In a new study, American fisheries scientists concur with their counterparts in Canada and Scotland that marine finfish aquaculture has little to no negative impact on wild stocks and whales.
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A new sweeping American study about open-net aquaculture in the Pacific Northwest shows once again that the claims being made by anti-salmon farm activists in Washington State and neighbouring British Columbia to be false.
The 215-page biological opinion by the Marine Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) found that marine finfish aquaculture in Puget Sound, has little to no negative impact on native species, such as endangered salmon, Orcas, or their habitats.
The conclusions are similar to nine-peer reviewed studies by scientists at Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) which found that salmon farms in BC’s Discovery Islands have less than a minimal impact on migratory stocks.
The NOAA study comes in the wake of a landmark 9-0 ruling, by the Washington State Supreme Court which recently ruled that claims about disease and sea lice impacting wild stocks, falsely and widely propagated by anti-fish farm activists in the Pacific Northwest, to be without merit.
Weeks earlier, a seven-decade aquaculture analysis conducted in Scotland also showed that salmon farms have nothing to do with declining wild stocks.
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