petition against salmon farms

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#1 Post by **corbyeire** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 3:49 pm

this group has a petition to sign against open fish farms and bad farming practices - its to be sent to the CEOs of the two largest fish farming corporations

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/674505931

#2 Post by **The Austrian** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:35 pm

I have signed the petition, but I couldn't find out if they run any fish farms here in Ireland yet or do they plan to do so in the near future?

#3 Post by **mickmick** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 4:58 pm

It says on the site...'Two companies -- Marine Harvest and Cermaq -- are the world's largest salmon producers, with open net cage operations in Norway, Scotland, Ireland, Chile and Canada.'
I've signed it too, the sea trout stocks in the West of Ireland are a tiny fraction of what they were. In large part, due to the sea lice infestations caused by these farms.

#4 Post by **The Austrian** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:28 pm

thank you mickmick, here the link to their Irish operations: http://www.marineharvest.com/en/About-M ... 1/Ireland/

#5 Post by **fishermannum1** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:51 pm

signed it................

#6 Post by **James Barry** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:22 pm

done..

#7 Post by **doggie3131** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 7:04 pm

cheers martin for that link,four in clew bay :shock:

signed..

#8 Post by **youngrod** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:39 pm

i don t mean to be thick :oops:

but if they are farming fish then they aren t depilting the wild stocks of fish

#9 Post by **The Austrian** » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:15 pm

youngrod wrote:i don t mean to be thick but if they are farming fish then they aren t depilting the wild stocks of fish

While some believe that fish farming is the solution to overfishing, they do not take into account the inherent inefficiency of animal agriculture. Just as it takes 12 pounds of grain to produce a pound of beef, it takes 70 wild-caught feeder fish to produce one salmon on a fish farm. Time magazine reports that it takes 4.5 kg of ocean-caught fish to produce 1 kg of fishmeal that is fed to a fish on a fish farm.

More here:
http://www.natural-and-organic-choices. ... farms.html
http://animalrights.about.com/od/animal ... arming.htm
http://ecohealth101.org/whats_left/eat7.html
http://www.seafoodwatch.org/cr/cr_seafoodwatch/issues/

#10 Post by **Tomaszek** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 7:56 am

@youngrod take a look here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77bs2aploI

#11 Post by **fishermannum1** » Wed Nov 11, 2009 6:10 pm

youngrod wrote:i don t mean to be thick but if they are farming fish then they aren t depilting the wild stocks of fish

[quote="Tomaszek"]@youngrod take a look here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B77bs2aploI[/quote

well there is the proof :shock:

, and its a real eye opener. these farms should be closed down.

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