Fishing planet alberta salmon fish times1/20/2024 ![]() ![]() Salmon farming is now a global business worth US$20-billion a year and dominated by a few multinational companies, including Cooke Aquaculture in New Brunswick. Canada’s iconic fish has become an industrial commodity, like feedlot cattle and factory chickens. In their place have come farm-raised Atlantic salmon, which now account for as much as 90 per cent of the world’s salmon consumption. ![]() In recent decades, wild Atlantic and Pacific salmon have almost disappeared from Canada’s rivers and oceans – victims of habitat destruction, overfishing and climate change. At that crowded event, we heard experts, fishermen and neighbours voice concerns about plans to locate as many as 20 salmon farms along our stretch of coastline. ![]() We stumbled upon that reality in January, 2020, when we attended a public meeting near our home in Nova Scotia. ![]()
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