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Farmed Salmon Industry Will Never Stop Sea Lice

September 28, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - Sea lice live in massive uncontrolled populations inside salmon net pens and they are responsible for taking out hundreds of thousands of farmed salmon every year. A major cost to the industry. How are sea lice contained? Powerful chemicals mostly. This is the biggest reason I refuse to eat farmed salmon.

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Source: Fish Farmer

Salmon lice costing Norway NOK 5 billion a year

By Vince McDonagh - 28th October 2019

Norway's fish farmers spent record levels battling sea lice last year said Nofima

THE task of tackling salmon lice cost Norway’s aquaculture industry more than five billion kroner, or some £440 million last year, a leading researcher has calculated.

Audun Iversen, who works at Nofima, the Norwegian Institute for Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research, says the figure, which he has worked out at NOK 5.2 billion, had reached a record level and is considerably higher than the figure for 2017.

He also believes there were additional indirect costs which he has not included in his calculations, but which were quite significant.

Lice is affecting nearly all areas of fish farming in Norway, he reports. Some of the biggest cost increases centre around using larger smolt in order to reduce production time at sea, and therefore the time fish are exposed to the possibility of lice.

Salmon are also being harvested earlier, which means they are smaller and so the price they fetch is lower.

‘At the moment it is difficult to calculate the figure for both direct and indirect costs,’ he said. ‘But there were some positives, especially from a sustainability point of view, in that the bill for treatment measures is no longer on the rise.

Please go to to read the entire article.

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Grilled Salmon Salad. #NorwaySalmon #Salad #HighProtien

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Whole Foods Stopped Labeling GMO Food Products

October 4, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - In a previous post we briefly mentioned the potential downside of feeding farmed salmon GMO feed. Scientists are coming up with all sorts of feed concoctions for farmed salmon for the reason that farm salmon are becoming so genetically modified, at some point they won’t even resemble whatever is left of the wild salmon populations. Therefore, genetically modified food will be required for this farmed salmon. One of the biggest food suppliers in the US is Whole Foods. Amazon-owned Whole Foods provides farmed salmon for its customers and it was decided by Whole Foods they would stop labelling foods sold by them from having “GMO labels.”

GMO-Fed Farmed Salmon For Dinner

A year after Amazon announced its acquisition of Whole Foods, here’s where we stand

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Source: Mercola

Whole Foods Withdraws Promise to Label GMOs

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• In 2013, Whole Foods issued a statement saying all products in its U.S. and Canadian stores must be labeled to indicate if they contain GMOs; the labeling policy was scheduled to take effect September 1, 2018 On May 18, Whole Foods announced the GMO labeling requirement is being “paused” in response to concerns from suppliers about having to comply with both Whole Foods’ rules and those proposed by the USDA. No new deadline has been issued.

• If Whole Foods ends up adopting USDA rules, many GMO-containing foods will remain unlabeled, as USDA rules only require products created through transgenesis to be labeled as GMO USDA proposed rules for GMO labeling are unsatisfactory at best. It’s not even clear whether “highly refined foods” will be included in the standard, yet a majority of foods sold in grocery stores are highly refined, and are also the most likely to contain GMO ingredients.

• USDA is also not using any of the already familiar phrases such as "genetically modified," "genetically engineered" or GMO on the label. Instead, USDA is using the word "bioengineered" (BE) — a misleading phrase as it sounds far more natural than it is

By Dr. Mercola • July 18, 2018 While Whole Foods Market, founded in 1980, has been a leading retailer of organic produce in the U.S. for decades, the company has faced its share of criticism; in later years being accused of operating more like an industrial organic company rather than a local distributor of high-quality organic food. In 2007, it bought its chief rival Wild Oats — an acquisition initially challenged by the Federal Trade Commission, which said the merger violated federal antitrust laws and provided Whole Foods unilateral market power that could raise prices and lower quality. The issue was eventually settled by selling off the Wild Oats brand and more than 30 physical store locations.1,2 Amazon Now Owns Whole Foods

