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Foreign Industry Groups Are Pushing to Kill BC Salmon Farm Ban
“Executives from salmon farming industry groups in seven countries wrote to Carney in April 2025, one month after he took office, according to B.C. freedom of information documents obtained by Watershed Watch Salmon Society and shared with The Tyee.” Read the full...
Ottawa’s renewed salmon funding spawns both hope and skepticism
New funding can’t act as a “band-aid” to patch over weak regulations, especially with changes to laws like the federal Impact Assessment Act that speed up approvals and reduce environmental reviews, said Jonathan Moore, an SFU professor who studies salmon. “The real...
Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’
“Norway is a small country of just 5.5 million people, and the output of aquaculture pollution in terms of these three nutrients is three to five times larger than the population,” said Alexandra Pires Duro, a data scientist at Sunstone and author of the report. “The...
The Salmon Farmers Are at It Again
More than two decades ago, the salmon farming industry launched a global campaign to try to discredit a groundbreaking, peer-reviewed scientific study that found farmed salmon contained higher levels of PCBs, a suspected carcinogen, and other contaminants than their...
Antibiotic traces from salmon farms found in Australian marine species
“University of Queensland's antibiotic resistance expert Mark Blaskovich said the levels were "ideal for generating resistance," which could have wider implications for aquatic and human health.” Read the full article.
Tribunal approves salmon farm expansion despite community opposition
“This decision ignores the clear warnings from communities, scientists, and Indigenous nations,” said Ecojustice lawyer, James Gunvaldsen Klaassen. Read the full news release.
The Myth of “Sustainable” Aquaculture
This report examines what that story leaves out: that, through greenwashing, aquaculture has brought factory farming from land to sea. Across five central claims that anchor “sustainable seafood” messaging, it shows how industrial fish farming has expanded at a scale...
Sustainable aquaculture in Canada: Lost in translation
"Canada is a signatory to United Nations conventions on sustainable development and has entrenched sustainability goals in legislation and policies relating to natural resource sectors including aquaculture. Monitoring and measuring progress towards sustainable...
New Checklist for Science Studies
New research on the risks and benefits of farmed Atlantic salmon seem to be published every day. Competing claims can be confusing, particularly when one side (aquaculture) spends millions of dollars financing research and public relations campaigns. To help you...
It is not just the fish you chose to eat that matters, but what that fish eats, too: Pressure increases on the aquaculture industry
If you need another reason to stop eating farmed Atlantic salmon, a new study warns that the aquaculture industry faces constraints because its demands have reduced global stocks of forage fish required for the fishmeal and oil essential to aquaculture feed. Combined...
“Eating Atlantic salmon from open net salmon farms is the wrong choice for our health and the health of our environment. Responsible consumers should avoid these inhumanely, unsustainably raised fish.”
Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins