B.C. salmon farmers are celebrating their industry’s upgrade by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program, but the local seafood watchdog SeaChoice is raining on their parade.
Seafood Watch has rated B.C.’s farmed Atlantic salmon a “good alternative,” citing low pesticide use, fewer escapes and improved transparency.
And while the report notes that the industry is vulnerable to sea-lice infestation, “there is currently insufficient evidence to conclude that population-level impacts to wild salmon are occurring due to pathogen and/or parasite transfer from salmon farms.”
But that kind of uncertainty is unacceptable to SeaChoice — a coalition of the David Suzuki Foundation, Living Oceans and the Ecology Action Centre — which has its own seafood rankings and places B.C.-farmed Atlantic salmon on its ‘”avoid” list.
Randy Shore – Vancouver Sun – September 18, 2017.
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