Fish farm opponents take challenge to Oslo

Peter McMullan
May, 2009
Chasing Silver International Fly-fishing Magazine 

Opponents of open net-cage fish farming off the coast of British Columbia, Canada’s most westerly province, will be attending two important company annual general meetings being staged in May in the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Opposition concerns are based on the linkage between fish farms, stocked with thousands of Atlantic salmon, sea lice and the deadly threat these parasites pose to wild Pacific salmon smolts migrating through areas where the many farms are located.

Norwegian companies, in particular Marine Harvest and Cermaq, which in turn owns Mainstream Canada, dominate the fish farm industry in British Columbia. Together they hold 108 licenses. When added to the 17 licenses of a third Norwegian company, Grieg Seafood, it means the Scandinavian country controls 92% of the industry off Canada’s west coast.

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