Pure Salmon News Archive
Pure Salmon Joins “Migration” to Protect BC’s Salmon
In an effort to move British Columbia's salmon farms from water to land, the Pure Salmon Campaign will spend the next two weeks with Alexandra Morton and hundreds of other activists on the “Get Out Migration,” a 250-mile journey across Vancouver Island.
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Scotland: Fisheries Biologists Object to Salmon Farm Site
Eighteen Senior Fisheries Biologists object to Lighthouse Caledonia’s salmon farm application in Broad Bay on the west coast of Scotland, pointing to studies that fish farms constitute “a significant threat” to recovering local populations of healthy wild salmon and sea trout fisheries.
Read the letter (PDF)
Pure Salmon on Norwegian Television
Norwegian channel TV2 recently featured a segment on our latest ad protesting Norwegian salmon farming in British Columbia. If you have a TV2 subscription, you can watch the story online here.
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Spotlight on Vancouver Winter Olympics
The salmon farming industry is threatening Vancouver's marine environment and contributing to the decline of wild salmon. This olympic season, the Pure Salmon Campaign and Canadian Groups are urging Norway to protect British Columbia's iconic wild salmon and wildlife.
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Global Film Launch
February 16 marks the global debut of "Farmed Salmon Exposed - The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry." This documentary is now available to view in full on line.
Watch the film
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King of Norway Pressured to Protect Wild Salmon
Pure Salmon Campaign and its allies appeal to Norway’s King Harald V to help stop the killing of wild fish by Norwegian-owned open net cage salmon farms.
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Deceptive Farmed Salmon Advertisement
Groups lodge formal complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against the Norwegian Seafood Export Council for its October 2009 ad in Cooking Light magazine citing "unfair, deceptive, or fraudulent practices in the marketplace."
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Fish Farms on BBC Radio Scotland
On February 13, the BBC Radio Scotland program Out of Doors interviewed Fiona Cameron of the Sea Trout Group and the North Atlantic Salmon Trust. She spoke on the damages fish farming is doing to Scotland's wild fish stock through farm escapes and the spread of sea lice.
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Pure Salmon Campaign hosts screening of “Farmed Salmon Exposed” at Seafood Summit
On February 1 in Paris, France, the Pure Salmon Campaign hosted a film screening to show how Norwegian salmon farming operations in British Columbia and Chile threaten iconic wildlife and the marine environment. “Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry,” produced by Canadian filmmaker Damien Gillis, visually portrays the damage caused by open-net salmon farms to marine ecosystems worldwide.
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New offshore aquaculture bill
On December 17, U.S. Congresswoman Lois Capps (D-23) introduced the National Sustainable Offshore Aquaculture Act of 2009. This legislation would establish national standards for off-shore fish farms. There is currently no overarching policy governing aquaculture development in federal marine waters.
Read Rep. Capps's release (PDF) and a statement from the Pew Environment Group, a partner organization in the Pure Salmon Campaign.
Pure Salmon Campaign to host Paris debut film screening at Seafood Summit
January 28, 2010
On Monday, February 1 at 10:30 a.m. CET at the Paris Marriot Rive Gauche Hotel & Conference Center, the Pure Salmon Campaign will host a film screening to show how Norwegian salmon farming operations in British Columbia and Chile threaten iconic wildlife and the marine environment. Speakers at the Seafood Summit event will discuss current problems affecting the global farmed salmon industry and will propose more sustainable solutions.
The 7 foods experts won't eat
November 24, 2009
Liz Vaccariello, Editor-in-Chief for Prevention Magazine, writes about food safety and what foods to avoid, including farmed salmon. Dr. David Carpenter gives commentary about the safety of eating farmed salmon, saying that "you can only safely eat one of these salmon dinners every 5 months without increasing your risk of cancer."
Global Week of Action
November 9, 2009
The fourth annual Global Week of Action starts Monday, November 9th. This year, at events occurring around the world, the Pure Salmon Campaign and coalition partners will premiere a new documentary by Canadian filmmaker Damien Gillis, "Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry."
Video Report: DFO at AquaNor While Fraser Sockeye Crash
August 31, 2009
Filmmaker Damien Gillis' report from the world's biggest fish farming trade show in Trondheim, Norway. Gillis asked Minister Shea how she responds to criticism of the optics of DFO being in Norway while the iconic Fraser River Sockeye run collapses, with possible links to the salmon farming industry.
King of Norway Receives Letter Urging Protection for Canada’s Wild Salmon
August 18, 2009
NRK TV aired this story of Don Staniford from the Pure Salmon Campaign presenting Norway’s King Harald with a letter in which he urged Norway to stop the destruction of the Canadian wild salmon during the opening of the Aqua Nor exhibition in Trondheim.
Pure Salmon Campaign Urges King of Norway to Protect Canada’s Wild Salmon
August 17, 2009
At Aqua Nor, a biannual international aquaculture trade show, the Pure Salmon Campaign will call upon King Harald of Norway to insist that Norwegian-owned companies operating salmon farms in Canadian waters adopt strict environmental standards to protect British Columbia’s wild salmon populations.
Official report reveals that salmon aquaculture in Chile uses 600 times more antibiotics than Norway
Oceana - July 24, 2009
Oceana Chile, a partner organization in the Pure Salmon Campaign, recently obtained data from the Chilean Ministry of Economy confirming excessive use of antibiotics in Chilean farmed salmon. According to the Minister's report, Chile used almost 600 times more antibiotics than the larger Norwegian industry. Chile in 2008 used 325,616 kg of antibiotics.
Marine Harvest releases sustainablility report
July 16, 2009
While Marine Harvest is to be applauded for their effort towards greater transparency, the report still lacks sufficient data on use of sea-lice chemicals, such as SLICE.
Aquacultural Revolution: The scientific case for changing salmon farming
Watershed Watch - June 16, 2009
Many prominent scientists and First Nation representatives speak their minds about the salmon farming industry and the numerous problems associated with it in the film Aquacultural Revolution.
Pure Salmon Campaign Coalition Visits Norway for Cermaq, Marine Harvest 2009 Annual General Meetings
May 14, 2009
From May 18 – 28, members of the global Pure Salmon Campaign coalition will visit Norway to highlight major problems plaguing the farmed salmon industry. During the trip, this diverse group of stakeholders will meet with: Members of Parliament, labor union leaders, salmon farmers, scientists, financial analysts, Chilean and Canadian embassy officials, shareholders, boards of directors, river owners and fishermen. More...
U.S. FDA Reports Show Unapproved Chemicals Used by Largest Chilean Salmon Farms
April 23, 2009
Documents recently acquired from the U.S. FDA reveal that three Chilean salmon farming companies, including the two largest producers of farmed salmon, used a number of drugs not approved by the U.S. government. The documents further show that the farmed salmon containing residues of unapproved chemicals were destined for the U.S. market.
New Study: Fish Farms Drive Wild Salmon Populations Toward Extinction
December 13, 2007
A study appearing in the December 14 issue of the journal Science shows, for the first time, that parasitic sea lice infestations caused by salmon farms are driving nearby populations of wild salmon toward extinction.
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New Data on Escapes from Salmon Farms Reveals Magnitude of Global Problem
November 27, 2007
At an organic aquaculture symposium hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), the Pure Salmon Campaign presented a paper that provides, for the first time, an international inventory of reported escapes from open net cage salmon farms and calls for the U.S. to prohibit fish raised in open net cages from carrying the organic label.
Chilean Trade Association Blocks Environmental Stakeholders from Attending ISA Conference
November 19, 2007
Industry trade association SalmonChile and Chilean national fisheries service Sernapesca began a two-day workshop on ISA, a highly contagious disease affecting farmed salmon, but barred environmental organizations from participating in the meeting and gaining access to key information.
At Least One Million Farmed Salmon with Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA) Slaughtered
August 8, 2007
Pure Salmon Visits Norway for Marine Harvest AGM
June 13, 2007
Pure Salmon Campaign representatives accompanied by global allies from Canada and a labor union representative from Chile attended the Marine Harvest annual general meeting in Norway.
Video Presentation to Cermaq
May 17, 2007
Alexandra Morton prepared a video presentation for the 2007 Cermaq Annual General Meeting on the impact of salmon farming on the Broughton Archipelago.
Farmed Fish Eating Contaminated Fish Meal
May 9, 2007
U.S. investigators found that farm-raised fish have been eating fish meal laced with melamine, the same chemical linked to the recent pet food recall and pet deaths.
The Bush Administration Introduces an Open-Ocean Aquaculture Bill
April 24, 2007
The National Offshore Aquaculture Act would allow industry to establish fish farms in ocean waters three to 200 miles offshore.
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