FISH FARM CLAIM THAT ALGAE BLOOMS ARE ‘NATURAL’ CONTESTED AS 80,000 SALMON DIE Mass mortalities reported by Mowi (formerly Marine Harvest) because of algae blooms at two of their salmon farms in Bantry Bay are ‘partly caused the farms themselves’, according to local group Save Bantry Bay. Algal blooms are becoming an increasing problem worldwide, … Continue reading
West Creek Aquaculture is launching its Pacific Coho salmon in all 170 supermarket locations of Co-op Food Stores, located in Western Canada. The company is also distributing its coho salmon through Grocery People, a wholly owned subsidiary of Federated Co-operatives Limited (FCL) that supplies independent grocery stores across Western Canada. “We’re the only company in Canada producing Coho … Continue reading
Save Bantry Bay Submission: National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Consultation The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is inviting submissions on a new National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development and related strategic environmental assessment and appropriate assessment. Deadline for receipt of submissions is 5.30pm on 24 July 2015. A copy of the … Continue reading
Norway opens research center for closed-containment salmon farming Undercurrent News, 12 June 2015 Norway has opened a center for researching innovation in closed-containment farming of Atlantic salmon. Four Norwegian research institutions, two outside of Norway, and several industry partners from technology and the aquaculture industry, have now started operations at the center, named CtrlAQUA. … Continue reading
NASF blog: Marine Harvest CEO shoots down land-based salmon farming Undercurrent News, 9 March 2015 A fully-integrated, on-land salmon farm placed beside a major city will exist sooner or later, according to Akva Group CEO Trond Williksen. For the next few years, a ‘post-smolt’ system – in which smolt are grown to perhaps 500g … Continue reading
UAE farmer, trader, preparing to launch on-land salmon farm pilot Undercurrent News, 21 Nov 2014 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Asmak, or International Fish Farming Holding Co., has seen a strong turnaround in results in 2014 and is rapidly growing its trading arm, group CEO Mamoon Othman told Undercurrent News. It is also now … Continue reading
Group Calls for “Fundamental Rethinking” of Government’s Salmon Farming Policy West Cork Times, 12 Oct 2014 By Stephen Johnson Salmon Watch Ireland this weekend called for a “fundamental rethinking” of the Government’s salmon farming policy, warning that large-scale marine operations are having “catastrophic” effects on the sector. “It is time that Ireland embraced … Continue reading
Danish on-land salmon farmer predicts return to strong market after production halt Undercurrent News September 11, 2014, 8:57 am Neil Ramsden Danish on-land salmon farming firm Langsand Laks expects a return to the strong demand market it has been experiencing once its ten-month hiatus to combat bacteria is completed. In mid-October the firm will harvest the … Continue reading
Save Bantry Bay Informs TDs of Ireland’s Largest Ever Farmed Salmon Escape 6 May 2014 Today, Save Bantry Bay wrote to all TDs informing them of Ireland’s largest ever farmed salmon escape. Information regarding the incident in which 230,000 farmed fish were lost in Bantry Bay continues to be withheld. Reports by the Department of … Continue reading
At Swim, Two Salmons Robert Allen, An Phoblacht, 2 March 2014 It is 26 December 1796. Wolfe Tone laments his fate. ‘Notwithstanding all our blunders, it is the dreadful stormy weather and the easterly winds, which have been blowing furiously and without intermission since we made Bantry Bay, that have ruined us.’ Five days have … Continue reading
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