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PSF Statement: Government of Canada decision on Discovery Islands fish farms

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February 17, 2023 Today, the Pacific Salmon Foundation applauds the Government of Canada, under the leadership of the Hon. Joyce Murray, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard (DFO), for the decision to reduce risk to…

New tools help deliver insights into fish health

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Kristi Miller-Saunders of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) leads a team of researchers that focus on infectious disease and environmental stress in salmon. PSF has partnered with her lab since 2013 to develop and deploy genomic technology…

Overview of Broughton Aquaculture Transition Initiative (BATI) program

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Through the Broughton Aquaculture Transition Initiative (BATI) program, PSF is proud to work with several area First Nations as a partner, conducting regular monitoring in and around the active and de-commissioned open-pen net salmon farms. In…
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PSF STATEMENT: Government of Canada outlines next steps in transition from open-net-pen salmon farming in British Columbia

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June 22, 2022 Today, just before the vast majority of B.C. salmon farm licenses were set to expire, the Government of Canada has issued an update on their mandate to transition away from open-net pen salmon aquaculture in British Columbia. The…
Amy Romer

Salmon Health: Recent Studies Pack 1-2 Punch Against Open-net Salmon Farms

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Salmon Health Program poised for further advances thanks to North Family Foundation gift.  Two recent peer-reviewed papers out of PSF’s Salmon Health Program (successor to the Strategic Salmon Health Initiative) help shed light on the impact…
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New research indicates pathogen levels are twelve times higher near salmon farms

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Fraser River sockeye salmon more likely to carry Tenacibaculum maritimum near open-net salmon farms in the Discovery Islands. May 18, 2022 Vancouver, B.C. — New research indicates that Fraser sockeye were much more likely to harbour…
Amy Romer

Salmon Health — PSF and the DFO research team

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One of our core values at the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) is that we never go it alone. We work with partners — People for Salmon — across B.C. and the Yukon who share our passion and resolve to save and restore wild Pacific salmon. One…
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Statement to Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans (FOPO): Open-net salmon farming in B.C.

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The Pacific Salmon Foundation was invited to present at the recent Government of Canada Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans (FOPO). Pacific Salmon Foundation scientists Drs. Andrew Bateman and Brian Riddell provided the following statement…

Advancing salmon health

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Wild Pacific salmon face several obstacles and perils through their life-cycle moving from freshwater to open oceans and back to their natal streams to spawn. Natural human-derived stressors like climate change and open-net pen aquaculture…

Open-net pen transition plan in British Columbia

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Parliamentary Roundtable Report Open-net pen transition plan in British Columbia: initial engagement process Today, Oceans and Fisheries Canada released an interim report on the engagement of British Columbians around open net pen aquaculture.…

PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION POSITION ON AQUACULTURE IN BC

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News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 9th, 2018 The Pacific Salmon Foundation Board of Directors today released the following position on aquaculture in British Columbia: The Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) believes that British Columbia…

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