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  • Aquaseed
    Closed containment technologies offer a major step forward in fish farming practices.
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    AgriMarine Inc.
    Providing a physical barrier between wild and farmed fish, closed tanks can eliminate or greatly reduce many of the negative impacts of out-dated net-cage salmon farming.
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    Freshwater Institute
    Having proven to be a technically feasible way to grow salmon, various closed systems are currently being tested to demonstrate viability at a commercial scale.
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    Net-Cage Farm
    The net-cage industry claims closed tanks use too much energy but when you add up all the environmental impacts of salmon aquaculture technology, net-cages are the least sustainable.
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    Marine Mammal
    The intractable environmental issues associated with open net-cages such as disease, escapes, pollution & predator impacts do not have effective solutions, nor are there any on the horizon.
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    Freshwater Institute
    If the industry continues to rear salmon, closed containment technology is clearly on a more responsible path for salmon aquaculture.
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    Call on the provincial gov’t to deny Mainstream’s tenure application for a new net-cage farm and to place a moratorium on net-cage tenures in BC »

    Sign our petition calling on the CGSB to stop the ‘organic’ certification of net-cage farmed salmon »

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    Media Release: New Canadian ‘Organic’ Aquaculture Standard Fails to Meet True Organic Principles

    Media Release: CAAR opposes planned open net cage salmon production increases

    News Update, February 2012: Grieg Seafoods charged in deaths of dozens of seals and sea lions. Get the details >>

    Media Release: Final Salmon Aquaculture Dialogue standards won’t solve threat to wild salmon

    CAAR Member Groups


    The Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform is a coalition of four leading environmental organizations working to transition the open net-cage salmon farming industry to more sustainable production methods. For more information on each organization, visit our websites.


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