Farmed Salmon Escape

[nordicstallion]

Mmmmm, Victoria salmon crack!! Sounds like a double whammy, addiction wise!!! Maybe it will become available on a street corner!?

 

[hardee]

For those who would like to know more about the realities of farming fish (plus and minus), an excellent documentary was recently done by Frontline entitled "The Fish on my Plate".

I am usually skeptical about such "messing with nature", but I was pleasantly surprised by the many positive aspects of fish farming for the future. It is especially well managed by the Norwegians.

The Norwegians are the ones who brought fish farming in open pens to BC waters after the depletion of their local wild fish from diseases spread by the open water pens. No the same think is going on in BC waters. See this documentary:
https://www.mountainlifemedia.ca/2016/1 ... pulations/

and see some of the 2016 travels and findings of Alexandra Morton here:
https://thetyee.ca/News/2016/07/19/Sea- ... mon-Farms/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2016/08/02/Patr ... ra-Morton/

Obviously there are some folks making big $$$$ in the fish farming industry and there are governments, resources and wildlife paying the price.

Harvey
SleepyC:moon

 

[Marco Flamingo]

Years ago, my wife and I were anchored in Port Blakely when there was an accidental Atlantic salmon release. They swarmed into the headwaters of the bay and, because they are pen raised, couldn't figure out how to get back out for some reason. Fisheries put out a notice of a 2 or 3 fish limit and people started showing up. Best "lure" was something that looked like a deer turd, because that's what they are used to eating (the shape, not actually turds).

I caught a couple and ate part of one. The rest was crab bait. I don't know if they were triploid at that time, but whatever the reason, they were to Chinook salmon what Tang is to fresh orange juice.

I put some triploid oysters out on my beach a few years ago. The supposed benefit was that triploid oysters don't go through the regular "post breeding" cycle where the oyster is thin and watery because of all the energy spent in the summer orgy. Okay. Trouble is, they never got really fat in preparation for breeding. They were just always kind of thin and watery. My experience was that triploid solves a problem at the expense of edibility.

Mark

 

[starcrafttom]

up date on the release. total salmon escaped ?? maybe 5000. Another totally media hyped non event.

 

[hardee]

Admission on the news tonight "It was not eclipse related high tides" and that the water levels were actually lower than had been previously recorded. Also, that DFW was now looking into the Cook's procedures as possibly causative.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

 

[Jazzmanic]

up date on the release. total salmon escaped ?? maybe 5000. Another totally media hyped non event.

Sorry Tom. The Seattle Times reports the escapement number is much higher than the 5,000 originally reported. It says the farm held more than 300,000 and several net pens were damaged. "It's basically a salvage operation. The numbers started out low and we don't know the full number but there is clearly a lot out there. Very, very much more." I'm guessing closer to 100,000 +.

So it's a real event, not a non-event. Time to start fishing!

Peter

 

[Pandion]

I do not buy fish unless its that place in Victoria, because that stuff is like crack.

Tom, what place is that?

 

[Jazzmanic]

BTW, the quote comes from the net pen company's spokesperson. Not "fake" news, real news.

 

[chromer]

Heard at Ace Hardware yesterday - throw handful or gravel in water and the stupid fish come to it.

 

[Jazzmanic]

Quite a haul!

I copied these pics from a fishing site. It looks like some are doing quite well on catching these guys.


The poster said "I think looking for them on the troll and then casting Buzz Bombs and Spinners while chucking pea gravel"


The poster and catcher of the pic above said "We did not have any deformities that we could see and the meat looked good. We anchored up in 10 FT of water near the shore and used Jigs tipped with PowerBait balls."

In the words of Artie Johnson...very interesting
Fish On!

Peter

 

[localboy]

Some honkers there. I'd smoke them.

 

[localboy]

http://mynorthwest.com/730109/uw-pr...t-companys-claim-of-what-caused-salmon-spill/

The plot thickens. Now they are saying the entire aqua farm is falling apart.

 

[hardee]

http://mynorthwest.com/730109/uw-pr...t-companys-claim-of-what-caused-salmon-spill/

The plot thickens. Now they are saying the entire aqua farm is falling apart.

From what I saw on the 6PM News, with a pictures of the nets and tug pushing them together, it looked pretty trashed.

Personnally I think this is great timing, because they want to put one in at Port Angeles too, and this may help bring some public awareness to some of the hazards.

Like the Biologist said on the news tonight, the place for farmed fish is in land based tanks, not open water pens.

Harvey
SleepyC :moon

 

[westward]

To quote our friend Tom: "Another totally media hyped non event."

Seems like I'm hearing this line a lot recently....

-Mike

 

[Spike]

I wish people would be this up in arms over global warming or the huge cuts in the EPA as proposed by the clown we have in the White House. Those two items will have a much greater impact on native salmon stock than the accidental release of farmed fish

 

[localboy]

Whoa. I think the only clown we had in the WH left and is now a multi, MULTI millionaire...

Who said crime doesn't pay.

 

[Larry H]

Do you think the current clown (who claims to be a billionaire) didn't get rich by criminal means? Like not paying his suppliers?

 

[Spike]

Well Larry, I for one cant answer your question. I'm still waiting to see King Donnie's tax returns

 

[olsurfdog]

Come on gang--lets just stay away from this politics stuff. Snide little side remarks (on either side) don't help.