Article by Jeff Nagel in the South Delta Leader.
“The coho eat feed made mainly from locally sourced herring meal.
“No antibiotics or vaccines are used.
“And unlike ocean-based net pen farms, there’s no risk of pollution, disease spread, the proliferation of sea lice or escapees interbreeding with wild stocks.”
Article by Dan MacLennan in the Campbell River Courier-Islander. “The finfish aquaculture regulations are woefully inadequate to protect wild salmon”, said Brian Gunn, President of the BC Wilderness Tourism Association (WTA). “They do not address the impacts that open net cage salmon farms have on the wild salmon stocks. For example, there are no requirements in the current proposed regulations for the salmon farming industry to monitor the health of juvenile wild salmon for impacts due to disease and sea lice around farms during their out migration. In fact there is little in the proposed regulations to protect wild salmon. DFO seem to have forgotten what should be their primary mandate, which is to protect our wild fisheries.”
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Article by Andrew Nikiforuk in The Tyee. “Not too many people in the oil patch speak honestly about the world’s most powerful industry, but (Matt) Simmons did. He didn’t let the money, bullshit or arrogance cloud his judgment. Or his basic reading of geology for that matter.” Read article
Article by Michael Smyth in The Province about Auditor-General John Doyle. “Unfortunately for the Liberals, this sharp-fanged watchdog is unlikely to stop biting into the government’s backside anytime soon. But I’d love to see him take a dingo-sized chomp out of the NDP’s hide, too. Doyle is currently reviewing MLA expense accounts — an area where both parties need a good old Aussie butt-kicking.”
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Article by David Ebner and Wendy Stueck in the Globe and Mail. “Warmer ocean water is believed to have reduced the amount of food for sockeye, and colder water recently might have helped this year’s massive run. The proliferation of fish farms on B.C.’s coast has been blamed for spreading sea lice, and other diseases that prey on young sockeye.” Read article
Article by Chris McGreal in The Guardian. “The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a ‘frankenfish’ by critics.” Read article
Article by Michael Smyth in The Province. “The lawsuit should never have been launched. There was no way a judge was going to go down in the history books as squashing the very first successful citizen-initiative petition ever achieved in Canada.”
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Article by Jennifer Feinberg in the Hope Standard. It’s about a five day paddle down the Fraser River that starts on October 19. Read article
Article by Kate Sheppard in Mother Jones. “EPA administrator Lisa Jackson acknowledged that the impacts of using dispersants underwater and in large volume are largely unknown… Two days later, Jackson directed BP to switch to less-toxic dispersants, but BP said it hadn’t found the alternatives suitable and continued to use Corexit.” Read article