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Hello Nova Scotia, Goodbye Cermaq

Dan June 10, 2020

By the time we touched down in Halifax back in February, the ice storm had passed. The power

Deadly chinook salmon virus in Tofino Harbour

Dan May 20, 2020

It’s hard to gasp underwater. But that’s what photographer Tavish Campbell did when when he first saw the

Fish farms want to break rules during COVID!

Dan April 3, 2020

In her 2007 book The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein describes how corporate elites worldwide have repeatedly used “the

Harmful Norwegian salmon virus found on Clayoquot fish farms

Dan February 5, 2020

The goal of our ‘Going Viral’ Report was to establish the presence or absence of piscine orthoreovirus (PRV)

Mass die-off on 3 Tofino fish farms

Bonny November 20, 2019

Cermaq is experiencing a mass die-off at three of their salmon farm operations in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO

Unprecedented salmon lice epidemic

Dan May 30, 2019

Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Region wild salmon are heavily infected with sea lice from Norwegian salmon farming giant

Clayoquot emergency drug trial

Dan March 29, 2019

Norwegian salmon farming giant Cermaq has a salmon lice problem on their Clayoquot Sound salmon farms. Documents released

Clayoquot sea lice epidemic

Dan February 12, 2019

In 2018 the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Region saw salmon lice reach levels never seen before on the

Salmon People: meet Doug Kimoto

Dan September 14, 2018

Doug’s family settled in Clayoquot Sound in 1920 and, since then, generation after generation of Kimotos have called

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Of jellyfish and mouth rot

May 27, 2021

We loaded our sampling equipment and camera gear onto Lennie John’s boat, and headed north into his home territory of Ahousaht—to Cermaq’s experimental semi-closed containment

Pesticide dumping in Clayoquot Sound

March 18, 2021

Salmon lice are a tiny crustacean which occurs naturally in the waters of Clayoquot Sound. Fish farms provide an ideal breeding ground for these parasites—with

Discovery Islands out—Clayoquot next!

February 9, 2021

On December 17, 2020, the federal government announced that 19 salmon farms in the Discovery Islands would be phased out over the next 18 months.

In the field with CSI

October 19, 2020

The smokey brown orange haze from this fall’s wildfires cast an apocalyptic hue over Cermaq’s Clayoquot Sound operations. In Tofino we track the vehicles; leaving

Crowdfunder Launched! Donate to earn prizes!

September 18, 2020

Wild salmon in Clayoquot Sound are rapidly sliding towards extinction—only 2 Chinook salmon returned to spawn in Tofino Creek last year. We’re working hard to save wild salmon! Fish

Experimental Fish Farm Arrives in Clayoquot Sound

September 3, 2020

Bonny was cooking an elaborate brunch on a Sunday afternoon when the phone rang. It was Lennie John from Ahousaht First Nation. Tsimka Martin from

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