Posts tagged ‘Aquaculture’

Aquaculture production: fish not foul

Fish not foul

Patrick Moore, National Post • Mar. 29, 2011 |

The farming of fish goes back at least 3,000 years in China, where carp and other freshwater fish are still the main contributor to worldwide aquaculture production. Trout have been farmed for more than a hundred years around the world, and catfish have been successfully domesticated in the U.S. south. Marine shellfish, such as oysters and mussels, also have been farmed for centuries.  Read more

Treating wild and farmed salmon equally

Treating wild and farmed salmon equally

Patrick Moore
The Province
Monday, March 09, 2009

The recent decision by the B.C. Supreme Court to grant authority over salmon farming to the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans was hailed as a “major victory” by anti-salmon farm activists.
They were gleeful over the court’s finding that the province of British Columbia did not have jurisdiction because salmon farming is a “fishery” and not “farming.” Read more

Aquaculture Committee

Submission From:

Dr. Patrick Moore, Chairman & Chief Scientist
Greenspirit Strategies Ltd.

To:

The Special Committee on Sustainable Aquaculture

Saturna Island Room, Fairmont Hotel Vancouver,
900 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Introduction

Since its beginnings in the 1980s, salmon farming has been under a relentless attack in British Columbia, and to a lesser extent in other parts of the world. The opposition comes from a coalition of commercial wild salmon interests, environmental groups, the political left, boaters, and tourism operators. Let’s look at the laundry list of claims activists are making daily against what I believe is one of the cleanest industries on the planet, producing the healthiest food in the world. Read more

Alexandra Morton

Patrick Moore, Financial Post

Anti-aquaculture activist Alexandra Morton is well known for her claims that salmon farms are infecting wild salmon with sea lice. Read more

Salmon and sea lice

Salmon and sea lice

The Globe and Mail, Letter to the Editor
April 7, 2005

Vancouver – With a recent study published by the Royal Society of London, the well-oiled anti-aquaculture machine has bamboozled Canadian and international media into believing sea lice from salmon farms are killing British Columbia’s wild salmon. Read more

Salmon Safe from Lice

BC Salmon Safe from Science Scare

April 5, 2005
By Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD

The David Suzuki Foundation and its anti-aquaculture allies are bamboozling global media into believing sea lice from salmon farms are killing B.C.’s wild salmon stocks.

In a report published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, David Suzuki Foundation-funded scientists claim they have “proof” the farms cause massive sea lice infestations and salmon declines. Well, at least that’s what the authors have stated during media briefings. Read more

Sustainable aquaculture – The science Is On Our Side