Expose Farmed Salmon and Demand Better Farming Practices
Target:Cermaq CEO, Mr. Geir Isaksen; Marine Harvest CEO, Ms. Ase Aulie Michelet Sponsored by:Pure Salmon Campaign
Fish farming practices differ sharply from country to country, making some types of farmed seafood unsustainable or unhealthy. Two companies -- Marine Harvest and Cermaq -- are the world's largest salmon producers, with open net cage operations in Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Chile and Canada. And two-thirds of salmon consumed in the United States is farm-raised. Salmon raised in open net farms pose several problems for the environment and public health:
* The waste from millions of captive fish empties directly into the ocean, polluting the water with untreated sewage, toxic chemicals and other wastes.
* Captive farmed salmon make ideal hosts for highly contagious diseases and parasites; escapees compete with and threaten wild salmon in British Columbia and Europe's wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout.
* As they grow, carnivorous and voracious farmed salmon need increasing amounts of wildcaught fish for food, thus competing directly with humans and fish species for this valuable yet diminishing resource. Currently, it takes the equivalent of five pounds of fish from the world's oceans to make one pound of farmed salmon.
This is unacceptable! Salmon can be farmed safely and with minimal ecological damage, if the industry adopts standards that protect the environment, consumers and local communities. Demand that the aquaculture industry adopt strong protections on salmon farms! Tell Marine Harvest and Cermaq it's time to clean up their act!
We took action on “Expose Farmed Salmon and Demand Better Farming Practices”!
# 11,576:
1:33 pm PST, Nov 20,Jocelyn Pachal, Michigan
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1:27 pm PST, Nov 20,CATHLEEN Hjalmarson, Canada
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12:58 pm PST, Nov 20,A Pemberthy, United Kingdom
I shall not be eating Marine Harvest & Cermaq farmed salmon until they clean up their act!.
# 11,573:
12:38 pm PST, Nov 20,Kathy Naifeh, Arizona
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12:30 pm PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
this is surely just common sense
# 11,571:
11:34 am PST, Nov 20,R S, New York
# 11,570:
11:22 am PST, Nov 20,Aya Ichikawa, California
# 11,569:
10:44 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Connecticut
SAVING OUR WILDLIFE, IS THE SAME AS SAVING MANKIND
# 11,568:
10:30 am PST, Nov 20,Eva Anna James, Canada
Dear CARE2:
I don't eat fish or meat products because I am vegetarian - but not yet the more difficult vegan. According to M.C.E.O. this is not much better because plants are living beings also - but at least it is an attempt to be better.
I sign this campaign anyway because I believe there should be much better protection for fish - including salmon and all other species.
Aevaa 20(12)
# 11,567:
10:22 am PST, Nov 20,MG Vezina, Canada
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10:10 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, Romania
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9:39 am PST, Nov 20,EUGENE BURLES, Canada
# 11,564:
9:22 am PST, Nov 20,C Fothergill, United Kingdom
I have lived on the West Coast of Scotland and the shellfish became toxic as a result of fish farming.
Fishermen had to stop fishing for shellfish as it was poisonous. Please adopt standards that make sure that salmon is farmed without harming other aquatic lifeforms.
# 11,563:
9:13 am PST, Nov 20,Michael Prinos, Illinois
# 11,562:
8:54 am PST, Nov 20,Solveig Nilsen, Norway
# 11,561:
8:53 am PST, Nov 20,Eloise Cortelyou, New Jersey
Please help protect our world by farming salmon safely!
# 11,560:
8:15 am PST, Nov 20,Neall Alden, Canada
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8:12 am PST, Nov 20,Carmen Rosas, Mexico
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7:41 am PST, Nov 20,Karen Vella Pace, Malta
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7:29 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
# 11,556:
7:00 am PST, Nov 20,Stephen Weatherby, Georgia
Salmon farming is disgusting.
# 11,555:
6:41 am PST, Nov 20,Name not displayed, United Kingdom
Salmon farming is disgusting.
# 11,554:
5:57 am PST, Nov 20,H 'Jay' Piper, South Carolina
This is not a responsible way to do business and it needsto stop. I never buy farmed fish.
# 11,553:
5:32 am PST, Nov 20,Leonardo Venegas, Chile
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5:29 am PST, Nov 20,Sarah Stapleton, Tennessee
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4:26 am PST, Nov 20,Jennifer Lindsay Rafael, California