The number of farms in BC based on salmonfarmers pdf file , if you care to read it, is from my count = 98 .
The link is there and it's not 30 pages long ,its on the first page and the info is from 2014.
The fact that Puget sound has only 8 ,conversely you would think they would have less problems based on scale ,8 vs 98.
Agree that 'thank god' we have a stricter regulatory environment here rather than Chile or Norway .
Not sure that we see all the issues,Sea lice,disease outbreak,etc that come out , this was another argument about govt scientists being muzzled .
Hoping the new govt can be more transparent about this .
As for problems down south, they did have an outbreak in 2012, reported facts in the newspaper article .
Maybe we had an outbreak and it was never reported?swept under the proverbial pen ,(sorry my favourite joke)
Sorry not gonna quote Cohen report or some facebook page ,don't think it has information that it conclusive, you keep quoting these, likely exactly for this reason.
Like the creative salmon model and kuterra, however I do understand it's probably more expensive.But we are talking about our precious environment that once gone is gone !It wont be suitable for farming either if its too polluted.
The Alaska salmon ranching is similar to the hatchery system in BC .The fact also that it puts the fish back in the hands of the fisherman, not a large multinational .
"Can you show me some scientific documentation where these “high” densities in net pens artificially elevate the IHN outbreak?"
Don't have the scientific study in hand I will rely on you to point these out,you can google them .Its pretty clear that this concentration elevates the risk of disease transmission .
Heres one
http://www.thefishsite.com/diseaseinfo/4/infectious-haematopoietic-necrosis-ihn/Some good info actually stating that these diseases are hardest on fry,including the wild fish migrating through these affected areas at the time of an outbreak.