Please find enclosed a press update (in full online here) including:
“Q3 Presentation: web-cast live from Norway” (Marine Harvest, 26 October)
“All Ireland's 166 TD's Contacted by Campaigners” (The Fish Site, 23 October)
“How Fly Farming May Help More Fish Stay in the Sea” (NPR, 23 October)
“Lessons learned/Beware of Facebook science” (The Chronicle Herald, 23 October)
“Disease hits Cermaq’s Q3 profits” (Intrafish, 23 October)
“Disease Crisis Cripples Cermaq” (Green Around the Gills, 23 October)
“Cermaq suffering from impacts of disease” (Fish News EU, 23 October)
“Shoppers are getting shortchanged when buying salmon” (FIS, 23 October)
“Sobeys reviews salmon handling due to sea lice” (The Chronicle Herald, 22 October)
“Sobeys confirms some recalled salmon had sea lice”/”Salmon with sea lice pulled from stores” (CBC News/UPI, 22 October)
“Is Truth a Tactic?” (Alexandra Morton/Dissident Voice, 22 October)
“Salmon recall fires up fish farming debate” (CBC News, 22 October)
““Organic” Label on Fish Doesn’t Mean it’s Wild” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 22 October)
“Grieg's speciality salmon expands again: Skuna Bay works its way down the US West Coast” (Intrafish, 22 October)
“Murky waters: Bad practices in fish farms cause major health concerns” (Egypt Independent, 22 October)
“Cermaq Like a Cancer Grows: The Sound of Cermaq’s SLAPP” (Green Around the Gills, 22 October)
“Norway's Aqua Genome Project to Sequence Salmon, Cod” (Genome Web, 22 October)
“Costs zoom for salmon farm bid” (Marlborough Express, 22 October)
“Willis Hires Fish Farm Underwriting Expert to Lead Expanding Aquaculture Practice” Marketwatch, 22 October)
“BC Salmon Farmers Receive Federal Grant” (HQ Comox Valley, 22 October)
“Is it time to stop open pen fish farming in the Maritimes?” (CBC News, 21 October)
“Diseases Cost Cermaq Millions” (Green Around the Gills, 20 October)
“Halt fish-farm growth until more studies are in: Latest approval aids firm behind two massive salmon culls this year” (The Times Colonist, 20 October)
“Whole salmon to stay off Sobeys shelves for the weekend: grocery chain is continuing with their own investigation” (CBC News, 19 October)
“Fact file: What are sea lice and should I be concerned?” (Global News, 19 October)
“Sobeys pulls salmon from Atlantic Canada stores after sea lice concerns” (Global News/The Canadian Press, 19 October)
“Salmon sea lice report rare and unusual, says UPEI vet” (South Coast Today, 19 October)
“Fish Farmers defend Atlantic salmon after recall” (CBC News, 19 October)
“Salmonella victims file for damages” (Dutch News, 19 October)
“First new salmon farm approved under DFO” (Friends of Clayoquot Sound, 19 October)
“Dr. Alexandra Morton’s tour” (Association for the Preservation of the Eastern Shore, 19 October)
“Cermaq quarter results affected by disease outbreaks – IHN outbreak in the farming centre of Millar affected 1 million farmed fish of Mainstream Canada” (FIS, 8 October)
Including from Global News (19 October):
“It has to be said it’s largely because of her activism B.C. now has a monitoring program for sea lice and that’s good,” said Vivian Krause
“And now I’m fighting for my home,” said Alexandra Morton. “All we want is for the government to say is, yes, we see it as a problem and here’s what we’re going to do about it”
Read it on Global News: Global News | Anti-fish farming activist Alexandra Morton
From The Chronicle Herald (22 October):
“Sobeys found sea lice on about a dozen whole Atlantic salmon removed from store shelves last week and is reviewing quality control with the supplier, a grocery chain spokeswoman said Monday. Whole Atlantic salmon have not yet been returned to the shelves. “We pulled whole Atlantic salmon from Maritime store shelves after having the issue brought to our attention through social media,” Cynthia Thompson, with Sobeys Inc. in Stellarton, said in an interview.”
From South Coast Today (19 October):
“When contacted by SCT about the reports that 30 to 90 adult sea lice had been found in and around the gills of whole Atlantic farmed salmon sold at supermarkets in Atlantic Canada, University of PEI professor of aquatic epidemiology Larry Hammel told SCT “I’ve never seen this many lice in the gills of fish,” Hammel told SCT. “It is very unusual and perplexing as adult lice do not live on gills.”
Watch CBC News (19 October) on the ‘Sobeys salmon controversy’:
“B.C. activist and biologist Alexandra Morton says 10 of 17 whole salmon she purchased at different grocery chains and markets in the Maritimes contained sea lice. "We are finding lice on the majority of farmed salmon," said Morton. "We don't know where the fish is from."
From Alexandra Morton commenting on The Guardian (19 October) article on sea lice:
“Dear Dr. Hammell, Your statements above must be a misquote. I have never stated sea lice are a human health issue. The drugs used to kill the sea lice, however, are a concern to the communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Both sea lice and lobster are crustaceans. It is not surprising, therefore, that lobster appear impacted by the drugs used to kill sea lice. Lobster fishermen feel strongly that drug treatments in salmon farms sited on their lobster grounds are killing lobster. And that, in turn, has impact on many communities. I hope to hear from you directly so that we can clear this up. All the best Alexandra Morton.”
From CBC News (22 October):
“Yesterday on CBC Radio's Maritime Connection, Karen Crocker urged Sobey's to keep the fish out of its stores. She said fish farming is polluting the coastal waters of Nova Scotia. "Whether that be the feces, whether that be the excess feed, whether that be the pesticide use for sea lice, it all goes unchecked into the environment."
