Tag: “salmon farming”

A black bear catching a wild salmon

Grow out and get out

So, is the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) removing fish farms from BC waters by 2025 (ie this year)? Or are they planning to expand the industry, locking the coast in for another 6

Cermaq Canada Expansion Clayoquot Sound

Cermaq’s ongoing expansions

Cermaq Canada recently received approval to expand 3 facilities in Clayoquot Sound, and they currently have 7 more expansion applications under review.

When wild salmon win—we all win!

Salmon farms are coming of the ocean in record numbers—in the Broughton Archipelago, Discovery Islands, shishalh nation and Washington State!

Stop Cermaq’s Clayoquot Expansion

Wild salmon populations are close to collapse in British Columbia. With all the debate about salmon farming, you’d think fish farm companies would see the writing on the wall. But it appears not. Cermaq is

Crowdfunder Launched! Donate to earn prizes!

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 farms are having major impacts on wild salmon populations. But momentum

Mass die-off on 3 Tofino fish farms

Cermaq is experiencing a mass die-off at three of their salmon farm operations in the Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Region, north of Tofino, British Columbia, in the territory of Ahousaht First Nations. On Thursday November

Chum salmon infected with sea lice

Clayoquot emergency drug trial

Norwegian salmon farming giant Cermaq has a salmon lice problem on their Clayoquot Sound salmon farms. Documents released through Access to Information indicate Cermaq obtained an Emergency Drug Release to use the insecticide Lufenuron to

Salmon People: meet Doug Kimoto

Doug’s family settled in Clayoquot Sound in 1920 and, since then, generation after generation of Kimotos have called this coast home. Doug recalls that he has fished since he was a child. The boat pictured