Anti-salmon protest fills beach amid mass farm deaths

Scottish and UK governments blow millions in taxpayer handouts to salmon multinationals

A new report has found nearly £17m shelled out in state subsidies to wealthy foreign-owned salmon farming corporations since 2021.

Anti-salmon protest fills beach amid mass farm deaths

More than one thousand people have protested at a remote beach in opposition to salmon farms which have...

Will Canada’s new Fisheries Minister Chart a New Course for B.C.’s Salmon Farmers?

SeaWestNews As Canada’s new Fisheries Minister, Joanne Thompson must decide whether to follow her predecessors’ activist-driven policies or take a pragmatic, science-based approach to aquaculture in British Columbia The post Will Canada’s new Fisheries Minister Chart a New Course for B.C.’s Salmon Farmers? appeared first on Sea West News.

Scottish salmon farmers appeal sea lice controls

Showing their true colours, Scotland’s salmon farming companies have just appealed en masse against the Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s sea lice regulatory framework, which has been over ten years in the making. As readers will be well aware, WildFish campaigned for many years for stronger regulatory oversight of the Scottish fish farming industry to control the impact on wild salmonids of sea lice emanating from marine fish farms. In 2…

Aquatic farmers rally over spread of havoc-wreaking blackchin tilapia fish - Thai Newsroom

AROUND 200 aquatic farmers from 19 provinces rallied in front of Agricultural Land Reform Office this morning (March 18) to press the government to resolve the spread of havoc-wreaking blackchin tilapia fish in Thai waters with this affecting the ecosystem and also compensate those impacted by the invasion of this fish, Naewna newspaper said. […] The post Aquatic farmers rally over spread of havoc-wreaking blackchin tilapia fish appeared first o…

Boat tours and ash scatterings help beleaguered California salmon fleet stay afloat - The Morning Sun

William Smith has long fished the California coast for salmon, taking avid anglers out on his boat in hopes they'll get to wrestle with and reel in the prized catch. But not anymore. Smith, known as “Capt. Smitty,” now spends time on the seas with aspiring whale watchers, or scattering the ashes of the deceased — whatever it takes to stay afloat since salmon fishing was barred in California two years ago due to dwindling stocks. Smith said a ris…