New salmon farm proposals for B.C. coast raise questions about Ottawa’s promised 2025 phase-out
Twelve proposals to expand or create new open-net pen operations — many pitched in partnership...
Norwegian company plans large new salmon farm for B.C.’s coast as others phased out
First Nations who successfully fought to remove open net pen salmon farms are speaking out...
‘We need that plan’: 109 B.C. fish farm licences soon set to expire, but federal transition strategy missing
On the heels of a new stakeholder engagement report from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, scientists...
Canada’s sweeping closures of Pacific coast salmon fisheries leave workers reeling
Commercial fishers are paying the price for a 'collective failure' to minimize impacts to wild...
B.C. fish farms transmit virus to endangered wild Pacific salmon, new study confirms
Fresh research shows piscine orthoreovirus was introduced to southern B.C. from Atlantic salmon eggs roughly...
‘They never said a word’: DFO told B.C. salmon farmers, but not First Nations, about mouth rot infestation
Documents released under access to information legislation show federal scientists raised the alarm about a...
Salmon farm reapplies for three-year permit to dump sea lice pesticide in B.C. coastal waters
Cermaq has applied for a new permit to dump almost 3,000 bathtubs of a sea...
Fish out of water: How B.C.’s salmon farmers fell behind the curve of sustainable, land-based aquaculture
Public and political pressure to remove open net pens from the province’s coastal waters has...
Frankenfish or food of the future? The risks and rewards of Canada’s genetically engineered salmon
Some Canadians with an appetite for salmon may have already consumed the world’s first genetically...
