In this area there is an on going battle between a fish farm and the local
inhabitants of the small cove where it is located.
(St. Margaret's Bay)
All the same concerns experienced on the West coast are felt here.
On the day before we brought the Mirage33 back from Mahone Bay and passed
through the area, a diver was killed at the site.

Gould 0738 wrote in message
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Environmentalists and the industry agree that the use of animal
antibiotics
and dioxins in farmed fish pose health concerns, seabeds are damaged by
fish
cages and farmed fish that escape can harm wild stocks.



Glad to see the article at least acknowledge those very real issues.

As it is presently carried out, fish farming is an enrivornmental
disaster. The
fish produced are so full of chemicals, it's a wonder they don't glow in
the
dark. The poop from 200,000 or more fish caged in a small net pen piles up
on
the seafloor and kills off all the organisms immediately below and for a
radius
around the operation.

Fish farmers up here often use Atlantic Salmon, not native to the NW.
Inevitably, some fish escape. These Atlantic salmon
compete with the remaining wild fish for food. Atlantic salmon escaped
from
pens do not reproduce, so they reduce the number and health of wild fish
by
competing for food and contribute nothing to replenishing stocks through
eventual reproduction.

Fish farming is common around here. Most of the major food stores now make
sure
that salmon offered for sale is prominently labeled "wild" salmon if it
isn't
farmed. I try to avoid buying aquacultured fish.
The majority of our restaurants serve faux fish from farms.