Friends of Clayoquot Sound: Fish farming: In the media

Articles

"Menu choice upsets some UBC students -- Professors, staff served wild sockeye while residents get farmed salmon"
The Province, 24th February 2005
http://www.canada.com/vancouver/theprovince/soundoff/story.html?id=102d11f4-9d24-4ba9-996b-1576cadee419

"Grieg at war with First Nation - more environmental trouble for Norwegian salmon farmers in Canada"
Dagbladet, 18th February 2005
http://www.dagbladet.no/tekstarkiv/artikkel.php?id=5001050040334&tag=&words=Grieg

"Clean up, Brende - Minister of Trade gets hard criticism in environmental report"
Dagbladet, 14th February 2005
http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2005/02/14/423353.html

"Fish farms causing problems in Muchalat Inlet"
Ha-Shilth-Sa, 10th February 2005
http://www.westcoastaquatic.ca/article_fishfarms_problems_muchalat0205.htm

"Group demands greater public reporting of fish farm escapes"
The Times Colonist, 3rd February 2005
http://www.westcoastaquatic.ca/article_fish_farm_escapes0205.htm

"Fish farm debate renewed"
The Westerly, 22nd December 2004
http://www.westcoastaquatic.ca/article_fishfarm_debate1204.htm

"Spawning controversy - opponents of proposed sablefish farms charge that disease and parasites will devastate wild stocks: sound familiar?"
The Straight, 16th December 2004
http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=7070

"Canada's fish-farm boom is a blow to wild salmon"
Seattle Post Intelligencer, 3rd December 2004
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/202141_joel03.html

"Tla-o-qui-aht works with Clayoquot salmon farm"
Ha-Shilth-Sa, 26th August 2004
http://www.westcoastaquatic.ca/article_Tla-o-qui-aht_salmonfarm0804.htm

"New name, new fish: Clayoquot Sound fish farms restock"
Ha-Shilth-Sa, 3rd June 2004
http://www.westcoastaquatic.ca/article_fishfarms_restock0604.htm

"Organic that isn't"
San Francisco Chronicle, 26th May 2004
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/05/26/FDGPD6R0EM1.DTL

"Cancelled orders for Creative Salmon"
he Westerly, 19th November 2003
http://www.westcoastaquatic.ca/article_creative_cancelled1103.htm

"If you can't beat them, reform them -- Ahousaht natives drop long standing battle against salmon farming"
Tidepool, 22nd January 2003
http://www.tidepool.org/original_content.cfm?articleid=63947

"Can salmon farms be redeemed?: BC fish farmers address some environmental problems, but others remain"
Tidepool, 19th December 2002
http://www.tidepool.org/dispatches/salmonfarmsolutions.cfm

"Pacific suite -- Clayoquot Sound: From wolves to whales, from rain forests to tidal flats -- Vancouver Island's Clayoquot Sound has them all"
National Geographic, February 2003
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0302/feature6/

FOCS publications

Industrial Disease: The Risk of Disease Transfer from Farmed Salmon to Wild Salmon
http://www.focs.ca/archive/ff_report_disease.pdf

Farmed and Dangerous: Human Health Risks Associated With Salmon Farming
http://www.focs.ca/archive/salmon_farming_health_risks.pdf

Nightmare in New Brunswick: A Salmon Farming Disease Lesson for BC
http://www.focs.ca/archive/nightmare_report.pdf

Other publications

"Diminishing Returns - An Investigation into the Five Multinational Corporations that Control British Columbia�s Salmon Farming Industry"
by Sarah Cox and published by the Raincoast Conservation Society
http://www.raincoast.org/aquaculture/index.htm

"Super Unnatural - Atlantic salmon in BC waters"
by Dr John Volpe and published by David Suzuki Foundation
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Oceans/Publications.asp

"The Five Fundamental Flaws of Sea Cage Fish Farming"
by Don Staniford
http://www.salmonfarmmonitor.org/documents/indreports.html

"A Big Fish in a Small Pond: the global environmental and public health threat of sea cage fish farming"
by Don Staniford
http://www.watershed-watch.org/ww/publications/sf/BigFishSmallPond(Chile).pdf

For further information on salmon farming please see:
http://www.farmedanddangerous.org
http://www.salmonfarmmonitor.org/indreports.shtml

You can also order the new book "A Stain Upon the Sea: West Coast Salmon Farming" from FOCS or direct from Harbour Publishing.
"A Stain Upon the Sea" is co-authored by Don Staniford of FOCS as well as Stephen Hume, Alexandra Morton, Otto Langer, Betty Keller and Rosella Leslie.
http://www.harbourpublishing.com/book.php?id=517

Front cover of book - have this as a Jpeg and a PDF (will email you a copy)

Contact us!

Friends of Clayoquot Sound
PO Box 489, 331 Neill St., Tofino BC V0R 2Z0
Tel: 250-725-4218 Fax: 250-725-2527
Email: info@focs.ca