The Facts On Fish Farms

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Maybe they wanted to get more fish for the buck. As Atlantic's are pretty tough,good jumpers and don't die after four years like most pacific species. I think they might be republicans. :lol:
from a reference source see below
Unlike the various Pacific salmon species which die after spawning semelparous, the Atlantic salmon is iteroparous, which means the fish may recondition themselves and return to the sea to repeat the migration and spawning pattern several times, although most spawn only once or twice.
D.D.
 
I'm curious why fish farms would raise a non native species like Atlantic salmon rather than coho or spring salmon?
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Its all about the money. The companies operating fish feedlots are from Norway and are experienced in raising Atlantic Salmon in pens. They did the same operation in Chile until the viral infections wiped them out. Now they are in BC doing the same thing, and will operate until the viral infections drive them to a new location.

Lets hope that they don't also wipe out the native Pacific Salmon with the infections.

In my opinion, its nuts to risk OUR northwest pacific coast salmon so those companies can make a buck.

Native salmon don't congregate in pens, so the virus has minimal impact in the wild. But when thousands of fish are penned up together, the virus runs rampant.

The BC and Canada government seem to be looking the other way and denying that there is any problem, but there are many fish pens up here in the Broughtons that are not in use due to infections.
 
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