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Author Topic: Salmon Farming: Annotated List of Independent studies on Open Net farming in B.C  (Read 40109 times)

RalphH

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Re: Salmon Farming: Annotated List of Independent studies on Open Net farming in B.C
« Reply #15 on: July 28, 2026, 09:33:13 AM »
Norway became a global salmon behemoth. Now it's facing the consequences:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/how-norway-s-salmon-industry-became-a-global-behemoth/106949872

Norway which created the international salmon farming industry and has regarded it as the 'new oil', is now facing intense debate as to how far the industry can grow. The negative effects sounds not surprising like the debates in BC. The big question is how many net operations can be put in one fiord without
destroying it's ecology. Many fear a breaking point is now approaching.
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Re: Salmon Farming: Annotated List of Independent studies on Open Net farming in B.C
« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2026, 12:19:31 PM »
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Re: Salmon Farming: Annotated List of Independent studies on Open Net farming in B.C
« Reply #17 on: July 30, 2026, 07:59:06 AM »
So what? While the empirical data for direct  disease transmission has been less than convincing it has proven meaningless to policy decisions to restrict or eliminate open net farming. Just the risk of it alone has been enough curtail or even remove them. It's something neither you or the industry as a whole has been able to grasp.
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Re: Salmon Farming: Annotated List of Independent studies on Open Net farming in B.C
« Reply #18 on: August 05, 2026, 06:47:14 PM »
Scientists studying Chinook salmon caught in the wild to evaluation sport angling impacts found 16% of the 99 fish sampled had tenacibaculosis — a bacterial disease that causes lesions and death in fish. Previously this disease was mostly known as common among farmed Atlantic salmon where it can be fatal within days once symptoms become apparent. This is the first instance of this disease found in wild Pacific Salmon. According to Dr Emiliano Di Cicco, a fish health researcher with the Pacific Salmon Foundation and lead author of the study, the findings provide new evidence that is not accounted for in DFO’s existing disease risk assessment.

source: https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/bc-researchers-discover-deadly-bacterial-disease-in-wild-chinook-12592892

Dr Di Cicco: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emiliano-Di-Cicco
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