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While the Canadian government continues to drag its feet with regards to ISA, and the media is reporting that ISA may have been present in BC waters since the early 2000s, American senators are working quickly to commence an independent investigation into the presence of ISA stating “We should not rely on another government — particularly one that may have a motive to misrepresent its findings — to determine how we assess the risk ISA may pose to American fishery jobs.” A regional approach, led by people on both sides of the border in the Pacific Northwest and far removed from Ottawa, is our best hope in legitimately assessing the presence of ISA in BC, and preventing a potential catastrophe. More »

Infectious Salmon Anemia (ISA), a highly contagious virus that resulted in the 2007/08 collapse of the Chilean salmon farming industry, as well as problems in other salmon farming regions, has been detected for the first time in the North Pacific. More »

The disease and aquaculture hearings at the Cohen Inquiry have come to a close. While it wasn’t expected that a “smoking gun” would emerge during the hearings with headlines splashed all over the news, the victories for those working to protect BC’s wild salmon from the impacts of net-cage salmon farming were in the quality of information submitted as evidence that is now in the public domain, and available on the Cohen Commission website. More »

The Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon began hearing evidence on disease and aquaculture last week. CAAR members will be on the stand next week between September 6th and 8th. More »

The Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River will begin evidentiary hearings on the issue of aquaculture next month. Evidentiary hearings began in October 2010 and have already covered such issues as the Fraser sockeye life cycle, perspectives on conservation, sustainability and stewardship, enforcement, Aboriginal law as it relates to the sockeye fishery as well as the organizational structure, science and funding of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. More »

Please help stop this farm and make it clear to the salmon farming industry that closed containment is the only future for aquaculture in BC. More »

Mainstream Canada has submitted a tenure application to the provincial government for a new open net-cage salmon farm located in Clayoquot Sound. If approved, and then licensed by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the site would add about 600,000 more farmed salmon to the area that is designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. More »

On May 2nd, help make sure we elect a government that will protect wild salmon and support the transition from destructive net-cage salmon farming to more sustainable closed containment technology. More »

A large number of Fraser sockeye salmon are dying en-route to their spawning grounds, and stresses induced from warmer water temperatures are a factor. Salmon do well in temperatures around 16 degrees but over the past 20 years, the temperature of the Fraser River has increased by about 2 degrees resulting in warmer waters at migration time. However, another piece to this puzzle was revealed in the inquiry: a purported virus linked to the en-route deaths. More »

Closed containment technology was the hot topic at the 2011 Seafood Summit and CAAR, along with Tides Canada, organized one of the most well attended panels of the event: The Next Generation of Salmon farming - Exploring the Business of Land-Based Closed Containment Aquaculture. More »