProfitRisk @UBCoceans @CBC @CTV @BBCEarth @ATPNEWSTV

Cermaq CEO warns salmon farming profits could plunge in 2027

Feed costs could rise by twice what listed farmers are forecasting, says Steven Rafferty.

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Farmed salmon and El Nino: Planning ahead-"sanitary trenches". Article on how the farmed salmon industry plans to dispose of mass mortalities caused by the changing environment. fishfarmingexpert.com/chile-… #salmon #ElNiño #aquaculture #bcpoli @BBCEarth @UBCoceans @CTV @CBC @UBCIC

Trenches are Chile's last-ditch option if El Niño causes salmon catastrophy

The world's second-largest salmon producing nation is better prepared for challenges brought by the climate event than it was in 2016, and that includes disposal of morts

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Salmon farming in BC: CA First Nation tells Norwegian based Cermaq to remove a hatchery raising nonnative Atlantic salmon. No permission and impacts on native salmon are cited as reasons. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09/24/H… #salmon #bcpoli #aquaculture #neoColonialism @VancouverSun @CTV @CBC

Hupačasath Nation Boots Salmon Farm Hatchery off Its Territory | The Tyee

Citing wild fish health concerns, Hereditary Chief Alton Watts wants industry giant Cermaq to ‘vacate the area.’

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Farmed salmon: Chefs worldwide call for farmed Atlantic salmon to be removed from the menu noting conditions within the cage; tides spreading impacts; synthetic additive for color; and impacts on worldwide wild forage fish. #salmon #OffTheTable #bcpoli @VancouverSun @UBCoceans
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Farmed salmon: Univ of BC scientists highlight that almost half of all wild fish captured will be required to grow a carnivorous species which is nonnative to BC waters. news.mongabay.com/2026/09/45… #salmon #bcpoli #aquaculture @UBCoceans @CBC @VancouverSun @CTV @guardian @UBCIC

46% of wild-caught fish could be fed to farmed fish and shrimp by 2040, says report

ROME — Nearly half of the wild-caught fish harvested globally could be used to produce feed for farmed aquaculture products by 2040 if the industry were to grow exponentially in line with a roadmap...

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Salmon farming: Lobbyists for foreign based corporations trying to support a broken model on North America's West Coast claim profit uncertainty prevents investments on the East Coast. As it should. seawestnews.com/inside-the-p… #salmon #ProfitUncertainty #bcpoli #lobbyists @CBC @ctv
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Salmon farming: A broken model. The Guardian exposes the realities behind the curtain lobbyists and industry has woven. Peru's closure of anchovy harvesting is only part of the problem. theguardian.com/environment/… #salmon #bcpoli @BBCEarth @UBCoceans @cbc @CTVNews @APTNNews @ubcic

Grinding up fish to feed to fish is ‘absurd’: fears over UN aquaculture plan

Huge rollout of fish farms could harm ecosystems and threaten vulnerable communities’ food sources, say experts

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Farmed salmon in BC: Article discusses the discovery of disease common in nonnative Atlantic salmon grown in open net pens being found in native Chinook salmon. See here: bcoutdoorsmagazine.com/bacte… #salmon #bcpoli #PointSource @CBC @CTVNews @APTNNews @BBCEarth @UBCoceans @UBCoceans
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Farmed salmon in BC: "public policy must recognize values beyond price" Should the price of nonnative Atlantic salmon drive policy decisions? An opinion piece argues there is more to consider. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/… #salmon #prioities #bcpoli @bbcerarth @cbc @CTV @UBCoceans

Opinion: Canada must move to better protect wild salmon populations

The end of open-net pens must lead to a safer ecosystem

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Salmon farming in BC: The Vancouver Sun publishes an opinion piece on the need for CA to follow through with its commitment to end nonnative Atlantic salmon farming in open net pens vancouversun.com/opinion/col… #salmon #prioities #bcpoli #waleg @cbc @ctv @APTNNews @UBCoceans @BBCEarth

Opinion: Premier Eby needs to pressure Ottawa to keep salmon farming commitment

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Farmed salmon and possible interactions with native salmon, the result of high density populations of nonnative Atlantic salmon held in open net pens. Industry supported biologists disagree on impacts from untreated waste discharged. #salmon #pointsource @cbc @ctv @UBCoceans
Wild First
@wildfirstcanadaAug 2
👉 Each salmon farm produces the equivalent salmon sewage of a city of 150,000 people. 👉 One to three lice can kill a juvenile wild salmon. 👉 Up to 23 lice have been counted on single wild salmon fry in Clayoquot Sound. Canada made a clear commitment to ban open net pen fish farms by 2029. Now, they must follow through. Learn more from Clayoquot Action: clayoquotaction.org/clayoquo…
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Farmed salmon in BC: APTN interviews First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance spokesperson Bob Chamberlain on the importance of protecting and restoring native species of salmon from all threats. See: share.google/aTcIamg1czCklmf… #salmon #bcpoli #priorities @UBCoceans @cbc @CTV @bbearth

Wild salmon advocate urges government for complete open-net salmon...

APTN’s Tina House speaks with a wild salmon advocate in British Col...

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Salmon farming: Farming with benefits. "It's like a livestock building put into the sea without walls, without a floor, without a roof." Controlling discharge costs "... at least 10 times..." more than not. abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/h… #salmon #bcpoli @BBCEarth @CTV @CBC @UBCoceans

Salmon farming transformed Norway. Now it's facing the consequences

Norway's salmon industry is a global behemoth 18 times the size of Tasmania's. But the country's success holds a warning for Australia. 

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