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Salmon Farming Campaign
Salmon Farming Impacts
Open net-cage salmon farming is causing a host of problems for wild salmon and the ocean ecosystem. Sea lice from farms are infesting wild juvenile salmon, chemical sea lice treatments are harming prawn stocks around farms, salmon farm diseases are likely spreading to wild fish, seals and sea lions are routinely shot, farmed fish continue to escape and wild fish off South America are harvested in large numbers to make salmon farm feed.
Solutions
Closed containment systems involve a barrier between wild and farmed salmon, thereby eliminating some of the most negative impacts of open-net cage salmon farming and significantly reducing others. Closed systems would be a solution that allows for a commercial scale salmon farming industry without jeopardizing wild Pacific salmon or BC’s marine ecosystem. In the meantime, we need government to legislate interim measures to protect wild salmon including coordinated fallowing and shutting down farms on key wild salmon migration routes.You can be part of the solution!
What You Can Do
You have the power to make environmentally harmful industries like open net salmon farming change for the better. Your participation can make a difference! Here are some things you can do.
Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform
Groups working to promote safe farming, including the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, joined together to create the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) in 2001. Working in partnership we believe we can contribute to a healthy and sustainable coast.
Salmon Farming Impacts
Open net-cage salmon farming is causing a host of problems for wild salmon and the ocean ecosystem. Sea lice from farms are infesting wild juvenile salmon, chemical sea lice treatments are harming prawn stocks around farms, salmon farm diseases are likely spreading to wild fish, seals and sea lions are routinely shot, farmed fish continue to escape and wild fish off South America are harvested in large numbers to make salmon farm feed.
Solutions
Closed containment systems involve a barrier between wild and farmed salmon, thereby eliminating some of the most negative impacts of open-net cage salmon farming and significantly reducing others. Closed systems would be a solution that allows for a commercial scale salmon farming industry without jeopardizing wild Pacific salmon or BC’s marine ecosystem. In the meantime, we need government to legislate interim measures to protect wild salmon including coordinated fallowing and shutting down farms on key wild salmon migration routes.You can be part of the solution!
What You Can Do
You have the power to make environmentally harmful industries like open net salmon farming change for the better. Your participation can make a difference! Here are some things you can do.
Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform
Groups working to promote safe farming, including the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, joined together to create the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform (CAAR) in 2001. Working in partnership we believe we can contribute to a healthy and sustainable coast.