Last year, Amazon announced its intention to acquire Whole Foods Market and its 465 stores, a $13.7 billion deal that had food manufacturers quaking in their boots, while organic producers worried the deal might compromise and dilute organic food standards even further.3 The acquisition went through on August 28, 2017.4 Within two days of the merger, Whole Foods' store traffic rose by 25 percent. Within the first month, Amazon made $1.6 million off its online sales of Whole Foods private label products. But while the success story of Whole Foods continues, questions about whether it's really socially commendable to shop at Whole Foods have festered well over a decade.5 The company has faced well-deserved criticism for its effects on employees by refusing unionization, the environment due to its limited supply of local produce, and its selling of questionable products such as items containing MSG and rBGH, making label scrutiny a necessity even here. Like most large corporations, it has shareholders to contend with, and the company has been accused of cutting corners to make a profit on more than one occasion. This trend is unlikely to change with Amazon at the rudder. As a matter of fact, while Whole Foods has spent the last five years promoting its promise to implement a comprehensive labeling policy6 for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) — a promise that has been a major selling point to entice customer support — that plan has now been laid aside.

Please go to Mercola to read the entire article.

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If consumers want to continue eating that farmed salmon shit, by all means, go for it: 

GM-fed salmon are being trialled in GM-free Scotland Chow down peasants. Yummy, all the GMO-laden farmed salmon you can eat:

"Eco friendly?" Wild salmon left to their own in their incredibly complex ecosystems is "eco friendly." Wtf? Exclusive: Whole Foods Now Sells Its Most Eco-Friendly Farmed Salmon Ever Wtf is right? That Whole Food's news was in 2016. Now have a look where Norwegian farmed salmon is headed with 60% of farmed salmon (submerged industrial feed lots) provided from Norway. This mass die off of salmon in Norway happened this past May, 2019. "Warm water" was the given reason but this needs more investigation as to the real reason these salmon died off. Eight million salmon killed in a week by sudden surge of algae in Norway

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Farmed Salmon Continue “Escaping” From Net-Pens In Norway

October 1, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - This isn’t the first time farmed salmon have escaped from the net-pens (submerged industrial feed lots) they are held in until ready for market. There are all sorts of problems associated with escaping farmed salmon, the least of which is that they carry different genes from wild salmon. Many of these farmed salmon are being specifically bred and are under constant experimentation by the industry to determine what is possible in raising farmed salmon. How is it these farmed salmon are escaping from these enclosures? Is it possible there is sabotage going on? On August 19, 2017 a net pen break resulted in the accidental release of hundreds of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon near Cypress Island, Skagit County, Washington into the wild. This escape took place connected to the Pacific Ocean. What are farmed raised salmon doing in the Pacific? Why is this industry bringing Atlantic salmon to the Pacific region. Washington state has now banned Atlantic salmon from being brought into the state by 2025.

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Source: Fish Farmer

Norwegians probe rise in salmon escapes

By Vince McDonagh • 30th September 2019

Norwegian farms have reported uncharacteristically high incidents of escapes this year

SEAFOOD Norway has called on its members to carry out a thorough investigation into why so many salmon have escaped from fish farms this year.

The latest figure of more than 280,000 escapes in 30 separate incidents is one of the highest for many years, and seafood minister Harald T Nesvik has bluntly told the industry it is time to get its house in order.

Now the organisation which represents both aquaculture and fishing companies has said it strongly regrets the high figure.

Tarald Sivertsen, head of Seafood Norway’s escapes committee, said: ‘We need to find out why this is happening and then share the experience with the various companies. As an industry, our vision is to have zero escapes.’

He said it was important that measures be taken to ensure that escaped salmon do not adversely affect wild fish in Norway’s many rivers.

Sivertsen stressed that the industry had made progress in recent years, particularly in relation to farmed fish getting into rivers.

But he admitted that the exceptionally high figure this year – with three months of 2019 still to go – had been an unfortunate setback.

Meanwhile, in a move which has the backing of Seafood Norway, the country’s Directorate of Fisheries has ordered companies to monitor all wild fish rivers near their farms to ensure they are kept free of escaped salmon.

Sivertsen also said the industry would continue to focus on all measures to prevent escapes in the future.

Nesvik has called all farming companies to a special meeting in the next few weeks to discuss the problem.

Please go to Fish Farmer to read the entire article.