Listen to Karen Crocker, Alexandra Morton, Vivian Krause and Susanna Fuller on CBC News (21 October) online here
Watch Karen Crocker firing up the crowd at a protest in June 2012 online here
From Bill Williams in The Chronicle Herald (23 October):
“Whole salmon were purchased in Maritime stores and samples were taken to test for diseases in the fish. The majority of fish purchased had sea lice attached to them; in some cases, they were in very large numbers (up to 97 lice). A sea louse was also found attached to a salmon portion fillet. Who would have ever imagined sea lice selling for $8.99 per pound?”
“Beware of Facebook science,” writes Jon Grant. “As a scientist, I would not pretend that results reported on Facebook concerning fish quality were scientifically valid. There is so much that has not been reported, including source of fish, randomness of the store and fish selection, and numbers of fish and stores sampled.”
From Torrence Coste of the Wilderness Committee writing in The Times Colonist (20 October) on the new salmon farm for Cermaq in Clayoquot Sound:
“Many groups, including the Wilderness Committee, feel it is incredibly irresponsible for provincial and federal agencies to issue permits for new open-net salmon farms before the results of the Cohen Commission are out, and until the impacts of this industry can be studied more extensively…..This decision places a huge amount of risk on coastal B.C. and rewards a massive foreign company with a record of disease outbreaks.”
From Green Around the Gills (23 October):
“Cermaq's CEO Jon Hindar was left red-faced again today as the financial consequences of poor disease management in both Norway and Canada returned to haunt the world's second largest salmon farming company. “Q3 2012 was very challenging” said Cermaq’s CEO Jon Hindar in a live web-cast this morning from Oslo, Norway. Cermaq's Q3 2012 financial results detailed disease losses of NOK 52 million – including NOK 33 million due to the spread of Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis (IHN) in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Canada and NOK 19 million in Norway due to Pancreas Disease (PD).”
From the Marlborough Express (22 October) in New Zealand where the salmon farming inquiry has concluded:
“Opposition group Sustain Our Sounds chairman Danny Boulton said the large volume of reading material and lengthy hearing meant the decision-making process was stacked against the public. Even the board of inquiry had found this difficult and had applied for an extension for writing their final decision, he said. Sustain Our Sounds was fortunate to muster a competent team and the finance to fight an application of this scale. "In our view, from the evidence there is only one decision to be reached," Mr Boulton said. "That is a no to the plan change and full application."
Watch New Zealand TV on protests against salmon farming expansion – online here
From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (22 October):
“Farmed fish have significantly higher levels of pollutants, including dioxins and PCB’s, which can cause reproductive failure, hormone imbalances and cancer in humans. Farm-raised fish might be cheaper at the register but at what cost to the environment, all sea life and human health? We are at the end of this food chain, therefore the old adage “You are what you eat,” comes to mind.”
From Alexandra Morton writing in her blog “Is Truth a Tactic?” (22 October):
“As for the anonymous person, hiding behind a pseudonym posting that I should be sued for a million dollars….Bring it on! Let's take this into the courts. This is about much more than a dirty little sunset industry, this is about the future of our planet.”
Support Alexandra Morton’s testing for salmon diseases – please donate online here now!
Sign a petition calling on supermarkets to stop selling disease-ridden farmed salmon – sign online here!
Best fishes,
Don
Read previous Global News Updates online here
Global News Archive:
Global News Updates include the 'Salmon Wars' raging against filthy feedlots in Canada, Chile, Norway, Scotland, Ireland, New Zealand, United States and Australia:
23 October – “Halt Fish Farm Growth”/“Disease Hits Cermaq”/“Like Cancer”/“Is Truth a Tactic?”- online here
19 October – “Sobeys Yanks Salmon”/”Sea Lice Scare!”/“Death Toll Rises”/“Direct Action Vs. New Fish Farm” – online here
18 October – “Teen Fights Salmon Farms”/“Lawsuit Threat”/“Cermaq Appeal”/”Health Indicators Worsen” – online here
15 October – “Sicko Salmon”/“Farms & Disease”/“PR Disaster”/“Passionate Pleas” – online here
3 October – “Salmonella Outbreak”/Activist Wins”/“Boaties Protest”/“Lynch Mob” - online here
28 September – “Judgment Day”/“Salmon Sludge Fouls Hearing”/“Students Oppose Farms” - online here
24 September – “Flotilla Protest”/“Shooting Seals Row”/“Farm Not Welcome” – online here
11 September – “Dirty Secrets”/“FishyLeaks: Toxic Toilets”/“Disease Risk” - online here
29 August – “Virus Trackers”/“Compensation Culture”/“Say No to 9 New Salmon Farms” - online here
8 August – “Legal Strategy”/“Wave of Controversy”/“IHN Virus” – online here
3 August – “Fatal Virus Detected in BC”/“Fish Farm Quarantined” – online here
31 July – “IHN Virus Spreads”/“Norway’s Olympic Mascot”/”Playing With Fire” – online here
20 July – “Norwegian Fish Farm Virus Found in BC”/”ISA Confirmed”/“A Fishy Tale” – online here
17 July – “FishyLeaks”/“ISA in BC”/“Scotland’s Secrets” – online here
13 July – “Aquaculture PR Wars”/“Beware Mother Nature”/“Trouble Brewing” – online here
11 July – "Salmon Wars Are Here"/"Smoking Gun"/"Canada disease cleanup" – online here
9 July – "Killer Panda"/"Quarantined Salmon to be Destroyed"/"PR War Waged" – online here!
6 July – "CFIA quarantines fish farm"/"Parasite found in Norwegian-owned salmon" – online here!
4 July – "Parasite-ridden salmon sold in BC stores"/"95% of BC salmon is BAP certified" – online here!
Download FOI document from the Scottish Government online here