• Healthy Fish
  • Life Cycle of Farmed Salmon
  • Salmon Breeding
  • Improved Feeds
  • Salmon Farm Management
  • Salmon Health Management
  • Infectious Salmon Anemia
  • Sea Lice
  • Aquaculture Bay Management Areas
• Quality Assured
  • Introduction
  • The Healthy Salmon Program
  • The Quality Management Program
  • Traceability Program
  • Farmed Salmon: Safety Approved
  • Farmed Salmon is Safe
  • Carotenoids: Essential for Normal Growth and Development
• Healthy Communities
  • Healthy Communities
• Healthy Industry
  • Healthy Industry
  • Canadian Production of Atlantic Salmon
  • New Brunswick Production
• Delicious/Nutritious
  • Why are so many people choosing farmed salmon?
  • Availability
  • Affordable
  • Consistent High Quality
  • Versatility
  • Convenient
  • Nutritious
  • Buying and Storing Farmed Salmon
  • Cooking Farmed Salmon
  • Cooking Method Determines Type of Seasoning
• Healthy Environment
  • Sustainability through Cooperation
  • Site Selection and Monitoring
  • Healthy Sites
  • Feed Monitoring
  • Improved Feed Digestibility Reduces Waste
  • Sustainable Management of Wild Populations
  • Fish Containment

Salmon Farmers Invest in Green Technology

Press Release Well Boat Will Reduce Therapeutant Use and Improve Sea Lice Management St George – The Ronja Carrier, chartered from the Norwegian company Solvtrans, will be in the Bay of Fundy for the next six months to help salmon farmers control sea lice on salmon farms. Salmon will be carefully pumped from the farm enclosure into the hold of the well boat where they will be immersed in a mixture of seawater and approved therapeutant to remove sea lice, a naturally occurring parasite. Fish are then returned to their enclosure. ....View More

NB Salmon Farmers Trigger Over Half A Billion Dollars of Economic Activity Across Canada

Press Release St. George, NB – Based on three key indicators – GDP, employment and labour income a new socio-economic report commissioned by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans demonstrates how the Canadian aquaculture industry generates over $2 billion annually for the national economy with New Brunswick triggering over half a billion dollars of economic activity across Canada. ....View More

Sea Lice Research Development Workshop Report Jan 2010

In 2009 NB DAA, in support of the aquaculture industry, applied to the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) for the Emergency Registration (ER) of two bath treatments, ALPHA MAX® and Salmosan®, as alternatives to SLICE® for sea lice treatment. ....View More

Healthy Communities

For many years, the traditional fisheries were not only an important contributor to New Brunswick’s economy but they were also an integral part of the cultural identity of its people. As a result, the declines in the wild fish stocks brought challenges to the Province’s economy as well as to its unique cultural heritage.

In the face of these challenges, the growth of the salmon farming industry has contributed greatly to an economic and a cultural revitalization of New Brunswick. The salmon farming industry currently supports over 4000 direct and indirect jobs. In addition to providing about $90 million in wages, the jobs have reawakened the pride within the people of New Brunswick for their heritage – and their ability to harvest the ocean’s bounty to feed the world.

While many of the jobs directly related to salmon farming occur in New Brunswick’s coastal communities, the success of salmon farming has created employment opportunities throughout the province in feed manufacturing, packaging, transportation, supply industries as well as spin-off jobs in the retail sector.

As the industry matures, an increasing number of industry jobs provide fulltime employment. In fact, over the past four years, the percentage of fulltime jobs in the industry has grown from 60% to almost 80%. With 75% of direct industry jobs held by individuals under the age of 40, this employment stability has reduced the need for young people to leave the province in search of work. As a result, young families are now investing their personal resources in their home communities – thereby further enhancing the economic benefits of a successful salmon farming industry.

The location of most of New Brunswick’s salmon farms along the shores of the Bay of Fundy has brought an economic transformation to many of Charlotte County’s coastal communities.

Once hard hit by unemployment, these communities have blossomed into vibrant contributors to the provincial economy. One-quarter of all private sector jobs in Charlotte County are related to salmon farming.

A large number of the salmon farming-related jobs in Charlotte County have been a result of the initiative shown by residents in creating a wide range of support businesses. According to Tony Whittaker of Human Resources Development Canada:

“An important factor in the success of the industry is how Charlotte County residents kept it their own; everything from feed production, to growout, to inventing and fabricating their own equipment – they didn’t farm any of it out”.

While the industry once marketed most of its product as whole fish, it now processes 40% of salmon into fillets, portions and other more consumer friendly products. Over the past 4 years, this increased processing has contributed to a 67% increase in the number of jobs in the processing sector.