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Hi Sandy & All, June 11, 2012
The question that nags is: Would salmon have declined to the same extent
(or nearly the same) if there had been no aquaculture ?
Public pressure (perhaps misinformed pressure) may force the industry
to undergo a modern version of ordeal by water; the original being you are
innocent if you sink and drown but if you rise alive to the surface then you
are guilty and burned at the stake. So this is not just an academic
question.
Drawing on memory, e.g. poor salmon runs in some NB rivers as early as
1950 led to a program to control Mergansers way before farmed salmon (I
think). Also salmon runs along the South and Eastern shore have been in
decline for 5 decades or more. how can aquaculture have caused this ? Have
acid rain and overfishing in the ocean had no effects after all ?
Assuming that sea lice and escaped farmed salmon adversely affect wild
stock should not the emphasis be on solving these problems ?
Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Hiltz" <birddog@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 7:21 AM
Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Farmed Salmon
> Hi Dave,
>
> There is ample evidence of a steep decline in wild salmon stocks, both
> here
> and in Europe, with the evolution of salmon aquaculture.
> Salmon stocks were healthy in the inner Bay of Fundy in rivers like the St
> John and Little Salmon rivers in New Brunswick and the Stewiacke in Nova
> Scotia prior to open pen salmon farming.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
> On Behalf Of David & Alison Webster
> Sent: June-09-12 9:12 PM
> To: NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: [NatureNS] Farmed Salmon
>
> Dear All, June 9, 2012
> There has been numerous articles and letters recently about open-pen
> Salmon farms. One in particular caught my eye (June 9, CH, Jim Gourlay)
> "...proven devastation of wild Atlantic Salmon stocks wherever open-pen
> salmon aquaculture has been sited..."
>
> As I recall, salmon stocks were in very bad shape before culture of
> salmon was initiated; culture of salmon being a way to offset the shortage
> of wild salmon and take some pressure off of these wild stocks that were
> probably being overfished off Greenland.
>
> Are there really examples of abundant salmon stocks in areas where
> there
> has been no open-pen salmon farming ?
>
> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
>
>
>
>
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