March 11, 2022 CFSI Staff

US federal agency debunks fake claims by anti-aquaculture activists

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.

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… Read more

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