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Related:

Scottish salmon production drops by 33,682 tonnes

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Farmed Salmon Industry Is Not Sustainable (Farmed Salmon Are Chemical Time Bombs)

September 30, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - Sea lice sometimes incorrectly referred to as “salmon lice”, are causing incredibly expensive and costly havoc in farmed net-pens where salmon are raised. The losses are enormous as we will see in this article. First though, wouldn’t it make more sense to gradually close down these farmed salmon industrial feed lots that have been accused of being toxic dumps where farmed salmon are fed a concoction of a continuously changing diet of feed pellets? Why not reverse course here and focus on a full recovery of wild salmon not only in Norway, but in Chile and Canada as well? The farmed salmon industry needs to have a more balanced and realistic outlook here for the future rather than continue to build more of these toxic waste dumps where “food” is raised. To reduce the destruction of farmed salmon and to save their investments, powerful chemical agents are used to reduce the sea lice that thrive in these submerged industrial feed lots.

The giant Japanese Mitsubishi corporation it is alleged, is planning to build 20 of these net-pens where they expect to raise 20,000 tonnes a year of farmed salmon off the coastlines of Nova Scotia, Canada. These industrially submerged feed lots are not sustainable. That is why the industry needs to constantly move on to new locations. As shown by Alesandra Morton in her research on Canada’s pacific Northwest, wild salmon are not plagued by sea lice. It is only when these toxic dumps put out tons of feces and chemical waste that the sea lice are attracted to where inside these net-pens up to 100,000 salmon are confined per net-pen. 

In the wild, sea lice are naturally found on adult salmon, but because of the ecosystem they live in they do not come into contact with juvenile salmon. When wild salmon return to the rivers and estuaries, whatever sea lice they might be carrying dies with them. The juvenile salmon after spawning, do not have the protective covering of scales, so when they swim past these toxic waste dumps where sea lice are multiplying out of control, the sea lice easily attach themselves to these juvenile salmon. Over the winter, the shores and inlets are naturally washed clean, that way the juvenile salmon can make it to the ocean it what would ordinarily be a sanitized ecosystem repeated year-after-year. Farmed salmon have now comprised the entire ecosystem where wild salmon spawn and live out their lives. Just imagine for a moment how many thousands of pounds of Slice® containing the chemical emamectin benzoate (EB) are poured into these net-pens in Norway, Canada and Chile to control sea lice every year? Slice® is also applied to fish feed, which is then eaten by salmon and absorbed through the gut.

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Source: Intra Fish 

Business intelligence: The salmon farming industry's biggest problem

As farmed salmon production has grown so has the search for a solution to the sea lice challenge.

by Intra Fish Media | March 4th, 2019 

Sea lice continue to be one of the salmon farming sector's biggest challenges. Photo: Fylkesmannen i Sør-Trøndelag

Sea lice infestation is one of the costliest challenges facing the global salmon farming industry.

Estimates of yearly losses caused to global salmon farmers run as high as $1 billion (€880 million) by some calculations. Losses to the Chilean salmon farming industry alone are estimated at $350 million, and in Norway costs associated with combating sea lice were projected to be NOK 4.5 billion ($525 million/€464 million), according to a 2016 report from Norwegian research firm Nofima.

There is, however, lots of good news lurking behind these unsettling numbers. Salmon farming companies, national governments and research institutes around the world are pouring millions of dollars into developing a tool kit of strategies salmon farmers can use to reduce the impact of sea lice infestations on the world's farmed-salmon crop.

Despite the presence of sea lice, Atlantic salmon flourished in the wild down through the centuries, largely unaffected by lice. But as salmon farming – which restricts significant numbers of fish to a confined pen in the water – began to expand and flourish in ‘80s and ‘90s, so, too, did sea lice infestations.

For a while, there seemed a sure remedy for the problem, through the use of in-feed emamectin benzoate, known commercially as SLICE.

But by 2008 it became clear that sea lice treatments such as Slice no longer had their previous effectiveness. Treatments that had previously seen efficacy rates as high as 95 percent suddenly dropped to 70 percent.

This led the industry to investigate whether treatment products were defective, or whether the parasites were starting to become resistant to common treatment methods. Bio assay methods developed in the early 2000s were used by researchers who, indeed, proved declining efficacy rates of treatments were due to resistance.

With the industry's most effective tool against sea lice now becoming less effective, a storm of R&D was unleashed, all focused on solutions for controlling --or even eradicating -- the sea lice scourge.

The new IntraFish Sea Lice Report provides a comprehensive analysis and understanding of the sea lice problem, from its beginnings to today.

Please go to Intra Fish to read the entire article.

