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!
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2:32 am PDT, Mar 19,Sarah Appleton, United Kingdom
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10:17 am PDT, Mar 18,K M, Canada
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2:29 pm PDT, Mar 14,Blaire MacNicol, Canada
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1:57 pm PST, Mar 13,Name not displayed, Tennessee
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10:40 am PST, Mar 11,Deanna Zimmerman, Georgia
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7:23 am PST, Mar 11,Clare Dyas, United Kingdom
please consider the welfare of the fish and the environment as well as the overall stocks of fish . Thank you
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7:46 pm PST, Mar 10,Sarah Stone, Canada
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12:57 am PST, Mar 4,Julia Maeder, Germany
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9:25 am PST, Mar 3,Barbara Watson, Canada
Even closed containment in the waterways is not acceptable. The navigational rights of all Canadians are being displaced by aquaculture farms. Enough is enough. Put them on the land with the other farms and keep our waterways clear and our wild salmon alive.
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9:43 pm PST, Mar 2,Julie Gabriele, Canada
I have significantly reduced salmon consumption since I have been advised of the environmental impact of aquaculture
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8:38 pm PST, Mar 2,Claude Tani, Canada
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11:10 am PST, Mar 1,Isabell Richter, United Kingdom
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12:25 pm PST, Feb 27,Maryam Beik Baghban, Iran, Islamic Republic Of
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9:06 pm PST, Feb 22,Michael Bryant, California
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2:42 am PST, Feb 20,Marta Dominguez, Spain
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10:03 am PST, Feb 18,Ellen Gutfleisch, Wisconsin
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9:43 am PST, Feb 18,Gabriella Rusticali, Italy
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6:25 am PST, Feb 18,Joseph Bewsher, New York
I was about to buy Fresh-Farm Raised Norwegian Salmon Fillet for $6.99 per pound and decided to look up information about the product. After reading about the effects of your production on the wild salmon I've decided not to buy and will not buy in the future until there is change in your practices to do NO HARM to wildlife. I will buy the more expensive wild salmon instead.
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9:47 pm PST, Feb 17,Rosemary Rannes, New Hampshire
“Norwegian-owned salmon farms operating in our traditional territorial waters are killing wild salmon and strangling the lifeblood of our whole culture,” said Chief Bob Chamberlin, Chairman of the Musgamagw-Tsawataineuk Tribal Council. “There are 29 fish farm tenures in the territory of the Musgamagw-Tsawataineuk and these operations are in opposition to the Government of Norway’s support of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. Norway is a proud nation, but Norwegian salmon farming companies are bringing Norway into international disrepute.”
http://www.puresalmon.org/pr_16feb2010.html
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9:36 pm PST, Feb 17,Robyn Przypek, Colorado
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11:05 am PST, Feb 15,Kurt Valentine, Netherlands
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6:06 am PST, Feb 14,Lous Zurcher, Netherlands
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4:37 am PST, Feb 12,PAULA WOFFINDEN, United Kingdom
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12:13 pm PST, Feb 10,Janet Fiore, Illinois
Ewwwww! Dirty, dirty, dirty. I won't buy salmon.
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7:52 pm PST, Feb 8,Jan Fiore, California
Don't buy any salmon because I cannot figure out what is dirty and filthy and unethical/immoral.
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5:14 pm PST, Feb 8,Marianne Nicolson, Canada
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10:11 am PST, Feb 4,Zara Mora, California
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9:22 am PST, Feb 4,Rowena Buckley, United Kingdom
Help it. Plees.
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8:59 pm PST, Feb 2,Rose Becke, Australia
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3:29 pm PST, Jan 31,Name not displayed, California