Canada

A cautionary fish tale
The Times-Picayune
December 17, 2007
The research, published in the journal Science, found that in some years, more than 80 percent of pink salmon that migrate past the farms were killed by sea lice, a parasite spread by the farmed fish.

Calling from the Coast
Video clips from Twyla Roscovich from Broughton Archipelago.

Chile

Report reveals problems with access to information, claims salmon group
FishUpdate.com
October 30, 2007
A transparency report commissioned by the Pure Salmon Campaign identifies critical gaps in existing Chilean laws and exposes weaknesses in Chile’s Freedom of Information (FOI) processes...

Food Giant Safeway Turns its Back on Chilean Salmon
The Patagonia Times
April 1, 2008
A recent spate of bad press is beginning to take a very real toll on Chile’s once booming salmon industry. This week, just days after publication of a scathing New York Times article, the U.S. supermarket chain Safeway went public with a decision to reduce purchases of Chilean raised salmon. Safeway is the third largest U.S. food retailer after Wal-Mart and The Kroger.

Antibiotics Found in Chilean Salmon
The Patagonia Times
April 30, 2008
A recent University Austral study confirmed antibiotic residues in locally farmed salmon that exceed levels tolerated by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.). Still, the antibiotic residues recorded in the study fall within levels allowed by Chilean government standards. The W.H.O. is combating the use of antibiotics in fish farming, arguing that their presence fosters bacteria resistance to antibiotics.

Norway

Lousy Salmon Causes an Upset
Inter Press Service
May 26, 2008
Sea lice from Norwegian-run salmon farms are killing off vital wild salmon stocks in Canada and Chile, according to a delegation that visited Oslo last week. It accuses Norway's government of complicity.

Norwegian King invited to British Columbia to Witness Effect of Fish Farms on Wild Salmon
Huffstrategy.com
June 6, 2008
Canadian First Nations Chief Bob Chamberlin will present a letter to Norwegian King Harald V inviting his Excellency to visit the Village of Gilford Island in BC to see the open net-cage farms of Norwegian salmon farming company Marine Harvest.

Farmed Salmon in Hot Water
Inter Press Service
July 2, 2008
Environmental damage, diseases or workers rights abuses are common at fish farms in Chile and Canada operated by the world's largest salmon company, according to activists.

United Kingdom

Salmon farming is a threat to healthy wild stocks
Sunday Herald
March 30, 2008
Scotland’s wild fish are increasingly being killed by lice leaking from salmon farms, new government research has revealed. But keeping them a safe distance apart has been deemed too costly and "logistically difficult" a solution.

Headless seals may have been shot
BBC News
May 20, 2008
The bodies were found close to Sron Salmon farm, based in the Lochalsh Marine Area of Conservation. Wildlife campaigners Advocates for Animals say it is thought that the animals' heads might have been removed either to hide the fact that the wrong calibre of gun was used or to try to hide the fact that they were shot at all.

New rules to curb Scottish seal killings
Fish Farmer Magazine
May 26, 2008
The move comes as two headless seals – one heavily pregnant, the other a juvenile – were discovered last weekend on a beach on Skye, The Independent on Sunday reported.

COAST asks questions in Oslo
The Arran Voice
July 24, 2008
At the MH headquarters, Sally Campbell presented a letter to the CEO of Marine Harvest on behalf of the Federation of Irish Salmon and Sea Trout Association in Ireland and the Save the Swilly campaign. She says she found a company still shirking its environmental responsibilities…

United States

Salmon Virus Indicts Chile’s Fishing Methods
The New York Times
March 27, 2008
Since discovering the virus in Chile last July, Marine Harvest has closed 14 of its 60 centers and announced it would lay off 1,200 workers, or one-quarter of its Chilean operation. Since the company announced last month that it would move south, to Aysén, the government has said the virus has spread there as well, in two outbreaks not involving Marine Harvest.

Safeway Restricts Purchases of Chilean Salmon
The New York Times
April 17, 2008
Safeway made its decision to restrict some purchases of Chilean salmon after an article on March 27 in The New York Times reported the spread of the virus and detailed concerns by biologists and environmentalists about the elevated use of antibiotics in the country’s salmon industry. The story also reported researchers’ claims that salmon farms were contaminating fishing waters and creating stresses that could be spawning illnesses in the fish.

Facing Deadly Fish Virus, Chile Introduces Reforms
The New York Times
September 3, 2008
During a visit to Chile in April, Food and Drug Administration inspectors found that at least one Chilean company was using ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug whose use is restricted in aquaculture in the United States, to try to control sea lice, said William Hubbard, a former F.D.A. associate commissioner who said he had spoken to a senior administration food official about the trip.