Worth Reading
October 24, 2022: Fall Webinars on Great Lakes Water Quality, Survey Available, Updated Newsletter Coming Soon - IJC Great Lakes Connection
August 12, 2022: Canadian wastewater surveillance expanding to new public health threats: Tam
Laura Osman, The Canadian Press
https://www.cp24.com/news/canadian-wastewater-surveillance-expanding-to-new-public-health-threats-tam-1.6025206?cache=%3FclipId%3D68596
July 29, 2022 - CBC, The Current - A deep dive into the salmon farming industry, with Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, authors of ‘Salmon Wars: The Dark Underbelly of Our Favorite Fish’
Episode can be heard between 22:30 - 46:00
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-july-29-2022-1.6536025
A Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent and a former private investigator dive deep into the murky waters of the international salmon farming industry, exposing the unappetizing truth about a fish that is not as good for you as you have been told.
A decade ago, farmed Atlantic salmon replaced tuna as the most popular fish on North America’s dinner tables. We are told salmon is healthy and environmentally friendly. The reality is disturbingly different.
In Salmon Wars, investigative journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins bring readers to massive ocean feedlots where millions of salmon are crammed into parasite-plagued cages and fed a chemical-laced diet. The authors reveal the conditions inside hatcheries, where young salmon are treated like garbage, and at the farms that threaten our fragile coasts. They draw colorful portraits of characters, such as the big salmon farmer who poisoned his own backyard, the fly-fishing activist who risked everything to ban salmon farms in Puget Sound, and the American researcher driven out of Norway for raising the alarm about dangerous contaminants in the fish. Frantz and Collins document how the industrialization of Atlantic salmon threatens this keystone species, endangers our health and environment, and lines the pockets of our generation's version of Big Tobacco. And they show how it doesn't need to be this way.
Just as Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation forced a reckoning with the Big Mac, the vivid stories, scientific research, and high-stakes finance at the heart of Salmon Wars will inspire readers to make choices that protect our health and our planet.
June 6, 2022 - The Hatchery Crutch, by the TYEE
Wild salmon struggle from California to Alaska, despite 243 hatcheries. What did we get wrong about manufactured fish?
https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/06/06/The-Hatchery-Crutch/?utm_source=weekly&utm_medium=email&location=intro
June 6, 2022 - What does it mean to be part of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve?
May 22, 2022 - How Egypt is Sustainably Becoming the World’s largest fish producer" Do we really want this here?
https://youtu.be/lJ8wbIuKvoE
May 22, 2022 - Artificial Intelligence Fish Farm and Hygienic Factory | Korean food"
https://youtu.be/ByVK9WlsUkY
May 22, 2022 - "Hybrid Magur Fish Farming Business | Million Of Hybrid Magur Eating Food in Tank | Fish Farm in Asia"
https://youtu.be/JFX1Dgz4d6k
May 22, 2022 - Hybrid Mangur Fish Farming Business In India || Mangur Machli Eating Food In Pond
https://youtu.be/6ERc5MOg3Kg
May 22, 2022 - Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food
https://youtu.be/RYYf8cLUV5E
April 16, 2022 - Canada ignored warnings of virus infecting farmed and wild salmon
Government was in possession of a newly-released report that linked large-scale farms and wild salmon to contagious virus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/infected-farmed-wild-salmon-canada-virus-report
April 16, 2022 - TVO Special - Tripping the Bruce
Watch full video: https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/tripping-the-bruce
Trailer on Youtube below:
February 9, 2022
IntraFish: $48 trillion investor group calls for urgent action on feed alternatives as salmon farming industry approaches 'supply shock'.