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Farmed Salmon Require Reevaluation As a Food Source

September 29, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - When you see and eat farmed salmon here in Japan imported from Norway, the imported farmed salmon looks fresh and healthy. That may be acceptable, however, after studying farmed salmon for the past week have decided to stop eating this food source. The following is one of the reasons why. Notice the fat striations in this farmed salmon imported to Japan from Norway. This is very typical for farmed salmon. What Japanese do not know is that these farmed salmon contains Ethoxyquin in the fatty portion. Ethoxyquin is added to the pellet food fed to farmed salmon.

“Watch an excerpt from "The Fish on My Plate" about Norway's salmon crisis. Author and fisherman Paul Greenberg spent a year traveling the world and eating seafood for breakfast, lunch and dinner in an attempt to find out what sort of fish is both good for him -- and good for the planet. In Alaska's Vasso river, there are more escaped farmed fish than there are wild salmon -- and they're carrying sea lice.”

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The Downside of Eating Farmed Salmon (Tokyo, Japan)

September 25, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - In a previous post I discussed how salmon was never part of the Japanese diet until it was introduced into Japan by a Japanese man working closely with a Norwegian salmon farming company. Personally, I would not eat farmed salmon for a whole number of reasons the least of which is outlined in the investigative research done by the biologist Alex Morton. If you eat farmed salmon and do not know about some of the downsides, then you may want to spend some serious time reading through Alex Morton’s research available off her website. 

The following is a picture of farmed salmon served at a very popular kaiten (conveyor) sushi chain here in Tokyo. I took these pictures earlier today for explanation. In the first image of the slice of farmed salmon (noticeable immediately by the coloring) notice the striations of fat. Whether or not it is raw fish eaten as sushi and sashimi or beef, the Japanese very much enjoy eating that fatty portion (fat striations in the meat). According to Alex Morton’s research, those fatty striations in farmed raised salmon is where drugs such as antibiotics given to these fish accumulate. Those fatty striations between the meat you see in the image below is also where pesticides like glyphosate accumulate. In fact, the salmon farming industry in Canada was requesting removal of section 36 from the Fisheries Act so it can use more drugs.

Image of salmon sushi with fat striations taken on September 25, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan)

In the following image, we see salmon roe (salmon eggs). It is hoped but cannot be verified that much of the roe sold in Japan isn’t being purchased from Russian poachers who take tons of salmon out of the Pacific around the Kamchatka and Sakhalin islands to sell on the black market. The eggs are cut out and thousands and thousands of salmon are disposed of along the shores and banks of rivers to rot every year. Salmon poaching is a disgrace and is a vile profession which needs to stop. These seemingly backwards people who live on the Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka Peninsula appear oblivious to protecting this unique critical fish species. This is still a serious problem in Russia given the huge expanse of area on the Sakhalin islands and the Kamchatka (where this blog gets its name from) Peninsula where people’s lives evolve around salmon. These eggs contain an enormous amount of nutrients, after all, the egg of life from where baby salmon spawn from. The average Japanese could care less about eco systems and where this salmon originates from let alone the possible contamination of farmed salmon imported into Jaan from Norway and Chile.

Image of salmon roe (eggs) taken on September 25, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan)

If you eat farmed salmon read this research:

SALMON CONFIDENTIAL: The ugly truth about Canada’s open-net salmon farms

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Salmon served as sushi is not a Japanese idea for food

September 25, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - Never developed a taste for raw salmon for a number of reasons the least of which are that almost all the salmon served in Japan as sushi, is farmed salmon. The Japanese prior to the 1970s, never ate raw salmon. In fact, prior to the 1970s, Japan never imported fish for consumption. Japan fished the oceans for their own fish.  It wasn’t until Norway came up with the Japan Project to sell farmed salmon to Japan. These are only two reasons I don’t eat raw salmon, but a far more serious reason has to do with the destruction of salmon as a wild species of fish in the critical food chain. People do not seriously think about just how salmon play such an enormous part in the food chain cycle. If this species of fish were permanently destroyed the consequences would be catastrophic.

Farmed salmon sold in Japan from Norway and Chile

The  image on the left above was taken of salmon filets sold at a local market in Japan and are farmed salmon probably imported from either Chile or Norway. Looking at these salmon filets, the striations of fat can be clearly seen, however, in wild salmon, the meat is far darker in color and there are no fat striations. When salmon are farmed, toxins collect in these fatty striations and have been determined as being carcinogenic. A study published in 2009, in the leading scientific journal Science, found significantly higher levels of cancer-causing and other health-related contaminants in farm raised salmon than in their wild counterparts. The study, and by far the largest and most comprehensive done to date, concluded that concentrations of several cancer-causing substances in particular are high enough to suggest that consumers should consider severely restricting their consumption of farmed salmon. In 2013, there were 360,953 cancer related deaths in Japan, and 2014 and 2015 look to be equally as devastating for cancer deaths in the Japanese.

