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CAAR has developed a list of requirements for sustainable aquaculture.
In order to protect wild salmon, coastal ecosystems, coastal communities
and human health from destructive fish farming practices the industry
must:
- Develop technology that eliminates the risk of disease transfer to wild fish and escapes of salmon into the wild;
- Guarantee fish farm waste is not released into the ocean;
- Label all farmed fish so consumers can make informed choices;
- Develop fish feed that does not deplete global fish stocks;
- Ensure that wildlife is not harmed as a result of fish farming;
- Prohibit the use of genetically modified fish;
- Eliminate the use of antibiotics, biocides and harmful chemicals in fish farming; and
- Respect the views of coastal residents by not locating salmon farms where First Nations or other local communities object.
Closed Containment Technology On the Way
Many in British Columbia and elsewhere are calling for the use of closed-containment systems to stop the spread of disease
from farmed fish to wild populations, and see the closed systems as a
way to reduce ocean waste and other environmental impacts that come
with growing fish in o
pen-net pens.
While there are no farmed salmon currently available from closed containment systems, a commercial scale project is underway in British Columbia. The company, Middle Bay Aquaculture Institute, has previous experience with raising salmon using closed containment technology and will have product available by 2008 with expanded production by 2009. Public support of this project will help encourage greater production and supply using this more sustainable system.
"The large B.C. salmon farming companies are going to be watching this pilot
project closely, said Institute board member John Moonen in an interview. “They’re watching it, they’re going to be the
beneficiaries,” he said. “We have to prove to them its economics, that’s part
of our goal. They are the ultimate consumer of these, the salmon aquaculture
industry.”
CAAR Transition Policy for Closed Containment
CAAR Closed Containment Briefing
Alternative Products
Healthy alternatives to farmed salmon include wild salmon and wild halibut from sustainable fisheries. Always make sure that you buy from sustainable fisheries.
SeaChoice Sustainable Seafood Guide
Living
Oceans Society cookbook, "Fish for Thought'
Georgia
Strait Alliance Guide
Friends of Wild Salmon
Sustainable Seafood Guides - United States
Audubon
Society list
Monterey
Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch
Seafood
Choices Sea Sense Database
Institute
for Agriculture and Trade Policy