https://www.intrafish.com/feed/-48-trillion-investor-group-calls-for-urgent-action-on-feed-alternatives-as-salmon-farming-industry-approaches-supply-shock/2-1-1164385
Aquatic studies will determine the future of the salmon farm plan
https://newsofcanada.net/aquatic-studies-will-determine-the-future-of-the-salmon-farm-plan/
February 8, 2022 - Heavy Storms Linked to Germs in Great Lakes Drinking Water: IJC Health Professionals Advisory Board Report
January 28, 2022
P.E.I. halibut hatchery declares bankruptcy, owing $4.7M to government
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6331576
December 23, 2021 - Farmed Norwegian Salmon World’s Most Toxic Food
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYYf8cLUV5E
Posted December 20, 2021
Sea West News: Atlantic Sapphire’s aquaculture woes is a cautionary tale
https://seawestnews.com/atlantic-sapphires-aquaculture-woes-is-a-cautionary-tale/
October 27, 2021
IntraFish: Mowi to temporarily cease operating Canada salmon hatchery, blames Trudeau administration.
https://www.intrafish.com/salmon/mowi-to-temporarily-cease-operating-canada-salmon-hatchery-blames-trudeau-administration/2-1-1089364
October 25, 2021
The False Promise of Economic Development
“Industrialized aquaculture carries a price tag beyond environmental damage. While it is certainly profitable for companies operating the facilities, those benefits are not shared with the communities that host them. The most fundamental concern with industrially-scaled aquaculture is that it uses a public resource — the ocean and access to everything in it — for private profit, while leaving the externalized costs, like pollution, habitat damage and threats to wild fish populations, for others to deal with. Governments and some NGOs have approached aquaculture as a way to develop economies, and aquaculture companies have pledged to bring jobs and opportunity to their host communities. Unfortunately, most aquaculture has not lived up to these promises — exploitative labor is common worldwide, and communities that host aquaculture facilities see few of the profits. The economic impact of a corporation controlling large areas in the ocean and paying workers poorly ripples out to harm the rest of the community, displacing other ways of life and forcing a community-wide dependency on industrial aquaculture.” https://foodprint.org/reports/the-foodprint-of-farmed-seafood/
Although industrial aquaculture operations can expand quickly and temporarily generate jobs and revenue in a community, they are also vulnerable to shocks. Changes in demand or production problems can quickly bring these operations crashing down, dragging entire communities with them. These boom-and-bust cycles often end with larger companies buying out the failed operations. This consolidation makes future disruptions even more damaging.” https://foodprint.org/reports/the-foodprint-of-farmed-seafood/
“Unsustainable aquaculture has emerged around the world to offer less expensive seafood. As with animal agriculture on land, large-scale fish farming is detrimental to the health of the environment, the animals, and the people where these farms are located, and beyond. This kind of large-scale production strays from what aquaculture could be: a way to regenerate ocean ecosystems while providing local food and employment.” https://foodprint.org/reports/the-foodprint-of-farmed-seafood/
October 20, 2021
IntraFish: Largest-ever retail promotion of land-based farmed salmon falls short of expectations.
https://www.intrafish.com/markets/largest-ever-retail-promotion-of-land-based-farmed-salmon-falls-short-of-expectations/2-1-1085050
October 19, 2021
The real dollar-value of the Great Lakes is almost impossible to calculate? Allowing a fish farm to drain it, seems terribly wasteful.
The Great Lakes support a US$6 trillion regional economy. But their value goes well beyond, including benefits such as aesthetics, wildlife habitat, biodiversity conservation, recreational fishing, swimming, boating and aquatic life support. The lakes also provide drinking water to nearly 40 million people in both Canada and the United States.
Yet because most so-called “ecosystem services” are not transacted through markets, they are given a zero value by conventional measures. This raises the risk that the true value of ecosystem services are ignored, or at least under-considered, in public decision making. Giving away to billionaires and corporations an invaluable resource is shallow almost stupid thinking.
We don’t need to look very far for examples. In the 20th century, vigorous industrial activity in the Great Lakes region created good jobs and income benefits, but, in many cases, came at a substantial environmental cost, leaving current generations paying for the cleanup of many highly contaminated areas. And we are still paying!
There is growing awareness of the need to better understand, measure and communicate the true value of Great Lakes ecosystem services. But how do we do this?
