Worldnews - Salmon farmer estimated ISA loss was USD 5,000 million. Carlos Odebret, SalmonChile general manager, ensures salmon industry is recovering. (Photo: SalmonChile/Fipasur) Salmon farmer estimated ISA loss was USD 5,000 million CHILE Thursday, September 29, 2011, 23:10 (GMT + 9) The spread of the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus between 2007 and 2009 might have cost the country between USD 3,000 and USD 5,000 million, as it was estimated by the president of the Association of the Chilean Salmon Industry AG (SalmonChile), José Ramón Gutiérrez. However, the businessperson said that "what is important is to have learnt a lesson.
" For the leader, the self-regulations that the Salmon Bureau is considering to set will prevent this type of events – the spread of the ISA virus in farms of the country -- from happening again. Nevertheless, he stressed that it is necessary to continue working especially on issues related to the regulatory framework, the production model, the institutional character of the industry and investment on research. Day 2 Disease/Aquaculture Cohen Inquiry - alexandra morton. Today the same four people were on the stand, about 50 people attended. Dr. Kent was contracted to write a technical report for the Cohen Commission on "Infectious diseases and potential impacts on survival of Fraser River sockeye salmon. " While the expectation was that this work would evaluate the potential impact of of salmon farm-origin pathogens, this was not the case. McDade: have you talked about the risk of transfer of farm disease to wild salmon? Kent: no McDade: Did you look at the fish farm health database?
Kent: I scanned them this morning McDade: Did you have the farm disease database when you wrote your report? Next Greg McDade pulled up a BC Provincial farm salmon health database called BCP002864 and tells the Commission there are 1,100 references in it to the classical signs of ISA virus lesions. A BC provincial vet reported the classic lesions associated with the lethal salmon virus ISA 1,100 times !!!! WHOA!! McDade: You didn't cite any of these papers in your report Kent: Yes.
$70 million to promote salmon farms and $25 million for a public inquiry... Pool 32 Mag. Salmon Are Sacred | - Calling the Wild Salmon People. Cohen Commission. Greg McDade,"The Lion" My Movie 6. Precautionary Principle Missing in Protecting Wild Salmon. In Praise of Farmed Salmon- a tribute to Dr. Saksida. Industry Reform | Farmed And Dangerous. In January 2006 the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform and Marine Harvest Canada (MHC) completed a “Framework for Dialogue“, which among other elements, provided a process for developing collaborative research to explore questions about sea lice and the viability of closed containment aquaculture systems.
There have been some positive gains through the course of the working relationship, including negotiated safer migration routes for juvenile salmon in the Broughton Archipelago resulting in a reduction in sea-lice on wild salmon in the area. Some joint sea lice research has been launched in the Broughton Archipelago that has confirmed the benefits of the fallowing program, but this has not led to better salmon farm management at MHC farms in other areas of the coast.
CAAR and MHC also launched a benefit-cost analysis comparing net-pen salmon farming to closed containment systems. Alexandra morton. Title Fight at Cohen Commission: Morton vs. Industry-Government Juggernaut. Yesterday, on the penultimate day of the Cohen Commission’s hearings on aquaculture and diseases, Alexandra Morton finally took the stand. To say the event lived up to its billing is an understatement, as the Inquiry often characterized by technocratic tedium was jolted to life in its final rounds. At the heart of the conflict lay the pattern of breathtaking industry-government collusion and secrecy that has characterized the aquaculture issue for decades – to a degree even I didn’t fully fathom until now. Joining Morton and Living Oceans Society’s Catherine Stewart (who acquitted herself admirably) on the stand were two industry reps: Clare Backman, Director of Sustainability for Marine Harvest (now there’s an oxymoron), and Mia Parker, formerly of Grieg Seafoods, but now of DFO.
