Sos Closed Containment Salmon Farming Project

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SOS is a solution oriented conservation organization opposed to open net salmon farming mostly because of the sea lice issue. They have put their money where their mouth is by partnering with a First Nation on a pilot land based closed containment farm to be built on Vancouver Island. Sorry if the links on the news release below don't work . Check www.saveoursalmon.ca

 

 

 

 

Update: 'Namgis Land-Based Atlantic Salmon Recirculating Aquaculture System Pilot Project

 

The ‘Namgis Closed Containment Project has received a fair amount of media coverage lately as a result of the January 9th funding announcement by the Honourable Keith Ashfield, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.

 

SOS is a Project partner with the ‘Namgis First Nation and in order to keep you abreast of the latest news, we provide you with links to some of the recent media coverage below:

 

• IntraFish; January 12, 2012; "Investors throw $7 million at land-based Atlantic salmon farming"

• Times Colonist; January 11, 2012; "Fish-farm pilot worth support"

• North Island Gazette, January 10, 2012; "Land-based fish farm gets $800,000 federal boost"

• Times Colonist; January 9, 2012; "Feds back plan for land-based salmon farming - First Nation will use funding to build a closed-containment pilot project"

• DFO Media Release; January 9, 2012; "Government of Canada Supports Jobs and Growth in B.C. Through Funding of Four Innovative Vancouver Island Aquaculture Projects"

For a full listing of media coverage related to the Project, click this link.

 

For the latest Project Backgrounder which includes a full listing of confirmed funders, see "Project Documents" at this link.

 

For a short video explaining the "Recirculating Aquaculture System" (RAS) technology that will be used in the Project, please click here. The video if from the Conservation Fund's Freshwater Institute in West Virginia. They are the world's leading research facility for RAS and their technical expertise is being made available to the 'Namgis Closed Containment Project through Tides Canada.

 

With regard to facility being built, the site is currently being cleared and construction is soon to begin. It's indeed a time of great progress for the Project and we wish to express our gratitude for the support that has brought us this far.

 

Thank you for your continued support and the shared belief that, in order to help save B.C.'s Wild Salmon, it is essential to prove that there is an environmentally sustainable and economically viable alternative to raising Atlantic salmon.

 

Best Regards,

Eric Hobson

President

The SOS Marine Conservation Foundation

 

 

Everything Depends on the Wild Salmon -

The Survival of Wild Salmon Depends On Us.

 

[BBBrownie]

Thanks for the update, moving to closed containment is such an important step in protecting wild salmon.