Farming Fish on the Prairies

Canada.com, 16 February 2011

Mark McNaughton shakes a handful of pellets across the dark water and watches it start to roil. The placid surface hiding hundreds of sleek tilapia explodes with a slap and splatter. Almost as quickly, the fish slip back down to the bottom of the tank; only the paler ones remain visible, ghostlike under the water.

Ads Comparing Salmon Farming to Smoking Immature, Industry Says

canada.com, February 9,2011

VICTORIA — Aggressive advertisements by an anti-fish farming group, comparing salmon farming to cancer, have been dismissed as immature and inappropriate by the B.C. Salmon Farmers Association.

Canada Invests in Nova Scotia’s Aquaculture

TheFishSite, 17 September 2010

Federal funding of $1.2 million has been announced for Canaqua Seafoods Ltd. through DFO’s Aquaculture Innovation and Market Access Programme (AIMAP).This funding will support a project to optimize land-based tank farming of Atlantic Halibut.

Farmed Salmon Lands Sustainable Markets

canada.com, 14 September 2010

Agassiz-based fish farmer Bruce Swift has come a long way from his first foray five years ago trying to sell his tank-raised coho salmon to local restaurants.

Canada's Aquaculture Industry Netting $2.1 Billion Annually

The Canadian Press, 23 April 2010

New report by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans says Canada's aquaculture industry generates $2.1 billion for the economy each year and contributes thousands of jobs in coastal and rural communities. But the report, to be released Friday by DFO, is being met with skepticism by fish farm opponents who allege the industry has decimated commercial fisheries.

UNB Researcher Fights Cod Aquaculture Parasite

dailygleaner.canadaeast.com, 22 April 2010

Cod aquaculture may be a budding business in Atlantic Canada, but for all its promise it is also literally plagued with a huge problem - an affliction that a University of New Brunswick biology student is studying in order to help find a solution.

Investigation Continues Into Dead Lobster

The Saint Croix Courier, Feb. 18, 2010

Environment Canada is continuing its investigation into how lobsters in Grand Manan, and Deer Island were exposed to the agricultural pesticide cypermethrin.The Saint Croix Courier was the first to report on the investigation Jan. 12 after a number of dead lobsters were found in traps in Grand Manan, Pocologan and Deer Island late last year.

CANADA - 40,000 Fish Escape Farm

timescolonist.com

Gillnetters near Sointula report catching Atlantic salmon.

A recovery vessel working for a fish-farming company recovered about 1,100 escaped Atlantic salmon yesterday, and will continue working over the weekend to catch more of the estimated 40,000 escaped fish.

CANADA - Fish Farming Court Order Confounds Federal Government

straight.com, 30 December 2009

A landmark court decision regarding the regulation of fish farms continues to cause legal ripples. Last February, fish biologist Alexandra Morton and a few other petitioners won a declaration that provincial regulation of the ocean-finfish aquaculture industry was unconstitutional.