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Disease from salmon farms has never been implicated to have impacted wild salmon in British Columbia.
Other than findings of certain anti-fish farm activists, whose scientific procedure has been shown at times to not have scientific integrity, there is no evidence of harm to wild salmon from farmed.
In one of the recent letters the letter writer raises concern about salmon farms and “their pollution” and then lists these pollutants. These statements reveal a complete ignorance of the practice of salmon aquaculture. While antibiotic use in past decades was an issue, with the development of effective vaccines, the amount of antibiotics used in salmon aquaculture is almost nonexistent. Certainly, use of antibiotics in salmon aquaculture in British Columbia is orders of measure less that what are used in the production of other proteins such as chicken.
Sea lice and their treatment is likewise closely monitored, highly regulated and controlled. The farmed fish themselves require a pristine environment and fish farmers are the most dedicated people I know in protecting that environment. Their livelihoods depend on it.
These letter writers echo the call that the fish farms must be moved on land. My wife and I happen to be the owners of one of the very few land-based grow out salmon farms in the world, one of three in British Columbia. While there is a common perception that the technology currently exists to take the salmon farms out of the ocean and move them on land it simply is not so. Atlantic salmon, which is the most cultured salmon, has simply not been successfully raised at commercial scale on land at a profit anywhere, other than at hatchery stage. Land-based salmon farming does have a future in B.C., and our farm is showing that. But, I see land-based salmon farming as a complement to ocean farming, not a replacement.
Salmon aquaculture is now a very important industry to B.C. The economic impact has now eclipsed $1.5 billion dollars. That is jobs and tax revenue for B.C. and Canada. Farmed salmon is a necessary protein to feed the world and it is produced, in B.C., in a responsible manner.
Steve Atkinson, president, Taste of B.C. Aquafarms
Source: https://www.nanaimobulletin.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-fish-farming-done-responsibly/
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I ma interested to know what precautions are taken to prevent escaped Atlantic salmon from getting established of hybridizing with the species native to the Pacific coast.
Hello Willie, we are looking for information to publish something that certainly answers your question. It is not easy because there is much rubbish on this subject, but as soon as we have something scientifically based, we will publish it. Thanks for stopping by here.
Pacific Salmon and Atlantic salmon are completely different species of fish and are incapable of cross breeding or hybridizing. Atlantic Salmon are from the family Salmo which identifies mainly trouts. The Pacific Salmon all are from the family onchyryncus. They are no more able to crossbreed or hybridize than are a cat and a dog!
Pacific Salmon and Atlantic salmon are completely different species of fish and are incapable of cross breeding or hybridizing. Atlantic Salmon are from the family Salmo which identifies mainly trouts. The Pacific Salmon all are from the family onchyryncus. They are no more able to crossbreed or hybridize than are a cat and a dog!
Thank u for giving such a good information
Where can I get tanks as in this article?
I retired sometime in July 2020 and into small scale Fish farming. Please send me relevant information.
I would like to know if salmon can be produced inland ( far from the sea)with fresh water in tunnel environment?