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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.
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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
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Farmed Salmon is Safe Persistent organic pollutants (POP’s) - like PCB’s and dioxins - are produced by many industrial processes. Increasingly stringent controls on industrial pollution and waste management have reduced the release of POP’s into the environment. However, because these pollutants break down very slowly, POP’s released in the past are still detectable in trace amounts in the air, water, soil and living organisms in virtually all parts of the global ecosystem.
When an animal eats, it may unavoidably ingest POP’s; since POP’s are not broken down by an animal’s metabolic processes, they become stored in its fatty tissues. These POP’s then move up the food chain when this animal is eaten by a predator.
Like many living organisms, both wild and farmed salmon contain POP’s – in fact, science has shown that wild and farmed fish grown in the same area have virtually identical levels. The POP’s in wild salmon come from the small crustaceans and fish that they feed upon; those in farmed salmon come from the small fish used to make salmon feed. Studies by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency demonstrate that POP levels in fish feed would not cause farmed salmon POP levels to exceed the Canadian Guidelines for Chemical Contaminants and Toxins in Fish and Fish Products.
The manufacturers of salmon feed are striving to reduce POP levels even further. Feed manufacturers now try to obtain the raw products for salmon feed from geographic areas known to have comparatively low POP levels. As well, the industry is currently establishing methods to substantially cleanse POP’s from fish oil used for salmon feed. Further reductions in the POP content of farmed salmon may be achieved through the use of vegetable oils, in combination with fish oil, in the manufacture of salmon feed.
Many scientific studies have found that POP levels in wild and farmed salmon are so low that they must be measured in picograms (one millionth of a millionth of a gram) per kilogram of fish. After reviewing this scientific evidence, the World Health Organization, Health Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the US Food and Drug Administration have concluded that the POP levels in farmed and wild salmon are well within the levels determined to be safe for human consumption.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency continues to regularly test farmed salmon for POP levels and consistently finds that the levels fall far below the standards set by the Agency.
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