The Commission’s lawyer introduced Ms. Parker saying, “I’m not asking you to wear your DFO hat today, as that would be confusing.” It’s actually simpler than it sounds. It’s called a conflict of interest. Cohen Inquiry Aquaculture Hearings August 31 - alexandra morton. Today on the stand we had three vets in addition to Trevor Swedfager who was back from yesterday. Dr. Gary Marty (Fish Pathologist, Animal Health Centre, Ministry of Agriculture) does all the actual farm salmon examinations for the BC government auditsDr. Peter McKenzie (Veterinarian and Fish Health Manager, Mainstream Canada)Dr. Mark Sheppard (Lead Veterinarian, Aquaculture Environmental Operations, DFO)Trevor Swerdfager (formerly Director General, Aquaculture Management Directorate, DFO Today we hit a low. Honour and truth abandoned. Dr. From 2006 - 2010 (spring) Dr. McDade - Dr. Marty – yes, since Aug 2004 McDade - Since that time you have not given any diagnosis of Marine Anemia because you don’t believe in it?
Marty – Marine Anemia is a clinical diagnosis, but I do observational diagnosis so I might diagnose the lesions and comment that this is a common finding with Marine Anemia in Chinook salmon, but then Dr. OK this is confusing. It gets worse: McDade - Have you read Dr. GAO: Farm raised seafood could cause cancer « US Food Safety. About half of the seafood imported into the U.S. comes from farmed fish. Due to lack of FDA oversight, fish grown in confined aquacultured areas can have bacterial infections, which may require farmers to use drugs like antibiotics, according to a U.S. GAO report: “Seafood Safety: FDA Needs to Improve Oversight of Imported Seafood and Better Leverage Limited Resources”. The residues of some drugs can cause cancer and antibiotic resistance. FDA’s oversight program is limited to enforcing (HACCP) the internationally recognized food safety management system–by conducting inspections of foreign seafood processors and importers each year. The FDA’s sampling program does not generally test for drugs.
Like this: Like Loading... Alexandra Morton's Salmon Fight. Hell to pay for letting ISA virus into the Pacific. Audio: Damien Gillis Talks Cohen Commission, BC Hydro on CHLY. Get MP3 (55 MB) Listen to Damien Gillis and CHLY’s “A Sense of Justice” host Rae Kornberger’s recent wide-ranging discussion on the war being waged against fish by both the Canadian and BC Governments. The pair cover everything from Stephen Harper’s underhanded plan to gut the fisheries act in order to pave the way for oil pipelines and other major industrial projects that would harm fish habitat, to news on the impacts of salmon farms and private river diversion projects on wild fish.
(March 14, 2012 – 46 min) Damien Gillis Damien Gillis is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker with a focus on environmental and social justice issues - especially relating to water, energy, and saving Canada's wild salmon - working with many environmental organizations in BC and around the world. He is the co-founder, along with Rafe Mair, of The Common Sense Canadian, and a board member of both the BC Environmental Network and the Haig-Brown Institute.
More articles by Damien Gillis » On the Stand at Cohen- - alexandra morton. Being on the stand at the Cohen Commission was a depressing experience. Salmon were not on the minds of the lawyers for the Province of BC and Canada. Mr. Taylor, lawyer for Canada, Mr Prowse for BC and Mr Blair for the BC Salmon Farmers objected to the 60-page report I wrote that pulled together what DFO said, and what the province of BC found about the relationship between salmon farms and the Fraser sockeye. As part of the "Aquaculture Coalition" this is what the Commission expected of me. When my lawyer tried to introduce the report as evidence Taylor objected on the grounds it was "hearsay," and that I was there to give evidence "viva voce," which means in latin "in the living voice. " But when I tried to use my living voice, objections stopped me on the basis that I was not qualified. Only the sockeye that closely passed salmon farms collapsed.