We are now wondering if there exists a correlation between Japan’s high consumption of farmed raw salmon and cancer? In particular, four substances that have been well studied for their ability to cause cancer — PCBs, dioxins, dieldrin, and toxaphene — were consistently and significantly more concentrated in farmed salmon as a group. In the same study mentioned above in the January 9, 2009 issue of Science, it clearly indicated that because of the feed farmed salmon are given (pellets), farmed salmon have much higher levels of carcinogenic pesticides (specifically polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, and two other organochlorine compounds, dieldrin and toxaphene) than wild salmon. Farmed salmon production has increased 40 times in the past decade.

People around the world have tried to protect their home waters from salmon farms for 20 years. Work that is being worked on by activists and the Ahousaht people in British Columbia, Canada whose culture has depended heavily on wild salmon. On September 9, 2015, Ahousaht people stepped onto a fish farm as it was trying to anchor to their territory and told the crew to leave. The behemoth Japanese corporation Mitsubishi in September, 2014 made a US1.4 billion bid to buy the Norwegian fishery Cermaq ASA for 8.88 billion kroner ($1.4 billion) to expand its foods business and become the world’s second-largest salmon farmer. Despite people around the world becoming aware of the dangers of farmed salmon.

Mitsubishi is the largest trading house in Japan and monopolizes most of Japan’s domestic market on many products. Not much gets sold in Japan if this behemoth corporation knows about it. Raw salmon in Japan is a large business as part of the food industry related to eating raw fish (sushi). In the 1970s, Japan did not import a single piece of fish and it did not use salmon for sushi. That all started to change in the 1980s after a Norwegian seafood delegation visited Japan and Project Japan was formed. Today, Norwegian salmon is the sushi fish of choice among young Japanese. It is all farmed salmon and most Japanese are clueless as to the source of this salmon. Project Japan not only blazed a trail for Atlantic salmon (Norwegian farmed salmon) for raw consumption in Japan, but also in Hong Kong and China.  In 2013, it was the biggest year in terms of sales of Norwegian farmed salmon to Japan.

Alexandra Morton is a remarkably brave and persistent activist in British Columbia, Canada who has been documenting and testing farm salmon for diseases that are spread through farm raised salmon and her findings are startling. This important video documentary is well worth spending the time to watch to learn about this incredibly unique and important species of fish and how humans depend on it for their survival.

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300,000 Farmed Salmon Escape From Norwegian Submerged Feed Lot

October 11, 2019 (Tokyo, Japan) - Another case of farmed salmon escaping from their industrial feed lot net-pens. This time around 300,000 farmed salmon escaped from their abusive environments into the ocean. Divers are using harp guns to try and catch the escaped salmon. When farmed salmon escape into the oceans they cause havoc with wild salmon already in the oceans struggling to survive the destruction of their ecosystem. Farmed salmon operations need to be shut down or phased out, either that or moved inland.

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Source: ABC News

Fisher hunters trying to round up 300,000 runaway salmon that escaped Norwegian breeding farms into rivers

By JULIA JACOBO | Oct 9, 2019

An organization is attempting to hunt down some of the hundreds of thousands of salmon that have escaped Norwegian breeding

Fish hunters in Norway are trying to round up as many of the hundreds of thousands of salmon that have escaped breeding facilities this year as they can, and an organization is spending a pretty penny toward those efforts.

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Nearly 300,000 runaway salmon have left the farms and filtered into Norwegian rivers, according to OURO, the country's aquaculture industry association for escaped fish, which is tasked with capturing them.

When fish kept in pens escape into connected bodies of water, it can affect wild populations as they compete for food and spawning partners, according to Seafood Watch, an information website run by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California.

Fish farmed in non-native areas can establish themselves as an invasive species and disrupt the ecosystem.

(MORE: FDA approves genetically-modified salmon)

In addition, when farmed species, which are "distinctly different from their wild cousins," breed with wild species, the genetic makeup of the offspring may be less suited to surviving in the wild, according to Seafood Watch.

Please go to ABC News to read the entire article.