Shutting Down Salmon Farms in BC Begins in 2022
The beginning of end of the salmon farming industry in B.C. as we know it will start in earnest in 2022 in the Discovery Islands. …
Salmon Farming
Aquaculture Company Pilots New Salmon Farm Containment System On West Coast
An international aquaculture company has launched a trial of a new salmon farm containment system expected to drastically reduce the exchange of sea lice between wild and farmed fish. …
Factory-Farmed Salmon: Does it Make Sense to Grow Fish in Indoor Tanks?
One of these land-based salmon farms is planned for Bucksport, a down-on-its-luck industrial town of 5,000 people on the estuary of the Penobscot, a struggling wild salmon river. …
Atlantic Salmon Farmer, Hiddenfjord, Becomes the Industry’s First to Stop Using Air Freight
Atlantic Salmon farmer, Hiddenfjord has announced the suspension of all air freight as of 10-10-2020. This change has reduced Hiddenfjord’s overseas transportation CO2 emissions by 94% — as reported by the independent Norwegian research organization, SINTEF. Air freight is a major contributor to global CO2 emissions and emits around 50 times as much CO2 as sea freight. …
Salmon farm planned for Maine Fair Trade Lobster site in Gouldsboro
An aquaculture startup backed by a Norwegian investor is buying a Gouldsboro lobster processing facility and hopes to develop a salmon-farming operation there. …