Mr. Taylor: You know that to be wrong? Morton: She did. Morton: I don't think you can hear me. For the record here is what Miller said: MS. Shades of Green: The Sockeye Salmon Murder Mystery. The puzzle of British Columbia’s disappearing Fraser River sockeye is unfolding like a classical murder mystery. Suspects abound. Suspicion has fallen on such culprits as atypical ocean predators, unusual algae blooms, overfishing, inadequate food supplies, and threatening high temperatures in both marine and river ecologies. Each suspect has been carefully investigated and each may have inflicted some injury on the hapless sockeye. But the prime suspect is the salmon farming industry, the Norwegian corporations that have located multitudes of open net-pens in BC’s West Coast waters – many crucially situated along the migration routes of the victimized sockeye. The salmon farming industry possesses the three primary characteristics that make it the prime suspect in this murder investigation: motive, opportunity and means.
The motive is profit. The perfect opportunity for expansion and profits appeared in coastal BC. Ray Grigg More articles by Ray Grigg » Title Fight at Cohen Commission: Morton vs. Industry-Government Juggernaut. Translate. North Atlantic Salmon Fund (NASF). Helping restore Atlantic salmon to their natural abundance. Translate. Scientists warn against økt lakseoppdrett | TV 2 News. I en høringsuttalelse advarer NINA krystallklart mot en økning av kapasiteten. – Dette vil være uforenlig med de nasjonale mål om bevaring av laksebestanden, heter det blant annet i uttalelsen.
Det pekes videre på at det er en overveldende faglig dokumentasjon for at en ytterligere økning av oppdrettslaksen vil forsterke problemene med lakselus. Truer villaksen Seniorforsker Torbjørn Forseth ved NINA sier til TV 2-nyhetene at en ytterligere kapasitetsøkning i oppdrettsnæringen ikke er forenlig med de målene som regjeringen har satt seg både i forhold til bevaring av villaks og i forhold til en bærekraftig oppdrettsnæring. – Det er så klar og sterk advarsel som vi som forskere kan gi i denne situasjonen her.
. – Hva blir konsekvensene hvis det nå blir delt ut nye oppdrettskonsesjoner? – Da vil problemene med lakselusa bare øke på, og vil skape store problemene i forhold til ville laksebestander og ikke minst bestanden av sjøørret i Norge. Ikke bærekraftig – Hva bygger du det på? Translate. Public Still In The Dark On Transgenic Salmon. Effects of parasites from salmon farms on productivity of wild salmon. Why Cohen Matters: Salmon Inquiry's Many Benefits. I attended a fair amount of the recent aquaculture and diseases hearings at the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River sockeye – and like most of the Inquiry’s observers and participants I spoke to, I had a mixed reaction to what I saw.
I shared the consternation of many in attendance at the continued obfuscation from the scientists and managers of DFO, the Province and the aquaculture industry on the stand. Yet, I also believe the Cohen Commission will prove, in the fullness of time, a worthy exercise. Not necessarily because of whatever official recommendations eventually come forth from Justice Cohen, but because of the Inquiry’s many ancillary benefits. There was a palpable undercurrent of frustration that ran through the Commission gallery during the two and a half weeks that diseases and aquaculture were under the microscope. There was the revolving door between the industry and government – on full display. 1. Finally, more specifically, there’s the Kristi Miller story.
DFO in back pocket of Industry, Cohen Inquiry, Sept 6-7-8. Chilliwack Progress - Getting to the 'truth' about farmed salmon. Published: September 20, 2011 9:00 AM Updated: September 20, 2011 9:28 AM At the Cohen Commission hearings, lawyers for BC, Canada and the fish farm industry were effective in diverting attention away from the truth, and this may compromise Justice Bruce Cohen in making final recommendations based on the truth. Well-respected Dr. Alexandra Morton, marine biologist, points out the truth: • Only the sockeye runs that closely passed by salmon farms collapsed. • The clinical condition and genomic evidence point to a mystery sickness that began in Chinook salmon farms on the Fraser sockeye route in the early 1990s, exactly when the sockeye began to collapse.
The pale gills, swollen kidneys and tumor-like lesions were found in both the farm Chinook salmon and the sockeye. . • When the Norwegian companies quietly removed the Chinook farms mid-2007, the first sockeye generation that went to sea since 1992 without being exposed to fish farms returned in historic numbers in 2010. Eddie Gardner.