The wild salmon are under threat according to conservation groups

Wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest are under threat from disease and parasites from industrial fish-farming according to fishing native groups and conservation groups in Canada and the United States. The coalition of groups has this week filed a formal petition requesting an international investigation with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation an environmental side agreement to the North American Free Trade Agreement. The petition seeks enforcement of Canada’s Fisheries Act.

“The Canadian inquiry into the collapse of Fraser River sockeye, the largest salmon-producing river in the world, suggests the primarily Norwegian-owned British Columbia salmon-farming industry exerts trade pressures that exceed Canada’s political will to protect wild salmon,” said biologist Alexandra Morton with the Pacific Coast Wild Salmon Society. “Releasing viruses into native ecosystems is an irrevocable threat to biodiversity, yet Canada seems to have no mechanism to prevent salmon-farm diseases from afflicting wild salmon throughout the entire North Pacific.” Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers. To get your copy of 'PPLAPP' click here.