A comprehensive literature review underscored a large knowledge gap: Only a handful of nonmarket valuation studies have been applied to the Great Lakes. Still one encouraging outcome has been establishing a community focus as a way to elevate and prioritize studies that recognize the full range of values of the Great Lakes.
The science of ecosystem service valuation, which brings together ecologists and economists, is an attempt to understand and quantify, usually in monetary units, the extent to which ecosystem services contribute to the welfare of society.
The values held by members of society are typically inferred by observing choices they make or using structured interview techniques. The point is to create knowledge that can lead to better and more informed public decision making that fully considers the impact of ecosystem services on social welfare.
A common concern is that putting a dollar value on nature could cheapen it by reducing it to a commodity. However, proponents of valuation note that people make choices every day that affect the environment, which reflect the implicit values they hold. Nonmarket valuation attempts to more clearly express those values so public decision making can be based on transparent and complete metrics.
Nonmarket valuation is not without challenges. Some ecosystem services are difficult to quantify, so it is inevitable that some values will go unmeasured.
For example, the contribution of ecosystem services to cultural and spiritual identity is unlikely to be measurable using conventional methods. Also, because valuation methodologies often rely upon structured interviews about hypothetical changes to environmental quality, there is always the potential for inaccurate or biased responses. But methodologies have evolved to expand the range of services to value, which helps minimize the potential for bias. They continue to evolve and improve over time.
Any decision we make as a society that affects Great Lakes ecosystems reflects our valuation for generations, whether or not we make that valuation explicit. Making valuation explicit helps to ensure transparency in decision making, identifies winners and losers resulting from a decision, and ensures that the environmental costs or benefits of a project are measured on a level playing field with conventional economic costs or benefits such as income or employment. Now more than ever before, a more concerted effort is needed to make nonmarket valuation of ecosystem services a consistent and core component of science, monitoring and assessment efforts in the Great Lakes.
R. Crane
October 19, 2021
Why you might not be getting the salmon you paid for.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-you-might-not-be-getting-the-salmon-you-paid-for
September 30 2021:
Largest proposed Ontario fish farm opposed by locals fighting water recycling into area bay
https://farmersforum.com/largest-proposed-ontario-fish-farm-opposed-by-locals-fighting-water-recycling-into-area-bay/
September 20: 2021
IntraFish: Salmon farming giant Mowi loses thousands of close-to-harvest fish in mass mortality event.
https://www.intrafish.com/aquaculture/salmon-farming-giant-mowi-loses-thousands-of-close-to-harvest-fish-in-mass-mortality-event/2-1-1066332
September 16, 2021 - Health Experts Offer Framework for Basinwide Study to Track Fecal Contamination Sources | International Joint Commission. Even today, one in three agencies have absolutely no idea of source of pollution in their section of Great Lakes
https://ijc.org/en/health-experts-offer-framework-basinwide-study-track-fecal-contamination-sources
IntraFish: $1 billion gone in just 8 months. Has the land-based salmon farming bubble finally burst?
https://www.intrafish.com/salmon/-1-billion-gone-in-just-8-months-has-the-land-based-salmon-farming-bubble-finally-burst-/2-1-1059654
August 29, 2021 - Wetlands for our future
Dr. Olena Volik, a post doctoral fellow and wetland specialist from the University of Waterloo has joined our efforts to stop this proposed aquaculture facility. She has met with our group and shared with us some of the other potential negative impacts of this project on the site itself-a provincially designated wetland of significance.
Sent from my iPadPosted July 28, 2021
Factory-farmed salmon: does it make sense to grow fish in indoor tanks?
Posted July 28, 2021
Potential effects of pharmaceuticals and their residues in aquatic environment
Posted July 26, 2021:
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre: Enhanced Watershed Testing & Conservation Partnership In Bruce County.
Local municipalities work hard to ensure safe water except town of South Bruce.
https://www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/2021/07/22/enhanced-watershed-testing-conservation-partnership-in-bruce-county/
Posted July 26, 2021:
Aqua medicines for sustainable farm fishing
https://sabsesastakart.com/blogs/useful-aqua-medicines/aqua-medicines-for-sustainable-fish-farming
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