Debate ongoing over fish farming in the Great Lakes

Michigan took a big step forward this summer in the business of fish farming. The state issued a permit to expand the Grayling Fish Hatchery more than tenfold.The hatchery raises trout for restaurants and grocery stores.

The expansion comes as interest in fish farming is growing nationwide and there is now talk of going offshore into the open waters of the Great Lakes.

LINK (via: Michigan Radio)

Ottawa to slash red tape for fish farms

WTF Canada?

The Harper government is laying the regulatory groundwork for a resurgence of the controversial B.C. fish farm industry.

Bureaucratic hurdles and legal uncertainty are being swept away as part of an attempt to help the Canadian industry, which has stagnated for years, to take advantage of rising global demand for seafood, according to testimony by top officials before a Senate committee.

The regulatory changes include a planned exemption from a Fisheries Act prohibition against dumping harmful substances in the ocean, though government and industry officials say the change won’t alter current practices or pose environmental threats.

LINK (via:The Vancouver Sun)

Absolutely Not Kosher

The Norwegian aquaculture industry has received EU authorization to use offal in fish feed. Translation? Farmed salmon can now legally be fed on the waste byproducts from pigs and chickens.

Yummy!

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Alexandra Morton may soon give up her campaign against fish farms

After almost two decades campaigning against open-net fish farms on B.C.'s coasts, biologist Alexandra Morton said Thursday that she is nearly ready to throw in the towel.

Morton said that with the election of a majority Conservative government in Ottawa, which she claims is in support of the fish farm industry, she can't see how she can continue her campaign.

LINK (Via:The Vancouver Sun)