Fishing planet alberta atlantic salmon10/3/2023 Both wild- and farmed-salmon industries provide fish and create economic activity, but the province’s sports and commercial wild salmon fisheries and marine tourism contribute more to B.C.’s economy and quality of life than salmon farming. Salmon-farming shouldn’t be done at the expense of wild salmon. Disease from salmon farms is one risk to wild salmon that can be controlled. Pathogens may be a significant factor, although not all specifics about diseases are fully known. Justice Bruce Cohen’s Commission of Inquiry investigating the decline of Fraser River sockeye included pathogen risk - along with habitat loss, predation and contaminant exposure - as a factor in the 2009 sockeye collapse. More than 90 per cent of migrating juvenile salmon die before returning to freshwater to spawn, most in the first months after entering the ocean. All received a “red” or “avoid buying” designation. The Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch program recently released science-based ranking reports on open net-cage farmed salmon in B.C., Norway, Chile and Scotland.
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